Big tech troubles in Africa

<p>Two weeks ago, we discussed the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filing civil lawsuits against Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited, a South African company and its CEO for a $1.7 billion Bitcoin fraud scheme.</p> <p>Well, it appears all the victims might not be getting their money. But that's not all we discussed on today's podcast. Big tech appears to be getting the heat on the African continent, with Amazon and Kenya once again in the news</p> <p><strong>Timestamps</strong></p> <p>04:10 - Quick rundown of the Termii Elevate Conference</p> <p>11:57 - Why Amazon's Development Centre in South Africa is facing delays</p> <p>20:03 - Meta's lawsuit in Kenya</p> <p><strong>Useful links</strong></p> <ul> <li>Podcast where we discussed <a href="https://techpoint.africa/2022/07/05/techpoint-africa-podcast-104">the MTI scandal</a></li> <li>Termii Elevate 1.0 Conference &mdash; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Tkerb2-WI">Scaling with stellar communication technologies</a></li> <li>South Africa&rsquo;s <a href="https://techpoint.africa/2022/07/25/techpoint-digest-374">Amazon Development Centre may be cancelled</a></li> <li>Meta faces <a href="https://qz.com/africa/2191286/meta-faces-pressure-from-rights-groups-to-stop-gagging-daniel-motaung/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=africa-weekly-brief&amp;utm_content=beeb878b-09c4-11ed-ae7c-9683920bea6a">pressure from rights groups to stop gagging Daniel Motaung</a></li> <li>Why Facebook <a href="https://techpoint.africa/2020/10/22/facebook-lekkimassacre-false">labelled content from #LekkiMassacre2020 incident &lsquo;false&rsquo;</a></li> </ul> <p>This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and edited by M&uacute;y&igrave;w&aacute; M&aacute;t&ugrave;l&uacute;k&ograve;</p> <p>Email us your feedback at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:podcast@techpoint.africa">podcast@techpoint.africa</a>. Visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.techpoint.africa">www.techpoint.africa</a>&nbsp;for more stories.</p>