Lincoln Quirk and Drew Durbin launch Wave Mobile Money in four new West African markets
Operating in Senegal since 2016 and in Côte d’Ivoire since 2019, the Senegalese-American start-up has recently started operations in Uganda and Mali and is set to expand into Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin and Niger in the coming weeks.
28/09/2021 at 18h25, by Africa Business+
The news was reported to Jeune Afrique Business+ by an executive of the company.
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