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Did you know that over 525 million people used the internet in Africa in 2019? If current growth trends continue, almost 75% of Africans are expected to come online by 2030.
African Changemaker
Aziz is a Senegalese fintech entrepreneur on a mission to build the next African PayPal by providing daily services, including payment solutions and an artificial intelligence-based personal assistant.
He is doing this through PayDunya, a Dakar-based Pan-African payments champion he co-founded in 2015.
PayDunya facilitates the sending and receiving of payments on a website or mobile application and the collection and disbursement of bulk payments. Having missed the turning point of the industrial revolution, Aziz believes Africa mustn’t miss out on the digital one.
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Swedfund, Sweden’s development finance institution, has committed $12 million to the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund II (ARAF II).
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British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has committed $20 million to the Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF), strengthening efforts to mobilize long-term private capital for critical infrastructure projects across Africa.
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has finalized a loan of up to $15 million to South Africa’s Biologicals and Vaccines Institute (Biovac), supporting the construction of a new multi-vaccine manufacturing facility in Cape Town that is expected to strengthen Africa’s vaccine production capacity and reduce the continent’s heavy dependence on imported vaccines.