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Big Promises, Few Results: Chinese Farms Falter in Uganda
These projects fly under the radar, compared with China’s high-profile Belt and Road Initiative. But what was first touted as major progress in the making is seen by locals as merely an obstacle to individual livelihoods.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Ghana’s Banks May Find Themselves Undercut by MTN’s Mobile Money
MTN Ghana is targeting 20m customers on its mobile money service in the next three years, from 13m in 2018.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Report: Solar Boosting Economic Prospects for Rural East Africans
New report from GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, shows an overwhelming majority (94%) of people living with off-grid solar home systems reporting improvements to their quality of life
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ericsson and MTN launch Mobile Money open API platform in Ghana
Ericsson and MTN have extended their mobile money partnership with the launch of an open API platform in Ghana.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bono Is Really Into Drones Now (But It’s Good)
The U2 frontman has just joined the board of Zipline, a medical delivery drone company that’s already saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Africa No Continent for Old Men
Increasingly, Africa’s brightest young minds are channeling their focus toward entrepreneurship as a means to create more just and equitable societies.Increasingly, Africa’s brightest young minds are channeling their focus toward entrepreneurship as a means to create more just and equitable societies. Much of this can be attributed to the perceived dysfunction of the public sector over the comparatively robust nongovernment sectors.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q&A: Africa’s $40B Market for Cooking Fuel Is Being Cleaned Up
KOKO Networks is stepping into Africa’s $40 billion market for household cooking fuel with its non-polluting bioethanol cooking technology that undercuts the cost of using charcoal by as much as 40%, Greg Murray, chief executive and co-founder of the Nairobi-based company, told BloombergNEF in an interview.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe’s EcoCash Woes Show Dangers of Early Reliance on Mobile Money
The growth of EcoCash was driven by its ability to extend financial inclusion by drawing in previously unbanked customers. But recurrent power blackouts and food shortages in the context of a currency crisis are now showing the fragility of that model.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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