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• African Legal Support Facility Launches Certification Program for African Lawyers and Professionals

  

  The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) is a public international institution hosted by the African Development Bank Group. The Facility is dedicated to providing legal advice and technical assistance to African countries in the negotiation of complex commercial transactions, creditor litigation and other related sovereign transactions. The ALSF also develops and proposes innovative tools for…

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  October 25, 2018

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• The AWP Network Congratulates Winners of the 2018 Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition

  

  The AWP Network congratulates winners of the 2018 Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition.  Winners of the Competition were announced on October 6, 2018 at the Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin. Mary Olushoga, Founder of the AWP Network served as a judge at the event. The Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is a global program and an online platform to mobilize youth-led…

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  October 24, 2018

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• Meet the Young Entrepreneurs Up for the $100,000 Anzisha Prize

  

  Entrepreneurship is central to Africa’s economic growth and is one of the keys to unlocking job opportunities for young people across the continent. Today, Mastercard Foundation in partnership with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) is pleased to announce that 20 of Africa’s youngest and brightest entrepreneurs will join the Anzisha Fellowship–a lifelong affiliation that will help…

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  October 3, 2018

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• Government of Japan and the Austrian Government to Fund Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) Programs

  

  FAPA, of which the Government of Japan is a major donor, along with the Austrian Government and the African Development Bank, will contribute $923,570 and $988,202 to finance the Bank’s Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) programs, respectively. Both programs form key components of the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy, which invests in high-growth sectors…

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  September 25, 2018

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• Finalists Announced for the MIT (Zambezi) Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion

  

  The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation just announced the finalists of the 2018 edition of the Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prestigious competition, awarding a total of $200,000 in prizes, was established in 2015 to discover Africa’s most…

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  August 8, 2018

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• African Startup Winning! Accounteer Wins MEST Africa Challenge

  

  Yesterday, Nigeria’s Accounteer was awarded $50,000 in equity investment from the Meltwater Foundation, along with space and support from the MEST Incubator in Lagos. MEST expanded its footprint into Nigeria in 2015, Kenya in 2016, and South Africa and Cote d’Ivoire in 2017 by welcoming Nigerian, Kenyan, Ivorian and South African Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) into its…

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  June 22, 2018

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• Google Expands Its Launchpad Program for African Startups

  

  Google Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches top African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. The program, which runs for three (3) months and will operate out of Lagos, will over the next three (3) years provide African startups with over…

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  June 11, 2018

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• MasterCard Foundation Invests $500 million to Educate Next Generation of African Leaders

  

  The University of Pretoria (UP) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation (MCF) is delighted to announce MasterCard Foundation Scholarship commencing in January 2019. This scholarship is available for high achieving African students interested in studying at the undergraduate or postgraduate levels. The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program is a 10-year, $500 million global initiative to educate and…

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  June 5, 2018

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• FAPA Grant Will Support African Farmers

  

    Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) grant of US $1 million will help to increase affordability, accessibility and incentives for fertilizer use among smallholder farmers in Africa and expand the supply and distribution of fertilizer by leveraging investments. This grant is also intended to create over 1,000 jobs for women and youth. AFAP, the…

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  May 24, 2018

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• Africa Innovation Summit Announces Top 50 Innovations

  

  The Africa Innovation Summit (AIS) today announced the innovators selected from across the continent to exhibit their solutions at the forum, which will take place from 6 to 8 June 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda under the esteemed patronage of His Excellences President Paul Kagame and Pedro Pires (ex-President of Cabo Verde and 2011 Mo Ibrahim Laureate).…

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  May 23, 2018

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