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Mobile phone access in Africa set to double in next five years
Eighty percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, industry body group GSMA said Wednesday.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This Startup Gives Poor People a Year’s Income, No Strings Attached
A person whom Teresa had never met showed up at her home one day with a remarkable offer. Teresa and her family would receive what amounted to a year's income, in cash. Nothing was owed in return. She did not have to repay the money, and her family could spend it however they wished.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Motsepe, Schwab Sign 3-year, $1.07 Million Social Entrepreneurship Deal
Hilde Schwab, Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Co-Founder and Deputy Chairman of the Motsepe Foundation, announced a three-year, 1 million Swiss franc partnership on the opening day of the World Economic Forum on Africa. The objectives of the partnership are to advance the social entrepreneurship agenda in Africa by raising awareness, engaging the media and celebrating proven social innovators; contribute to research initiatives on best practices and scaling strategies; and build the capacity of African social enterprises through peer-to-peer exchanges.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Root Capital Announces New $15 Million Lending Facility to Finance African Agricultural Enterprises
The company will finance agricultural enterprises throughout sub-Saharan Africa to enhance local food security and stimulate inclusive economic growth in the region.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda: How Mobile Money Firms Survived Court
On May 29, telecommunications companies dealing in mobile money services got a lifeline after the Commercial court dismissed a case filed by Abdu Katuntu, the member of Parliament for Bugweri county, who had challenged the legality of the services.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Investing in Health, Investing in Africa
Africa faces two key challenges to achieve its full potential. The remarkable economic progress of the last 15 years must be sustained. And, this progress must be broadened to include the many millions of people who have yet to benefit from the continent’s rising prosperity.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, vaccines
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What Does It Really Mean to Build Health Systems?
Over the past year, discussions around dealing with the Ebola outbreak to bringing cases down to zero invariably circled around the need for health systems strengthening.
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- Health Care
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Kenya’s Miti Health hopes for Unreasonable access to mentors, markets
Kenyan startup Miti Health, which provides chemists with business management and supply chain software on the Android platform, hopes taking part in the Unreasonable East Africa accelerator programme in Kampala this summer will allow it to scope out Uganda as a possible expansion market while also gaining to access to investors and mentors.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains
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