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AfCFTA Credit Fund Launches With $10 Million Investment in Telecel Global Services
Telecel Global Services provides wholesale voice and SMS services, as well as enterprise connectivity solutions, to over 250 telecom operators across the continent and globally.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC Invests in IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 7 to Fund High-Impact Women Enterprises in South and Southeast Asia
The subordinated debt will be invested through the Advancing Gender Equality, Resilience, Opportunity and Inclusion Worldwide (GROW) facility, in partnership with the Government of Canada.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Mexican Plenna Raises $6 Million Series A to Expand Its Hybrid Women’s Health Model
The company operates a hybrid model, combining in-person and digital health services. The funding will support technology enhancement and the opening of new clinics across Mexico.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Amogy Raises $80 Million to Power Ships and Data Centers With Ammonia
The startup is based primarily in the U.S. but it has found demand for its core technology in Japan and South Korea, countries looking for new ways to expand power generation.
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- Environment, Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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U.S. Program to Combat HIV/Aids Survives Latest Round of Cuts
Earlier versions of a spending cuts package passed through Congress targeted PEPFAR. But the White House, concerned about defections, agreed to spare the foreign aid program.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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Brazil’s Neon Raises $129 Million in Series E Extension Round
Founded in 2016, Neon provides digital accounts, credit cards, personal loans, and investment products to customers in Brazil.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Latin America
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Report: Cleaner Cooking Could Save 4.7 Million Lives in Africa by 2040, IEA Says
African homes switching to biogas could prevent 4.7 million premature deaths between now and 2040, according to a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Keen to Strike Trade Deal With US but Wary About Crossing Red Lines on Agriculture, Dairy
Indian Farmers' groups oppose the US push for easier access to the Indian market for US produce – soy, dairy, wheat, rice and apples.
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- Agriculture
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- Global