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More Bitcoin exchange platforms now focus on Africa
The level of awareness regarding Bitcoin in Africa seems to be on the increase, a several new platforms have emerged.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, mobile finance
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‘Essential’ Meds for the World Are Surprisingly Cheap
The cost of providing essential medicines to people in low- and middle-income countries is surprisingly low, a panel of experts is reporting.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Kenya teachers seek to follow Uganda and ban UK-backed private schools
Kenyan teachers want the government to ban a chain of low-cost private primary and nursery schools, backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates and Britain's aid budget, after it faced criticism from a court in neighbouring Uganda for hiring unlicensed teachers.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Who Gives a Crap Toilet Paper Launches 12 Rolls of Christmas Range
The social enterprise selling sustainable toilet paper, Who Gives a Crap, released its limited edition Christmas 2016 range overnight.
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- Health Care
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Safaricom Monitoring Use of Free M-Pesa Transactions Offer
Safaricom has revealed that it is watching the use of its new M-Pesa Kadogo offer of free transactions for amounts of less than 100 Ksh in order to determine whether a limit should be imposed on the number of transactions per user. The mobile operator introduced M-Pesa Kadogo during the release of its unaudited half year 2017 results (for the period ended September 30 2016).
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ECHO, India through its Maiden Orientation Program Reinforces National Priority of Expanding Healthcare Delivery in Rural Communities through Digital Access
Healthcare delivery in underserved areas is a huge challenge the world over. The leveraging of scarce resources of a nation in remote areas is extremely difficult. Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) started in rural community of New Mexico, one of the underdeveloped states of USA in 1994 is built to address this challenge.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Poor people’s access to financial services on the rise in India
A financial survey of four poor states of India—Odisha, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh—has revealed that access to formal banking outlets is not as difficult as had been in the past and an increasing number of people are being financially included.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Developing World’s Health Innovators
We live in an age of tragic health paradoxes. Mass immunization campaigns have eliminated entire diseases, but children in countries like Haiti and Bangladesh continue to die of easily treatable diseases caused by common pathogens. Globalization has lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty, but has left them exposed to the non-communicable diseases of the post-industrial age – from diabetes to heart disease – in countries that lack the resources to treat them.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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