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Nigerian digital bank Yep! raises $1.5M pre-seed for its ‘financial super app’ play

TechCrunch

Founded by Olaoluwa Awojoodu , the company’s agent banking platform, PayCentre Africa, is present in Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo. The founders say they’re in discussions with international credit providers to increase this to $10 million by the end of 2022. is testing out remittance products.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

International. Clic Vert is a significant international environmental and ICT for development project that is not well known outside of France and Africa. It reclaims IT components like capacitors, batteries, lamps, and so on. The organization collects office waste discards nationally. Connecting Big Companies and Charities.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. In India, the most populated country in the world, some 600 million people will feel unprecedented heat outside this niche. The Arctic is predicted to be practically ice-free during summertime. In other regions, like the U.S.

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Report: Conflict Has 114 Million People Displaced

The NonProfit Times

Long-established tenets of international human rights and humanitarian laws are being flouted. Gabon and Niger had military coups in 2023, completing a “coup belt” that stretches coast-to-coast across Africa, according to the report’s authors. More than 114 million people are now displaced, according to data from CIVICUS.

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Green Technology Summit Heads to Europe (and It's Kind Of a Big Deal)

Tech Soup

It's been 12 years since our own Jim Lynch teamed up with Willie Cade at PC Refurbishers and Recyclers to start the very first International Computer Refurbishers Summit (ICRS). Getting the International Computer Refurbishers Summits Started. Million Ton Problem. ICRS Goes to Europe. spanhidden.

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