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• NBA and Youtube Partner to Launch Live Games on League’s First Channel Dedicated to Fans in Sub-Saharan Africa

  

  The National Basketball Association (NBA) and YouTube has announced the launch of the NBA’s first YouTube channel dedicated to fans in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to featuring two live games per week in primetime for the rest of the 2018-19 season, including the Playoffs, Conference Finals and The Finals, the NBA Africa YouTube channel will…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Fintech company Amplify acquired by OneFi, fueling effort to shape Nigeria’s fintech infrastructure

  

  Amplified Payments Ltd, a fintech company that builds and facilitates payment solutions and digital financial transactions in Nigeria, has today announced its acquisition by One Finance Limited. The deal, completed for an undisclosed fee, took effect as of March 1st, 2019, and sees OneFi boost its financial services offering, as the company adds Amplify’s assets,…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Marriott Hotels brings TED Fellows Salon to Cape Town

  

  Marriott Hotels in partnership with TED, hosted its first TED Fellows Salon in Cape Town, South Africa, sparking conversations around Africa’s beauty, rich heritage and innovative spirit. Held at the Cape Town Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers, renowned TED Fellows, Kenyan musician Bill Sellanga and South African conservation biologist Steve Boyes, led the innovative and thought-provoking…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Teaching Women in Developing Countries How to Build Apps and Become Engineers

  

  Crowd Machine and the Vital Voices Global Partnership launched its Women in Application Development initiative. The initiative brings together women from nine developing countries to learn how to develop applications using Crowd Machine’s free, online learning platform, Crowd Academy. Crowd Machine enables anyone to create applications even if they do not know how to code.…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Call for African and Diaspora Small and Medium Size Entrepreneurs (SMEs) who want to Grow

  

  The Citizens and Diaspora Directorate (CIDO) of the African Union Commission invites African and Diaspora entrepreneurs to participate in the Scaling Up Your Business Bootcamp. WHERE: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania WHEN: April 27 – 29, 2019 The Bootcamp offers fifteen (15) African and Diaspora Small and Medium Size Entrepreneurs an opportunity to acquire the tools…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Apply: Stanford Seed Transformation Program for African Entrepreneurs

  

  The Stanford Seed Transformation Program is a 12-month, intensive leadership program for established business leaders which includes four, week-long immersive sessions spread over a six month period. Designed specifically for business owners, the program is delivered in-country (Accra, Ghana) and led by Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty. The goal: is to create a detailed action plan…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Apply: Urban Tech Accelerator Program

  

  The Urbantech program is a global accelerator program for startups within the urban tech space. Together with the partners of the program, startups will scale their businesses and further the development of sustainable cities. The program will run through 2019-2021, admitting 10 startups in each cycle. The program is structured like a traditional accelerator with…

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  March 23, 2019

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• Ideation Hub Africa to Host Women in Development Summit

  

    WHEN: Thursday, 28th March 2019 at 10 a.m.WHERE: LCCI Conference and Exhibition Center, VI, Lagos Register for the event here: Women in Development Summit The Summit, is one of Nigeria’s leading high-octane networking conference for women working across the globe on development and social change in NGOs, social enterprise, tech-startups, CSR Divisions, the public…

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  March 21, 2019

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• “Merck More Than a Mother” Fashion Awards in partnership with the First Lady of Zambia and Zambia Fashion Week

  

  Merck Foundation invites application from all fashion designers of Zambia to create a design with the aim to break the stigma around infertility in Zambia and rest of Africa. Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany announces the call for application of “Merck More Than a Mother” Fashion Awards in partnership with H.E.…

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  March 18, 2019

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• Nigeria’s OneFi secures $5mn debt facility from Nairobi-based Lendable

  

  One Finance Limited [OneFi] today announces that it has secured a $5M debt facility for its consumer facing platform, Paylater. The facility comes from New York and Nairobi-based Lendable, a technology-enabled funding provider to African consumer and SME lenders. The debt facility will be used to deploy more loans to Paylater customers, specifically through a…

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  March 11, 2019

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