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Partner UpdatesWill Africa rise to the challenge of green entrepreneurship?
According to FAO, Africa’s agricultural productivity is low, as the continent’s crop yields have lagged behind the rest of the world. Alth…
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EntrepreneurshipOrange & GIZ ‘GreenAPI Smart Agriculture Program’ applications for Senegal and West Africa now open
The ‘GreenAPI “Smart Agriculture’ program will provide wider and better access to smart agriculture services for smallholder farmers, companies, and o…
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EntrepreneurshipTech54 – Dakar’s digital destiny
This April on Tech54, the bi-monthly newsletter from the African Business magazine and Briter Bridges, which covers all the major …
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EntrepreneurshipSenegal’s Kwely emerges winner of the 2022 MEST Africa Challenge
The female-founded startup emerged as the winner out of four other startup finalists from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
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Case studiesVC4A launching Senegal research report: startup ecosystem starting to pick up the pace again
Senegal presents the most vibrant startup ecosystem of the francophone West Africa region with decent Internet connectivity, strong technical educatio…
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EntrepreneurshipCoinAfrique raises € 2.5 million and boosts its development in French-speaking Africa
CoinAfrique, the most downloaded classifieds app in French-speaking Africa, aims to exceed 10 million monthly users by 2022. The classifieds ads platf…
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Case studiesVC4Africa launches third generation platform, a global community for African startups
VC4Africa is pleased to present to you its third generation website. Read more about the background of the organization and some of the thinking
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Entrepreneurship
Video: VC4Africa Nairobi meetup and the need for Angel Investors in the African startup space
This year’s second VC4Africa meetup in Nairobi that was held last week turned out the be one of the most international editions so far.
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Entrepreneurship
Startup Weekend Dakar connects Francophone Africa to international startup scene
This is a guest post written by Yann Le Beux, @CTICDakar – Incubator and Accelerator In recent years, Africa as a whole has experienced an
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Entrepreneurship
Senegal host to first Startup Weekend in Francophone Africa
During the presidential elections of last weekend the world was looking at Senegal and many observers were surprised when Wade handed over the power
