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  "id": 8930220,
  "title": "Yango Fellowship brings together tech talent from six African countries to build locally rooted solutions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/yango-fellowship-brings-together-tech-talent-from-six-african",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T11:27:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Joy Business",
    "slug": "joy-business",
    "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/yango-fellowship-brings-together-tech-talent-from-six-african-countries-to-build-locally-rooted-solutions/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Pan-African Yango Fellowship 2026 concluded in Abidjan with a graduation program and pitch day, uniting 24 talented fellows from six African countries. These fellows, chosen from over 600 applicants, developed tech projects over a 12-week program, working in mixed-country teams. The projects ranged from cashless payments for informal transport to low-cost water-quality testing for rural communities. At the closing event, Juries selected Africoded, Harambee, and Bloom as the top group, smart waste collection, and cashless transit payment projects, respectively. Fredrick Mwepu from Zambia won the Best Individual Project award for RoboCore Zambia, a robotics platform aimed at affordable STEM education. Yango Group's Director of Operations, Shashi Singh, emphasized the importance of mentorship and structured opportunity in nurturing Africa's tech talent.",
  "summary": "Yango Group has concluded the Pan-African Yango Fellowship 2026 programme with a two-day Graduation programme and Pitch Day in Abidjan, bringing together 24 Fellows from six African countries to present the tech projects they developed over the course of the programme. The cohort included fellows from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Zambia, Senegal, Ethiopia and Mozambique, selected […]",
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