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Press Release: Millicom Launches Rwanda’s First Mobile-Based Savings Product with Tigo Cash
Millicom (Stockholmsbörsen: MIC), the international telecommunications and media company, announced today that its Tigo operation in Rwanda has launched the country’s first mobile-based savings product – Tigo Sugira – with Tigo Cash.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Cross-Border Mobile Money Transfer Could Be Available Across East Africa by End of Year
Kwale — Citizens of the East African Community will by the end of this year be able to transfer money via mobile phones across borders if full implementation of the One Area Network Agreement (OANA) succeeds.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Specialist Eye Care, Anywhere: Vula Mobile app enables rural health workers to conduct eye tests, consultations
The Vula app was developed when Dr. William Mapham, an ophthalmologist working in rural Swaziland, noted that poor communication between hospitals and outlying clinics meant that patients were often not referred to the eye clinic when they should have been.
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Ali Health Pens Tie-Up for Online Health Testing Platform
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's healthcare subsidiary will tie-up with Zhejiang DiAn Diagnostics Co Ltd to help develop an online hospital platform, the diagnostics firm said in a filing late on Monday.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Rwanda: Airtel to Give Clients Soft Loans
A micro-money lending platform whereby subscribers will be able to borrow up to Rwf50,000 payable in two weeks has been launched by telecom services provider, Airtel Rwanda and Atlantis Limited, a micro-finance institution.
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Think Bigger: Social Entrepreneurship’s Critical Need for Accelerators
Prossy Sebunya has a passion for clean cook stoves -- a technology that’s critical in third-world countries, where fuel is an expensive commodity, wood fires lead to deforestation and unhealthy conditions prevent sanitary food preparation.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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MTN Partners with Verifone to Target Retailers
Pan-African operator MTN announced a deal with Verifone Mobile Money to deliver retail payment devices to merchants across 16 markets.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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African Mobile Device Pioneer Mi-Fone Opens Up on Strategy
Alpesh Patel, CEO of African mobile player Mi-Fone, said that its strategy for the region is based on “aspiration within reach”, arguing that “you’ve got to be realistic about the consumers’ pockets”.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa