TechCabal Daily, 668 - Niger Wants To Use Drones To Track Endangered Antelopes

MTN Group may lose another executive in the midst of its battle with Nigerian regulators [View this email in your browser]( PRESENTED BY NESA & BUDWEISER 28 - 11 - 2018 Welcome to today's edition of TC Daily. Did a friend or colleague forward this to you? Do take a moment to [subscribe]( you don't miss out on future editions. A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS The [New Economy Skills Accelerator]( (NESA by Makers) is now accepting applications into Cohort #7 of its [Software Engineering Training program](. Since inception in May 2017, NESA has graduated 26 new developers who have gone on to work at reputable companies like Sankore Investments, Andela, Softcom, VFD Group, Ventures Garden Group, TechAdvance, to name a few. Classes are scheduled to start in January 2019. Click [here]( to apply. For inquiries, WhatsApp or call +2349034843983 or email apply@makers.ng. The Government of Niger will start using drones as a means of surveillance to protect the Addax antelopes in its Termit and Tin Toumma nature reserve, [iAfrikan reports](. The drones will be used to help monitor not only the [endangered addax antelopes]( but also the dama gazelle and cheetahs that also roam the park. MTN Group's Chief innovation officer Herman Singh could be on his way out, per reports from [Techcentral]( and [MyBroadband](. There are no speculations on why he could be leaving but there is a lot of talk about MTN's struggles with regulators in Nigeria which has cut its stock price in half since the beginning of the saga. Calling all high-growth tech startups operating in Francophone Africa and looking to raise between $250K and $5M, applications are now open for L'Afrique Excelle. Selected startups will get access to funding, networks, mentoring, two all-expense-paid residencies, in Mali and in France, and an opportunity to showcase at the 2019 VivaTech conference in Paris. Find more info and apply [here](. Kenya's Equity Bank has launched an online foreign exchange platform for SMEs and large corporates called EazzyFX. [Techmoran has more.]( Techweez did a bunch of articles comparing data prices between network operators in [Tanzania]( [Uganda]( and [Kenya](. Check them out if you're in that neck of the woods. TechCrunch is headed to Lagos to host its second Startup Battlefield Africa competition on December 11, 2018 and we are giving away 100 complimentary tickets! To qualify, [fill this form]( and you could join Sub-Saharan Africa’s best innovators, makers and technical entrepreneurs at this year's TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa. The Lagos Angel Network (LAN) in collaboration with the Bank of Industry (BOI) will be hosting a learning and business networking event for angel investors and the early-stage investing community in Nigeria on December 5, 2018. The event is themed “Building a more vibrant Early-Stage Funding Industry in Nigeria” and it is designed to create a platform for networking and sharing ideas on how to improve debt and equity funding to entrepreneurs in 2019. Register [here]( to attend or send an email to secretariat@lagosangelnetwork.net for further enquiries. The Climate Finance Lab is seeking proposals for innovative ideas that can unlock investment to tackle some of the most difficult climate and sustainable development challenges, for its 2019 cycle. This year's call targets sustainable agriculture for smallholders in West & Central Africa, sustainable energy access, blue carbon in coastal & marine ecosystems, and sustainable cities. 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