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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Microsoft and International Institute of Communication and Development contributed to the development of the platform. Similar to the Seychelles, Mauritius is a tourism nation. It is not a surprise that the unemployment rate is 5.20%. To diversify the economy, the government put an emphasis on the services and sugarcane industries.

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[INTERVIEW] Zakaria Hersi, Founder Of Orten.io

YoungUpstarts

On one hand, he’s a tech innovator and entrepreneur whose creativity has earned him awards and accolades on two continents – Europe (Sweden, to be more exact) and Africa (eastern, and in countries like Nairobi, his native Somalia and Mauritius). Has the situation with the country’s tech startup community improved since then or not?

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