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Mosquito-Repellent Soap Invention Seeks to Wash Away Africa Malaria Threat
Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Facebook Has Finally Launched Free Basics in Its Biggest African Market
Social network giant, Facebook, has launched its Free Basics service in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country—and its biggest market on the continent. The platform which allows users to access listed websites at no cost was launched in partnership with Airtel, the country’s third largest telecoms operator with almost 34 million subscribers.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Challenges of Mobile Financial Inclusion
One of the gating factors to financial inclusion is the mobile network itself. It sounds simple to say that all of Africa can have access to mobile money, and they can, but if each telco has different wallet structures, charges and fees, then the ease of usage falls sharply. This is why interoperability is a key factor and Tanzania leads the way in this regard.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: It’s Time to Green Our Financial Deserts
Since 2010, more than 5,000 bank branches have closed in communities across the United States. Meanwhile, expensive alternative financial service providers like check cashers and payday lenders continued to proliferate at an alarming rate. Not surprisingly, these two trends have disproportionately impacted hard-working people of color, trapping roughly 9 million African-American families in a world where it costs more to have less.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Airtel Ghana Launches Mobile Money Loan Scheme
Airtel has partnered with Fidelity Bank and Tiaxa, a global leader in Nano credits to launch Airtel Money Bosea – a Nano loan scheme that provides access to financial services enabling customers to borrow money instantly through their Airtel Money wallet anytime, anywhere.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe’s Cash Shortage Hits Mobile Money Services
Mobile money transfer agencies in Bulawayo have in the past few days recorded low business due to the cash crisis that hit the country in recent weeks.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TransferTo, Barri Partner to Provide Mobile Money Transfers in El Salvador
Barri Financial Group, a U.S.-based money transfer service provider, has signed a strategic partnership with TransferTo, a B2B mobile payment network, to enable real-time mobile money transfers to Tigo Money accounts in El Salvador.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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- fintech, remittances
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In Brazil, a New Zika Strategy: Billboards That Smell Like Humans and Kill Mosquitoes
There’s an impressive array of creative billboards in Brazil. One in Rio de Janeiro sprays mists of water to cool down beachgoers waiting for a bus home. But a new innovation recently unveiled in this city is plain lethal — at least for bugs.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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