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Meta celebrates Africa’s ‘Rising Stars’ in its 2023 ‘Made by Africa, Loved by the World’ campaign

This year's edition aims to amplify the voices and stories of eight rising talents from across Africa, who are building a global presence and changing the way Africa is viewed on the international stage

As part of Africa Day celebration on 25 May, Meta (http://www.Facebook.com) announced the third iteration of its pan-African 'Made by Africa, Loved by the World' campaign. Themed "Rising Stars", this year's edition aims to amplify the voices and stories of eight rising talents from across Africa, who are building a…

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Meta Releases Sub-Saharan Africa ‘2022 Year in Review’ highlighting key milestones across the region

The immense talent this region holds will continue to play a key role in Meta’s journey

Today, Meta (http://www.Facebook.com) released its `2022 Africa Year in Review,  capturing some of the company's investments and initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa across innovation, its support of SMBs and Creators as well as its work connecting communities. Showcased through an infographic and short video, this highlights Meta’s ongoing milestones and successes…

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Meta Unveils ‘#FlexNaija’ in Nigeria: A First-of-Its-kind 360 Campaign Focused On Metaverse Entry Points for African Creators

In a first for Meta in Africa, the company unveiled a 360 degree campaign focused on the metaverse and entry points for creators in Nigeria, and across the region

Last week, Meta (www.Facebook.com) invited top Nigerian content creators to a first-of-its-kind mixed reality event showcasing creativity and imagination as keys to the Metaverse, the next evolution of the internet, and as part of its “#FlexNaija” campaign. In a first for Meta in Africa, the company unveiled a 360 degree campaign focused…

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Meta Hosts Extended Reality (XR) Exhibition to Showcase Winners of the Future Africa Grant for Extended Reality Creators

Developed in partnership with Africa No Filter, Electric South and Imisi 3D this forms part of Meta’s XR Programs and Research investment into XR talents across Africa

Meta (www.Facebook.com) today unveiled an exclusive XR exhibition featuring the six finalists from the ‘Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds’ programme, focused on supporting the next generation of Extended Reality (XR) creators in Africa. Developed in partnership with Africa No Filter, Electric South and Imisi 3D this forms part of Meta’s…

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Introducing Community Chats: Connecting Your Community in Real Time on Messenger and Facebook

Community Chats let people connect more deeply with communities in real time around the topics they care about in multiple formats, including text, audio and video

We’ve helped more than a billion people connect with loved ones in a trusted space on Messenger, and we know that people want to engage in real time with larger communities over shared interests. Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced (https://bit.ly/3BIxGLK) we’ll begin testing the ability for people to start Community Chats in Messenger…

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Meta launches ‘Creators of Tomorrow’ campaign celebrating emerging talents from across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Meta will be hosting exclusive events across the region to celebrate the Creators of Tomorrow, sharing the latest news, tips as well as tools and resources across Meta technologies

Today, Meta (www.Facebook.com) announced the launch of ‘Creators of Tomorrow' (https://www.CreatorsofTomorrow.com/), a new campaign  that celebrates emerging talents from around the world who are inspiring a new movement of creative content online. The campaign spotlights creators in Sub- Saharan Africa from East Africa, Southern Africa and Francophone Africa. The selected…

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Meta’s AI Machine Translation Research Helps Break Language Barriers

Meta is using the modelling techniques and learnings from the project to improve and extend translations on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia

Today, Meta (www.Facebook.com) announced that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200 (https://bit.ly/3yJo7KS), a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages with state-of-the-art results. Meta is using the modelling techniques and learnings from the project to…

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‘Made by Africa, Loved by the World’: Meta launches its Africa Day campaign spotlighting and celebrating Africans making a global impact

Meta has partnered with local filmmakers to bring to life eight phenomenal stories

As part of its Africa Day celebrations on 25 May, Meta (www.Facebook.com) today announced the return of its global campaign ‘Made by Africa, Loved by the World’, which was first launched in 2021. Aimed at amplifying the voices and stories of people and businesses from across Africa that are impacting…

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2Africa Deployment Underway with First Landing in Genoa, Italy

Highly Anticipated Subsea Cable System Set to Connect 3 Billion People Upon Completion

The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Meta (www.Facebook.com), MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, announced today the first landing of the 2Africa cable - in Genoa, Italy. The landing sets the tone for more landings in the coming months as the cable is extended to…

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Africa No Filter and Meta Announce The Winners of the Future Africa Grant for Extended Reality Creators

As part of the ‘Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds’ programme, each creator will be supported with funding of up to $30,000 and also participate in XR-industry events

Africa No Filter and Meta (www.Facebook.com) are excited to announce today the six finalists of the ‘Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds’ programme - focused on harnessing and investing in the next generation of Extended Reality (XR) creators in Africa. The winners, selected from Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius, Cameroon, and Kenya, will incorporate…