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Kenya Targets 1 Million Digital Jobs for Youths in a Year
Kenya has started a digital skills training program to enable 1 million young people to secure freelance online work in the next year, in a bid to tackle the country's acute youth unemployment problem.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment
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What does it mean for technology to be innately African?
Mobile and cloud may be global technologies, but African startups have explored their functionalities, shaped their applications and used them to build differentiated business models suited to their markets, writes Amrote Abdella, regional director of Microsoft 4Afrika.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New mobile payments facility to help enhance financial inclusion in Rwanda
Rwanda’s cashless economy push has received a timely shot as regional lender KCB Bank Rwanda prepares to launch a new payment system that is tipped to expand digital and mobile banking services across the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Ayo Uganda Launches with two mobile based Micro-Insurance Products
MTN Uganda, in partnership with aYo, today announced innovative micro-insurance products, Recharge with Care and Send with Care. The two are the first products launched by aYo – a joint venture between MTN and MMI Holdings – announced in September last year. aYo was formulated to have a strong focus on delivering micro-insurance solutions across the African continent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation
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Legitimate MFIs to Be Distinguished By Logo in Ghana
The Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies (GAMC) is to introduce a corporate signage for all licensed institutions in the sector by mid-2017. The signage, which would be present at the premises of all registered microfinance institutions in the country from January, is to help the public identify licensed companies to do business with.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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MasterCard Thinks Small With Microcommerce Platform in Africa
For some financial-services giants, the next big thing is micro, and unbanked customers are the entry point. The latest example is MasterCard, which is getting into microcommerce in Kenya with the launch of a new mobile platform that lets consumers buy goods with cash, mobile money, or bank transfer using their phones. The service, called 2Kuze, is aimed at Kenyan farmers and their customers and may mark the beginning of a deeper journey into mobile money products.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Drugmakers in Davos Shift Focus to Chronic Diseases of Poor
Two decades after they were spurred into action to tackle AIDS in Africa, global drugmakers said on Wednesday they would invest an initial $50 million over three years to fight cancer and other non-communicable diseases in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Donors and Drug Makers Offer $500 Million to Control Global Epidemics
Stung by the lack of vaccines to fight the West African Ebola epidemic, a group of prominent donors announced Wednesday that they had raised almost $500 million for a new partnership to stop epidemics before they spiral out of control.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines