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• Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A) Announces Top 12 Ventures for its 2019 Series-A Venture Showcase

  

  VC4A is proud to announce the 12 ventures (11 Series A and 1 Seed+) for its 2019 Venture Showcase. These companies selected represent the best investment opportunities on the continent. They have been vetted by 40 VC investors through a rigorous referral and selection process. The companies demonstrate strong revenues and competitive edge, are well-positioned…

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  September 30, 2019

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• Founder of AWP Network, Mary Olushoga to speak at the She-EO Conference in Maryland

  

  Mary Olushoga, Founder of AWP Network to speak at the She-EO 6.0 conference in Maryland. She-EO is a powerful, soul inspiring and life transforming experience for purpose driven women. It is a talk-show style experience, which features experts and “battle tested winners” whose stories, authenticity and experiences transform the lives of our audience, and inspire us…

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  September 30, 2019

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• Do you want to play a pivotal role in shaping a Feminist and Women’s Movement Action Plan for Beijing+25?

  

  Register now to join one of six Thematic Working Groups! As we prepare to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and Beijing Platform for Action, take stock of our progress toward achieving gender equality and examine the threats, barriers and gaps that remain, we do not want to reinvent the wheel. Let…

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  August 18, 2019

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• African Women Entrepreneurs Nominated for the 2019 AWIEF Awards

  

  The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF)  has announced the top finalists for its annual awards to celebrate women leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa. 22 women founders and entrepreneurs have been selected as finalists, from different African countries, across 8 different categories. The AWIEF Awards Panel of Judges is made up of high-calibre industry…

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  August 16, 2019

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• Call for Articles and Artwork – Center for Feminist Foreign Policy

  

  The Center for Feminist Foreign Policy’s print journal ‘Disrupted’ seeks to understand, challenge, and critique mainstream foreign policy through highlighting both experienced and emerging voices from across the globe. Feminist foreign policy is a relatively new political theory and praxis, and while several governments have implemented its methodologies, the surface has only just been scratched.…

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  August 16, 2019

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• WAAW Foundation to host Free Digital Skills Training

  

  WAAW Foundation in collaboration with Digivate 360 brings you a FREE Digital Skills Training – Boost Your Business with Facebook. This training session will avail business owners and startups the opportunity of acquiring skills needed to increase their reach & visibility to potential customers online, and also create a platform to network with like-minded entrepreneurs and business leaders.…

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  June 14, 2019

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• WorldRemit Launches New Service for SMEs

  

  WorldRemit has launched WorldRemit for Business, a new service that enables small and medium-sized business owners to quickly pay employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The platform will first be available to U.K.-registered businesses. WorldRemit’s low fees and exchange rates are shown up-front and customers can send money easily via the…

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  June 14, 2019

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• Startups Win $50,000 at the MEST Africa Pan-African Tech Summit in Nairobi

  

  This year’s Summit was held in partnership with Microsoft. Additional sponsors included Liquid Telecom, Africa’s Talking, Oracle, Intel, Lori Systems, Flutterwave, Stratlink, Ethiopian Airlines and a number of ecosystem partners. The Summit was held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Nairobi on Conference Day, and the Nairobi Garage, home of MEST Africa’s Nairobi Incubator, on…

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  June 14, 2019

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• MainOne to commit NGN25billion to digitization of Lagos State

  

  West Africa’s leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state through deployment of ubiquitous broadband infrastructure across the state. At the campaign launch organized in Lagos to announce its plans on Tuesday, Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer, MainOne,…

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  May 24, 2019

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• Wari enables customers to request its financial services on WhatsApp

  

  The introduction of MyWari on WhatsApp provides customers the convenience to transact and communicate directly as well as easily carry out all their operations. This Wari service on WhatsApp is currently available in the following languages: (French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) with Russian and Arabic coming soon. Wari caters to a broader customer base with the aim of enhancing…

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  May 24, 2019

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  Africa, African girls, African girls in technology, African Women Power Network, African youths, applications, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network. change, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Girls education, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Kenya, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nairobi, Nigeria, program, progress, science, small business, solutions, South Africa, STEM, STEM Camp for African girls, strategy, support, sustainability, techbiz, technology, The AWP Network, Unoma Odili, Unoma Okorafor, Waaw Foundation, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices