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Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms
- 1680168l 5y agoIn the mist of a civil war. Uh-huh.
- xiaodai 5y agoI thought only China has the scale, know-how, and talent to build technologies companies that rival the US. But let's see. M-pesa is an quite interesting tech-ecosystem to have come out of East Africa.
- aaron695 5y agoM-pesa was from the UK, but an interesting way the West can help East Africa - https://www.sagentiainnovation.com/case-studies/vodafone-m-pesa-mobile-micro-finance-service-for-emerging-markets/ https://www.sagentiainnovation.com/case-studies/vodafone-m-p...
- aaron695 5y agoI assume this is just to poke fun at Ethiopia and not in good faith - Here's a tweet along similar lines - https://twitter.com/Zesemir/status/1115212203941158912 https://twitter.com/Zesemir/status/1115212203941158912 Not real appropriate given the current civil war perhaps - https://www.unrefugees.org/news/ethiopia-s-tigray-refugee-crisis-explained https://www.unrefugees.org/news/ethiopia-s-tigray-refugee-cr... Interesting OSINT of a smaller massacre - https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20210312-ethiopia-tigray-video-massacre-war-mai-harmaz-investigation https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20210312-ethiopia-t...