B@labs CEO Noomane Fehri on how entrepreneurs can help develop a single African market
04 August 2019 |
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Noomane Fehri, co-Founder and CEO of B@labs, and Former Minister of Communication, Technology and Digital Economy for Tunisia says the Tony Elumelu Foundation is one of the main tools to help develop a single African market. He joins CNBC Africa’s Kenneth Igbomor for more.
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