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Payment Startups Lead Way In Africa’s Booming FinTech Scene
The report finds there has been a boom in the fintech space over the last two years, with more than half of the fintech startups currently operating launching after January 2015.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, remittances
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Can a for-profit company bring connectivity to ultra-remote villages?
An additional 4 million people will soon be able to make and receive calls, send messages and access basic internet services as a result of the multi-million dollar investment in Africa Mobile Networks — a commercial company that builds solar-powered mobile network base stations in ultra-rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Liberia’s broken education system: will school choice work?
Liberia is trying to solve perennial education problems by outsourcing the management of hundreds of schools to the private sector.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WHO strengthens surveillance, alert and response using an innovative electronic system in South Sudan
The overall objective of the web based system is to overcome the reporting challenges of the transmission of paper-based standardized data tools and strengthen surveillance and response capacities and ultimately reduce morbidity and mortality from epidemic prone diseases as well as other public health events.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kaiser launches AYARISA
Following the growing dependency of the Ghanaian market on smart mobile technology as well as the inaccessibility to quality healthcare, Kaiser Global Health Limited has developed an innovative healthcare offer; AYARISA, a mobile platform that delivers quality, accessible and affordable healthcare through a portfolio of insurance plans to the largely uninsured population in Ghana.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New investment initiative for African startups
Orange Digital Ventures Africa is the Group’s investment vehicle for early-stage innovation projects in Africa in areas such as new connectivities, FinTech, the Internet of Things, energy and e-health.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, innovation
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Safaricom Plans Mobile-Money Roll-Out After Vodafone Stake Sale
“Before the end of the year, I would expect to have something to roll out,” Collymore said June 8. Safaricom may seek to agree to platform-sharing deals with competitors such as MTN Group Ltd. to expand M-Pesa rather than set up in new countries, he said.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Blood from the Sky: Zipline’s Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa
The plastic sachets of blood are among the first commercial products ever delivered by drone, part of a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Silicon Valley–based robotics firm Zipline, which began introducing the blood drops at -Kabgayi in late 2016. The service, which is now delivering to seven of 21 planned facilities, is still in its infancy. Yet it has already had an impact. In the past, hospital staff would make three drives per week to procure blood products in the capital, Kigali, 60 kilometers away, a three- to four-hour round trip.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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