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This Hult Entrepreneur’s Social Enterprise Is Cleaning Up Uganda’s Informal Economy
In Kampala, Uganda, a proliferation of street vendors are unregistered and do not pay tax, working in an informal, illegal economy. Large urban areas are also notoriously-polluted, with street vendors working around fire hazards and breathing in harmful fumes - particularly charcoal smoke - on a daily basis.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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KCB M-Pesa Loans Hit Sh10.3bn Since Launch
Mobile-based bank account KCB M-Pesa has disbursed a total of Sh10.3 billion in loans to its customers since March last year, indicating a growing appetite for short-term loans.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fingerprint Technology Expanding In African Mobile Banking
London-based bank Standard Chartered plans this year to introduce biometric technology to customers in eight African countries so they can use fingerprints to access their mobile money — a process known as touch login — versus usernames and passwords.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Liberian Nurses Learn to Spot Danger Signs in Babies as Healthcare Gets Shot in Arm
The Well Baby clinic in Buchanan is busy. But that’s not unusual. The clinic, a two-hour drive from Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, sees between 700 and 1,000 mothers and children each week.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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As globe-threatening yellow fever epidemic explodes in Congo, people ask ‘where is the vaccine?’
Here in Kinshasa, they’re using bug spray to repel a pandemic. At first glance, it looks like a bloody ambush on civilians: Dozens in uniform are storming into a bustling marketplace bearing on their shoulders what look like bazookas.
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Africa’s Health Strategy Can Benefit India’s Pharma Firms
With a $106.8 million strategy to tackle Africa's public health emergencies over the next five years, stakeholders here feel it will be an ideal opportunity for the Indian pharma companies to take advantage, with Cipla taking the lead.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Here Are 5 of Africa’s Most Financially Inclusive Countries
Fnancial inclusion is vital in achieving inclusive sustainable growth and development as well as reducing poverty. Globally, about 2 billion people do not have a bank account but, Africa has been experiencing great advancements in financial inclusiveness. According to The World Bank, 34 percent of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had an account in 2014 compared to 24 percent in 2011.
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WorldRemit Brings Mobile Transfers to Malawi
Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has introduced overseas remittances to mobile money accounts in Malawi. Users of the WorldRemit app or website will be able to securely send money transfers to any Airtel Money account in the country.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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