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MFS Africa collects $100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region

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The way we take for granted the fact that we can communicate with anybody around the world via a mobile phone, my dream is that it should be the same with a mobile wallet,” CEO Okoudjou told TechCrunch during an interview. “If With MFS Africa, Okoudjou envisions the same for payments on the continent.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

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Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. Challenges and issues.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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CH: Our headquarters office here in Oakland is staffed entirely by volunteers, and I always like people to know that of all of the foundation dollars, and donations and grant money that comes in, I divert 94% of it to our in-country operations. We have $2 donors out of Zimbabwe and $20,000 donors out of San Francisco.

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Mosqitter’s machine murders mosquitos with much mirth

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It is hoping to start scaling up manufacturing in the local areas where the machines will be most needed, including Italy, India and Zimbabwe. Perhaps most impressively, the company has accomplished all of this on a shoestring budget.

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Construction insurance company Billy raises additional $2.5 million

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Nyasha Gutsa and Grant Robbins started the company in 2020 as a pandemic project. Born in Zimbabwe, he was a childhood pen pal of the late Michael Tyler Fisher , a member of the billionaire Fisher Family real estate dynasty. “This moment represents the culmination of a journey that started in Harare, Zimbabwe,” Gutsa said.

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Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco

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Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. The Global Fund for Women advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. In this case, the girls were using poetry.