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Smarter Farming Could Cut Hunger in Drought-Hit Southern Africa
Southern African farmers facing hunger as a result of worsening drought know a lot about climate change but lack the resources to put solutions that work into place, agriculture and development researchers say.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania Becomes 1st Globally Achieving Full Mobile Money Interoperability
The interoperability means mobile phone subscribers transfer money across multiple networks thus enabling the country becoming first in the area. Bank of Tanzania Governor Prof Benno Ndulu said today that mobile phone active account represents 21.9million out of 62.8million accounts registered by five major tele-financial service providers.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Shuts Down Mobile Money Service in South Africa, Plans to Start Selling Insurance
In a country where more than 75 percent of people have bank accounts, South Africa-based mobile phone operator MTN Group has pulled the plug on its mobile money service there, saying it’s not viable.
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Visa Begins Mobile-Money Service to Rival Safaricom’s M-Pesa
Visa Inc., the world’s largest payments network, introduced a mobile-phone application to enable cashless transactions in Kenya, where the majority of wireless payments are being done through the nation’s biggest telecommunications company, Safaricom Ltd.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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An African Trailblazer in Healthcare Services
Standing outside her home in central Rwanda, 19-year-old Ernestine Ituze describes falling ill last year. She was coughing violently and had lost her appetite. A community health worker diagnosed tuberculosis and Ituze was treated at the nearby government hospital, a few kilometres down a red dirt road lined with banana and mango trees. A few months later, she is healthy and continuing her studies to be an accountant.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Digital Financial Services Can Lift Nigerians Out of Poverty
A report, the “financial inclusion insight (FII),” has stressed that digital financial services (DFS) can play a key role in managing expenses and setting individuals and households on paths to stay out of poverty permanently.
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To Reach Millennial Customers, This Kenyan Telecom Giant Tried Shopping Like Them
For the last 16 years Safaricom, Kenya’s largest publicly traded company and East Africa’s largest telecom, has focused on signing up more mobile subscribers. With 87% of Kenya’s population already subscribed to mobile phone plans, Safaricom, partly owned by Britain’s Vodafone—along with its newer rivals such as India’s Bharti Airtel or Orange Kenya, partly owned by France’s Orange SA—are now chasing a smaller slice of the pie.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Madagascar Becomes Second Market in Africa With Mobile Money Interoperability
The GSMA today announced that all three mobile money providers in Madagascar – Airtel Money, mVola and Orange Money – are rolling out interoperable mobile money services across the entire country. This launch makes Madagascar the second market in Africa, following Tanzania, where all mobile money providers are making their services interoperable, allowing transactions to flow seamlessly across all mobile money providers.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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