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Secret to Nigeria’s success in overcoming Ebola: ORS
Aggressive use of ORS is being credited with significantly reducing the mortality rate among those who contracted Ebola in Nigeria.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Mobile Money for the Poor Expanded to Enable Millions in Africa to Access Financial Services
UNCDF, the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs),has partnered with The MasterCard Foundation to expand a flagship program that will enable three million low-income clients in Africa to access mobile financial services for the first time.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Equity’s year-long thin SIM ‘live test’ will go on in Kenya, industry regulators tell MPs
Nairobi, Kenya: Central Bank Governor Njuguna Ndung’u and senior officials of the Communications Authority (CA) yesterday told MPs that the rollout of Equity Bank's Thin SIM on a trial basis for the next one year would not be stopped.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Airtel, Apollo to drive telemedicine in Nigeria
Nigeria’s third largest telecoms firm, Airtel, has partnered one of the largest integrated healthcare providers in the world, Apollo Hospitals, to enhance access to world-class healthcare services in Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Jovago, Unicef Partner to Enhance Infant Registration in Africa
Jovago.com - an online hotel booking company- and UNICEF have launched a partnership with the aim of ensuring official birth registration of every child born in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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EU Offers $1bn Development Capital To Three African Countries
European Union (EU) has given three African countries Lesotho, Togo and Zambia over $1 billion for economic development under its National Indicative Programmes (NIP).
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Liberians have another challenge – marginalization
"How is it that we have again become the marginalized of the earth?" That is what people ask Bishop Anthony Borwah of Gbarnga, in Liberia, the country most affected by the outbreak of Ebola.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Innovative Collaboration Aims to Bring Greater Transparency to Sub-Saharan Microfinance
Aiming to bring greater transparency to microfinance across Sub-Saharan Africa, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), The MasterCard Foundation and Moody’s Analytics have launched an innovative collaboration to use Moody’s Analytics’ social performance assessments (SPA) to help microfinance institutions better measure and manage their long-term social impact.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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