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How African Crowdfunding Projects Raised R1.7 Billion Last Year
Last year, over R1.7 billion was raised for crowdfunding projects in Africa and the number of crowdfunding platforms and project success rate is showing a lot of promise.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- crowdfunding
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Tanzanian Micro-Insurance Startup Jamii Prepares for Expansion
Tanzanian micro-health insurance startup Jamii is heading to the global final of the Seedstars World competition next year. But the trip to Switzerland is just one part of an international agenda that will see the startup launch across Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Commercial Bank of Africa Weighs Options to Reduce M-Shwari Fees
Commercial Bank of Africa says it is likely to revise down the 7.5 per cent facilitation fees for its mobile phone-based monthly loans via the M-Shwari platform by end of the year.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bridge Schools Re-Open Amid Uncertainty, Controversy
On a rainy Monday afternoon, Bridge International Academy (BIA) in Nsumbi in Wakiso district is abuzz with activity. A number of children, dressed in their light green school uniforms, playfully gait about the school compound.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Child TB Deaths Set to Fall as Kenya Launches New Drugs
More children are likely to survive tuberculosis, the leading infectious disease killer, after Kenya introduces child-friendly medicines on Oct. 1 - the first country in the world to do so.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cash Shortages Cripple Mobile Money in Zimbabwe
The prevailing cash shortages have suffocated mobile money subscribers, who are failing to get their money or do cash-out transactions.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bee Pharma Africa and a Flying Pharmacy
Hugo Fearnley of Whitby, England is studying the potential of bee-produced medicinesfor the treatment of human diseases. Fearnley, CEO of BeeVital and Director of theApiceutical Research Centre (ARC), recently earned a Churchill Travelling Fellowship to fund his research and coalition-building in four African countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Africa’s Regulators Are Smothering Its Innovators
The birth of mobile money transfer in Kenya has raised optimism about the potential of the continent to leapfrog in other technologies. However, Africa’s mobile technology is starting to look like an exception despite efforts to create start-ups using emerging technologies and platforms such as drones, 3D printing, robots and machine learning.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation