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Could this rare bean be the solution to the global coffee crisis?

Fast Company Tech

The farmer had never grown coffee in her village in western South Sudan, but now hopes a rare, climate-resistant species will help pull her family from poverty. Native to South Sudan and a handful of other African countries, including Congo, Central African Republic, and Uganda, excelsa is also farmed in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

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Sudan Activist Conference Call: What You Can Do to Make a Difference in Darfur

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In an effort to understand why the violence there is still happening, and what I can do to help, I've called in for two of the monthly conference calls for Sudan Activists produced by ENOUGH , the Genocide Intervention Network , STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition , and the Save Darfur Coalition.

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President's Update

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For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Guatemala has a sad history of large scale human rights abuse. Last year, the National Police archive was discovered, with an estimated 80 million pages of documents.

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Why Nigeria leads the way in YC’s participation in Africa

TechCrunch

It’s not a coincidence that TechCrunch has covered more African startups in the last year than any period in our history. Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene in Africa, collecting more than $1.8

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Daily Crunch: Discord and Spotify resuming service after widespread outage

TechCrunch

It turns out that Bloom, the company in question, is the first startup from Sudan to take part in the U.S. state governments fell prey to hacking from China’s APT41 group, which, we’re sure, will aid in trade talks between the two nations. accelerator. The first is Lolita Taub putting together a new venture firm called Ganas Ventures.

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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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Some of the programs that we have currently running are the Sudan Divestment Task Force , which is leading up the campaign to divest state pensions from companies doing business in Sudan on a recently passed Federal legislation to ban future state contracts. From there, I moved into the position of National Outreach Coordinator.

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

Rob is the kind of person who knows how to get a shipping container out of a combat zone: a civil engineer, history buff, and self-described “old cold warrior” in his 70s, now helping to care for his dying, wheelchair-bound wife on their property in the mountains of a red state. What do you got in the national stockpile?