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

Transformify

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. million and unemployment rate of just 3.4%, Rwanda is close to the top of the list. With a population of 11.4

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country.