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9 African Countries That Score Highest for Financial Inclusion
Mobile technology has accelerated financial inclusion for the so-called under served — people with inadequate access to traditional banking institutions — according to a newly released Brookings report.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cocoa Farmers Embrace Telemedicine
Kuapa Kokoo Farmers' Union - a farmers' cooperative, has introduced a telemedicine project to help effectively tackle the health needs of the Ghanaian cocoa farmer.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five Ugandan students invented an app to diagnose vaginal infections at home
Five university students majoring in information technology and engineering have invented a device and accompanying app, which they’ve named the Her Health BVKit, to allow women to test for vaginal infections at home.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Reaching the Base of the Pyramid — and cutting carbon in the process
Ghana’s per capita income is $31 a week, according to the World Bank. But the roughly 500 female farmers who cultivate and harvest the leaves of moringa oleifera trees in the Tamale region of the West African nation earn five times that amount. That's because the women supply ground leaves of the nutrient-rich moringa plant to Oakland-based Kuli Kuli Foods, which markets and sells energy bars, teas and nutrition supplement powders made from the "superfood" at stores including Whole Foods.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: MoneyGram Expands Mobile Money Choices in Africa
New agreement enables customers to receive money directly to M-Pesa accounts in Tanzania.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Safaricom plays hardball in Equitel-M-Pesa Battle
In one single move, Safaricom has potentially pulled the rug from under Equity Bank's poorly hidden plan to eat their lunch, dinner and breakfast.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Smartphones help Tanzanian women secure land rights
In an effort to help Tanzania's authorities secure village land rights, USAID launched a project to map geographic and demographic data using mobile phone technology, with the aim of speeding up land rights registration.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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West Africa’s air pollution is reaching dangerously high levels—and we don’t know the worst of it
In Lagos, smog has quickly become another aspect of city life. In the city of more than 21 million people – known to some as “Africa’s first city” – the majority of residents live near industrial plants, breathing in exhaust from thousands of cars and millions of generators providing power to the city.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, research