Egyptian developers dominated Facebook’s Middle East and AfricaBots for Messenger Developer Challenge, a contest to recognize and reward developers who are able to create the most innovative new bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa. Only two non-Egyptian developers seized either the winner or runner-up positions across the competition’s categories. In the social good category, Egypt’s MathHook was the winner and Adam (9 Months) was the runner up. Mr. Ink won the productivity and utility category and Jordan’s Evii was the runner up. The only non-Egyptian winner was Morocco’s Trivoxx in the category of gaming and entertainment; the runner-up was Egypt’s Mastermind Games Bot. The winning teams got USD 20k and three months of Facebook mentorship.

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