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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

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When word reached Senegal of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, health practitioners in the country immediately thought back to what happened during the Ebola crisis of 2014.”There Senegal’s dashboard to track COVID cases and health center visits (courtesy of PATH). Neal Myrick. Kristin Adderson. June 13, 2021.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

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When word reached Senegal of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, health practitioners in the country immediately thought back to what happened during the Ebola crisis of 2014.”There Senegal’s dashboard to track COVID cases and health center visits (courtesy of PATH). Neal Myrick. Kristin Adderson. June 13, 2021.

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Senegal’s logistics tech startup Chargel raises $2.5M seed funding

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We realized that there were so many inefficiencies, and that the logistics sector in Senegal was so fragmented, but we felt that technology could help. This year we are opening up the platform to more shippers in Senegal. Senders are able to track their goods while on the move, and receive notifications once delivery is done.

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Senegalese logistics and delivery company PAPS raises $4.5M led by 4DX Ventures and Orange

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PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics services. PAPS also provides merchants with visibility features to track and know the status of deliveries from takeoff to the point of destination. Today the company is announcing that it has raised a $4.5

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Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021

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This year, we’ll be looking at figures from data-tracking publications: Briter Bridges , Partech and The Big Deal , and not media ones, for the sake of cohesiveness. It’s important once again to underline that these deal-tracking publications use contrasting methodologies in their reports. billion to $1.5 Methodologies.

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Google to offer 40,000 developer scholarships in Africa; continues accelerator program

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Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. It expects to also select startups from additional countries, including Egypt, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, for this sixth cohort.

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500 Global, GIZ establish bootcamp for accelerators in Africa to help them define sustainable business models

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Fifteen accelerators from key tech hubs, including Uganda, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania will participate in the program. 500 Global’s take on the rising competition among startup accelerators.

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