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Central Bank of Kenya Warns Against Using Bitcoin and Other Unregulated Digital Currencies
As the role of bitcoin and other unregulated digital currencies grows, the Central Bank of Kenya has joined other authorities from around the world to warn that virtual money is insecure and could be used to fund terrorism.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- regulations
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Kenya Is the First Country to Receive $1 Medications for Chronic Illnesses
A global pharmaceutical company is taking the lead in the fight against chronic illnesses by offering treatment at extremely low costs.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Barclays Officially Opens Hub to Catalyse Fintech Innovation in Africa
Last month, ex-Barclay’s CEO Antony Jenkins warned that banks face massive disruption within the very near future. Similar to how the popular ride-sharing app Uber is upsetting the balance within the transport industry, so too does the financial services sector face inevitable disruption. Technologies such as cryptocurrencies, blockchains and mobile are opening up cheaper, faster and more secure avenues for services.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ford Sensor Technology Applied to Motorcycles for New Mobility Insights; Improves Medical Care for Rural Africans
Ford is expanding its use of sensor technology to motorcycles, helping researchers and programmers better understand how cars, bikes and other modes of transportation together can create new mobility solutions and make people’s lives better – including improving healthcare in rural West Africa.
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- Health Care, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Facebook Brings Its Internet.org Innovation Challenge to Africa
Facebook is launching the Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa. According to the company, with the aim of recognising developers and entrepreneurs who are using the internet to improve the standard of education and economic health in their communities. Developers across Africa are invited to enter the challenge.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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After $19M equity round, Kenya’s M-Kopa is set to deliver solar power to a million homes
This month the company closed a $19 million financing round led by Generation Investment Management, and revealed plans to reach one million homes in East Africa by the end of 2017.
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Zimbabwe’s Microfinance Institutions Have Lost Their Way, Says Reserve Bank Governor
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Says Microfinance institutions have lost their way as they are concentrating on maximising profit and need re-orientation to ensure they focus on supporting marginalised people living in rural areas to promote financial inclusion.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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S. African Health Activists Protest Sanofi Over Lack of BCG Vaccine
Sanofi ($SNY) continues to come under pressure from health groups who say the drugmaker has ceased manufacturing the BCG vaccine and created a global shortage of the jab used to treat tuberculosis and bladder cancer.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines