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May 23, 2023 Country & Region / Micro-Retail

JEMLA: Digitising Ethiopia’s Informal Retail Sector with Tech-Enabled Platform

Ethiopia’s bustling informal retail sector has found a partner in JEMLA, a promising B2B ecommerce platform that caters to the

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March 22, 2023 Micro-Retail / Technology

Moroccan start-up Chari launches chain of B2B stores to digitise informal retailers

Moroccan start-up Chari has launched a new chain of B2B stores to cater to local grocery stores seeking to digitise

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March 3, 2023 Micro-Retail / Technology

The digitalisation of the traditional retailer in Africa

The humble mom-and-pop shop or traditional retailer has been getting a lot of attention of late. It seems like not

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February 28, 2023 Micro-Retail / Technology

From Chamas to Online Shopping: Kapu’s Social eCommerce in Kenya

Kenyan social ecommerce startup Kapu aims to alleviate the impact of rising food prices for Kenyan consumers by offering groceries

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February 24, 2023 Country & Region / Supply Chain

Up to one-third of EU clothes “recycled” to Kenya are immediately dumped or burned

A report published by Clean Up Kenya and Wildlight for the Changing Markets Foundation (CMF) has found that as much

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January 19, 2023 Micro-Retail

Keeping pace with Africa’s shifting retail market: E-tailers respond to evolving customer needs

The African continent is being viewed as a potential goldmine for retailers, with a population of 1.4 billion, including over

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January 3, 2023 Micro-Retail / Route-to-market

Differences between traditional trade and modern trade

In emerging markets, modern trade is still in the early stages of development, especially in some less developed economies in

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August 22, 2021 Micro-Retail

Newsletter 11

Size of the cash economy: According to FirstRand, the scale of the cash economy in the South African townships is

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April 22, 2021 Micro-Retail

Newsletter 09

Last-mile: Women in rural Rajasthan in Dina, where ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon and Flipkart do not deliver, are becoming the last-mile link

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September 22, 2020 Micro-Retail / Technology

Ecommerce for rural Africa – The Copia Global way

Copia Global is a B2C ecommerce startup — enabling people in rural and peri-urban areas to purchase products online, without

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