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Botswana has set up a Green Finance Working Group to help shape how banks and investors finance projects with environmental benefits.
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Ugandan agritech startup SANDI AI Technologies has won the 2026 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, receiving $50,000 in growth funding for its work using artificial intelligence and community financing to help smallholder farmers access irrigation and other agricultural infrastructure.
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US logistics-tech company Pigee has agreed to acquire a controlling 55% stake in Nigerian logistics startup ShipAfrica, giving the company an established operating base in one of West Africa’s largest markets.
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If an international company wants to collect payments from customers in Ghana, it needs a way to connect to the country's banks, mobile-money networks and other payment systems.
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Creditchek has bought Algosys, a Ugandan fintech that provides banking software to lenders, SACCOs and microfinance institutions.
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