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High cost of vaccines complicates crisis response in South Sudan
Aid group Médecins Sans Frontières says thousands of children have missed critical vaccines because pharmaceutical companies won’t budge on price
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Mobile money, Bitcoin driving down African remittance costs’
Mobile money and digital currencies are being used to boost remittances into Africa and drive down the cost of sending money to the continent, experts said on Wednesday.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria: Stakeholders Raise Concern Over Slow Adoption of Mobile Money
Stakeholders at the ongoing Card, ATM and Mobile Expo, which opened in Lagos on Tuesday, have raised concern over the slow adoption of the mobile money payment system in the country.
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Invested Development Invests in iProcure to Improve Access to Farming Inputs in Kenya
Invested Development (ID), an early stage impact investment fund manager, has invested in iProcure, a technology startup serving the needs of the agricultural ecosystem in Kenya. iProcure provides software to enhance sales and inventory management in rural and peri-urban agriculture markets. As a result, farmers can access high-quality farming inputs and equipment conveniently and affordably.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social entrepreneur uses innovation to push economic growth
Social entrepreneur Irene Chikumbo is using technological innovation to accelerate economic growth and social development in Zimbabwe.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Acumen Joins Power Africa’s Beyond the Grid as Founding Partner
Acumen is proud to be a founding partner of Beyond the Grid, an innovative framework under President Obama’s Power Africa initiative to increase energy access for underserved populations across sub-Saharan Africa. Beyond the Grid will leverage partnerships with investors and practitioners committing to invest over $1 billion into off-grid and small scale solutions for this underserved market.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Kenya’s Virtual Operators Add Twist To Mobile Money Revolution
A move by the Kenya communication regulator to license three mobile virtual network operators (MNVO) – that don’t own their own communication infrastructure – is expected to expected to increase competition in the mobile money segment of the market that has been for the last couple of year dominated by a single player.
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IFC expands support to capital markets, access to finance and telecommunications in Rwanda
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the private sector in Rwanda.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa