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Small businesses in Kenya embrace mobile money payments
Small business operators in Kenya have for many years resisted mobile money payments as they preferred cash transactions.
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Vodacom Tanzania, CBA launch mobile money banking product
Vodacom Tanzania and Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) have launched a banking service named M-Pawa allowing Tanzanians to save and borrow money on their mobile phones.
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Africa Analysis: Getting telemedicine informed consent
Telemedicine could boost healthcare in rural Africa, but it has informed consent challenges, writes Linda Nordling.
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Promoting Access to Finance in Nigeria
The introduction of the tiered Know-Your-Customer regime for potential bank customers will drive the country’s quest for improved access to finance, writes Obinna ChimaIn most developing countries, large population of low income earners has little access to financial services.
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Africa: Neglected Tropical Diseases Treatments Hit 1 Billion Mark
Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) May 8 celebrated its support of the delivery of 1 billion neglected tropical disease (NTD) treatments that are helping more than 465 million people in 25 countries in some of the world's poorest populations.
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Africa Progress Report Asks Governments To Promote Mobile Banking
A new report has urged African governments to emulate Kenya in supporting the development of mobile banking and electronic commerce to increase financial inclusion.
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Acumen and Dow Chemical Advance Technical Assistance Initiative to Support Social Enterprises Across Africa
Acumen, with support from Dow, Unilever and Barclays hosts their second annual Technical Assistance (TA) Initiative Summit from May 5-7 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit is the second gathering in support of Acumen’s TA Initiative aimed at accelerating the development and distribution of crucial products and services in agriculture, water, sanitation and energy across East and West Africa.
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1,000 Days: The Period That Decides the Health and Wealth of the World
A globetrotting investigation into the biggest new idea in international development.
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