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Analysis: African Citizen Digital Health Data Is Now a Condition of Global Health Funding
"The United States has signed 26 bilateral health Memorandum of Understanding with African governments under the Trump administration’s America First Global Health Strategy, the framework that replaced USAID and restructured PEPFAR." . . . "Each MOU comes bundled with two sub-agreements that should concern every digital health practitioner in a signatory country."
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Senegal’s Sovereign-Backed Fund Oyass Doubles Down on Healthtech Eyone with $1.7 Million Injection
Founded in 2015 by Henri Ousmane Gueye and John Diatta, Eyone Medical develops interoperable software that allows clinics and hospitals to share patient data securely in real-time.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Divest Launches Money Xchange to Simplify Cross-Border Payments in Africa
One of the main features of Money Xchange is transparency. The platform allows users to see exchange rates before they confirm a transaction.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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FSDAi, Allied Climate Partners Commit $50 Million to African Transition Acceleration Fund
FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi) and Allied Climate Partners (ACP) have jointly committed $50 million to support the first close of the African Transition Acceleration Fund (ATAF), a new investment vehicle aimed at advancing Africa’s energy transition.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Proparco Commits $15 Million to AIIM’s African Transition Acceleration Fund
The pan-African fund targets a $200 million raise and will back early-stage project developers.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First Africa Climate-Health Desk is Launched
The Africa Climate-Health Desk will help close the long-standing gap between climate science and public health decision-making.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda’s Zigoti Secures $1 Million Funding From Sahel Capital to Support Smallholder Farmers
Zigoti sources its coffee beans from a network of more than 4,000 smallholder farmers, providing not only a stable market for their harvests but also offering a range of extension services, training programmes, and value-added support aimed at improving crop quality and farmer livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Research: A Plan to Maneuver Female Leadership in Ghana’s Renewable Energy Sector
The country is experience a profound paper-to-practice divide with agencies operating in silos and treating gender as a tangential social issue rather than core economic requirement.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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