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Safaricom will not be forced to loosen its dominant hold on Kenya’s mobile-money market
For a minute there, it looked like Safaricom might have to break up its business.
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A Baltimore health-tech startup is developing a way to recycle blood
Sisu Global Health is developing a medical device that doctors could use to recycle a patient’s blood lost through traumatic internal bleeding. The company later this year will launch a clinical study of the device, called Hemafuse, in partnership with the University of Zimbabwe.
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The Case for Health As a High-Return Investment
One of the biggest initiatives to come out of last month’s third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was the Global Financing Facility Trust Fund. Launched in support of the United Nations’ Every Woman Every Child initiative, it was able to align $12 billion in public and private resources towards financing country-led five-year investment plans for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.
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The African Startup Using Phones to Spot Counterfeit Drugs
A Ghanaian entrepreneur thinks he has the answer to Africa’s fake medicine problem.
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Why South Africa’s largest mobile network, Vodacom, failed to grow M-Pesa
With just one million subscribers at the end of March 2015—the uptake of the mobile money platform M-Pesa has been labelled a failure in South Africa.
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Thirsty for Growth, Liquor Giant Taps African Market
Diageo targets even poorest consumers with liquor made locally and sold cheaply.
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Impact Investors in Africa Are Looking East
President Obama’s recent trip to East Africa put the spotlight on a hot area for impact investing. So it’s timely that the Global Impact Investing Network(GIIN), in partnership with Open Capital Advisors, just published a detailed look at impact investing in the region.
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Viewpoint: Ebola Vaccine: The Need to Act Now
One year ago West Africa was descending into chaos. As the Ebola death toll approached 1,000 for the first time ever and Liberia closed its borders, the World Health Organization declared the situation an international health emergency. Experimental drugs were cautiously put to use to try to treat those infected, but what was urgently needed to stop the spread was a vaccine. Now, 12 months on, it looks very much like we have one.
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