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How Bitcoin will (and will not) work in Africa
Digital money can be traced when payments are made, providing transparency and trust in transactions. It can be managed by more than one party at a time (such as a mobile operator and a user), it can’t be easily stolen when it’s stored or transferred, and it can “travel” any distance in seconds.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Banks Are Closing in on What They Think Will Be the Perfect M-Pesa Disruptor
Early next year, Kenyan banks are expected to unveil a digital and mobile money transfer platform to rival M-Pesa’s longstanding dominance as the scramble for cashless payments intensifies.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Mobile Phones Help Kenyans to Stay Healthier
The exponential growth of mobile telephony in Kenya has seen changes not only in communication but healthcare as well.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microfinance breakthrough: Dean Yang uses fingerprints to boost microlending in Malawi
Eight years ago, development economist Dean Yang spent a week in Malawi visiting microfinance institutions, the banks and credit unions that provide financial services to some of the world's most vulnerable citizens.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe: Cash Crisis Buffets Rural Businesses
It never rains but pours for the country's rural business person. On top of the many challenges confronting rural businesses is the cash crisis.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria announces policy proposal to restructure inefficient primary healthcare system
To make Nigeria’s inefficient primary healthcare system effective, the government plans an overhaul that could lead to some sort of financial autonomy for individual health centres.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Ethiopia’s Great Health Reform
Edna lives in a village on the outskirts of Berhale, roughly 900 kilometres from Addis Ababa. Every day, she travels through the desert to deliver essential health services to families' doorsteps. As a front -line health worker, Edna is part of a historic movement that has extended primary health care to the poorest and most marginalised communities and saved millions of lives.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Social startup creates business-in-a-box solution to empower women
When digital strategist Jovana Korac first heard that many South African girls missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy sanitary products, she was appalled. It isn’t a South Africa-only problem either.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa