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Tanzania Payment Ecosystem Improved Following Three Way Partnership Including Mastercard
The launch of the virtual card will ensure Tigo’s ability to provide its customers access to products and services previously a preserve of physical credit card holders.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Begins Work on Solar Cell Production Factory to Boost Power Supply
Work has begun in Nigeria on the construction of a solar-cell production factory aimed at increasing power supply in the West African country.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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JP Morgan Has Opened an Office in Kenya, Making It Present in All Four of Africa’s Biggest Technological Hubs
JP Morgan, the biggest bank in the United States and the world based on market capitalization, now had a regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: UpEnergy Issues World’s First Carbon Credits Linked to Electric Clean Cooking Devices Deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa
The new project provides a pathway for a growing number of African consumers to abandon the toxic burning of unsustainable, wood-based fuels and breathe cleaner air with healthier, zero-emissions electric cooking.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Incofin Launches Pioneering Fund to Provide Drinking Water for 30 Million People
W2AF invests in innovative water businesses that provide affordable, safe drinking water to underserved populations.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- accelerators, innovation, water
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Analysis: Mexico Makes Lots of Electric Cars, but Few Mexicans Drive Them
The zero emissions cars remain too expensive for most Mexicans and they are impractical to drive in much of the country, which lacks enough charging stations.
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- Technology, Transportation
- Region
- Latin America
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Press Release: ENGIE & ATEC Sign Landmark Multi-Country Digital MRV Carbon Credit Agreement
The first major deal signed under Gold Standard’s new metered methodology.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Water’s Big Moment Risks Getting Lost in the Weeds
It’s just typical. You wait almost five decades to make the case for urgent action and investment on the global stage in the world’s financial capital, and along comes a banking crisis to steal your thunder.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- climate change, innovation, water
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