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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. We are confident of Pula’s potential for growth in spite of the pandemic and look forward to partnering with them as they execute the next phase of their journey,” he said in a statement. million farmers.

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Digital bank Umba raises $15M, plans to expand into three new African markets

TechCrunch

fintech with operations in Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya. The founders told TechCrunch that they have made several key hires for Umba’s new phase of geographical growth, including the ex-CFO of Interswitch and senior staff from Zynga.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

So, to help these ideas come to life, our next phase will focus on working directly with farmers and those in the field to get their feedback, and shape a useful, scalable, sustainable solution. These ideas are just the start. In order to make them successful, we need the input of those using a potential solution. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Using GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 to Apply Text-defined Data Quality Checks on Humanitarian Datasets

Towards Data Science

Datasets like ‘mozambique-attacks-on-aid-operations-education-health-and-protection’, have a mix of data files related to both healthcare and attacks. So assuming one category per dataset might not be the best way to frame the problem, datasets are reused across categories.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

and you kind of go through your rebel phase. But then you go overseas, and my experience, in Israel and Palestine and London and South Africa, Mozambique, people ask you, "What the heck are you doing over there? The other thing is that a lot of folks, I think when you're young it's like, oh yeah, you kind of hate the U.S.,

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