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

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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

Have Fun - Do Good

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. One thing I am definitely going to do is write the book I've been kicking around for the last five years.

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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. Kene-Okafor today highlighted a Sudanese startup that is taking part in Y Combinator’s current batch. accelerator. Today in money raising money: Natasha Mascarenhas has a few notes on the site today that I think we should group.

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YC W22 batch nets 24 African startups, including 18 from Nigeria

TechCrunch

Location : Khartoum, Sudan. Quick thoughts : Sudan suffers from inflation and currency devaluation problems, like most African economies. Sudan’s first YC-backed startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021. Team size : 11. Website : [link]. Founded in : 2021.

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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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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. His campaign was successful. It is cool to see that happening.

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