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    Facebook releases '2019 Year in Review' for sub-Saharan Africa

    Facebook's '2019 Year in Review' looks at some of its investments across sub-Saharan in 2019.

    During 2019, Facebook Africa:

    •Trained over 7,000 woman-owned businesses in digital skills across sub-Saharan Africa
    •Celebrated 79 Community Leadership Circle meet-ups with over 2 ,650 people attending
    •Reached its 45th Developer Circle, with circles now in 17 African countries and representing more than 70,000 members
    •Hosted the first-ever iD8 Nairobi Conference with over 400 African developers and startups in attendance
    •Expanded Third-Party Fact-Checking across 10 African countries
    •Announced the creation of the world's most detailed population density maps of Africa, created by Facebook AI researchers to help humanitarian aid and relief agencies

    Check out the Facebook in Africa infographic to learn more about Facebook milestones and achievements in sub-Saharan Africa in 2019, here.

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