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Flutterwave and PayPal collaborate to allow African merchants to accept and make payments

TechCrunch

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. And according to its website, only 12 African countries can send and receive money on the platform, but to varying degrees.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

Due to unfriendly regulations, business and tax conditions, Nigerian startups are increasingly incorporating their startups abroad and other African countries like Seychelles and Mauritius. This speaks particularly to the absence of Nigeria as a primary location for incorporation.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

projects that the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Saint Martin, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos, and Tuvalu will see at least 5% of their territories permanently inundated by the end of the century.

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84% of the planet’s coral is now impacted by the worst reef bleaching event ever

Fast Company Tech

One Dutch lab has worked with coral fragments, including some taken from off the coast of the Seychelles, to propagate them in a zoo so that they might be used someday to repopulate wild coral reefs if needed. Efforts are underway to conserve and restore coral.