This Week: Kenya threatens Facebook with suspension

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Week 30, 2022
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In a week-plus, Kenyans will bolt to the polls in what stands to be one amongst the most anticipated elections in Africa this twelve months. As election day draws stop, Facebook has tried to aid by utilizing its platform to curb disinformation and despise speech at some level of the duration. But it absolutely looks the social media huge isn’t working as speedily as some stakeholders in the East African nation would favor. Read all about that in today time’s edition of TC Weekender.

Peace,

Kelechi Njoku,
Senior Editor, TechCabal.

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	Kenyan banks to lower ties with Flutterwave and Chipper Cash Unicorn fintechs, Flutterwave and Chipper Cash, were caught in a flood of sad recordsdata. This week, the Central Monetary institution of Kenya acknowledged that Flutterwave and Chipper Cash aren’t licensed to operate in Kenya and has directed banks to lower ties with them. Read more on TechCabal.
	NITDA’s new invoice seeks to tax and aesthetic Nigerian tech companies How thin is the highway between regulation and restriction? A newly-current invoice by Nigeria’s Nationwide Info Technology Pattern Agency (NITDA) is toeing that line. While it affords for the rights of potentialities, it additionally taxes tech startups and threatens to aesthetic or imprison defaulting parties. Study more on TechCabal.
	Nigeria’s House of Reps passes the Nigeria Startup Invoice There’s a invoice which the tech ecosystem is delighted about—the Nigeria Startup Invoice. Final week, the Nigerian Senate passed the invoice. Now, it has achieved its spherical at the Nationwide Assembly and is on its methodology to the president to was guidelines! Extra predominant functions are on TechCabal.
	Kenya threatens to slump Facebook Facebook is coping with an ultimatum to fetch despise speech off its platform in 7 days or bolt away Kenya. This comes after it became once reported that the boom material moderation tools facebook instituted for upcoming Kenya election did not detect despise speech in election adverts outdated to check the platform. Read more on TechCrunch.
	AFC make investments $100 Million in Angola’s Cabinda Refinery The African Monetary Company has invested $100 million in the boost of Angola’s Cabinda refinery. Coincidentally, due to the the Russian-Ukraine crisis, Europe is having a sight for replacement sources of gasoline. Angola could seemingly per chance win that derive. Elephantine predominant functions are on Techloy.
	Telkom drags SA’s President Ramaphosa to court docket South African cell community operator Telkom has asked the Pretoria High Court docket to repeat President Cyril Ramaphosa to elevate his nostril out of its industry. The president had ordered the Special Investigating Unit to study allegations of maladministration and misconduct at Telkom. Study more on MyBroadband.

	Binance provides 12 Nigerian banks to its P2P platform Cryptocurrencies are dipping but Binance is deepening its recognize-to-recognize (P2P) quantity. The crypto platform added 21 banks across the African continent to its P2P platform. Though crypto associated transactions are banned in Nigeria, 12 Nigerian banks were incorporated. The knowledge is on Nairametrics.

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Fashioned Chartered Monetary institution shuts down global use

Weeks after, various African fintechs shutdown their virtual buck card products and companies, British multinational bank Fashioned Chartered Monetary institution, told its potentialities that from August 1, it’d be suspending global use on its naira playing cards.

Extra predominant functions are on TechNext.

UK’s BII to make investments $6 billion in Africa

Within the heart of this financial downturn, UK-owned funding company BII is planning to originate a $6 billion funding in Africa.The funding could be revamped the following 5 years in renewable energy, digital infrastructure, and girls folks-owned agencies.

Read the knowledge on TechCentral.

Who brought the cash this week?

Correctly being tech startup Ubenwa secured $2.5 million in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Radical Ventures.
Egyptian e-commerce startup The Style Kingdom raised a seed funding of $2.6 million in a spherical led by Egypt-based fully venture capital firm CVentures.
Nigeria’s Hashgreed, an NFT market,raised over $1 million to finance its growth targets.
Hybrid hardware-instrument company Qwili, based fully in Cape Metropolis, raised $1.2 million in an oversubscribed seed spherical led by E4E Africa.

Sport: How Many Words Can You Invent From “Faraway”?

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