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OPINION: Rwanda: How Energy Can Contribute Towards Poverty Alleviation
WE LIVE in interesting times when so much is happening in terms of development. However, there are curious contradictions that undermine our journey to the Promised Land; development.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ChildFund, MasterCard Foundation, launch nurse-training program for Zambian youth
Innovative $7.6 million e-learning program will train 6,000 young people to become nurses and midwives and expand capacity of nursing schools in Zambia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola outbreak could infect 20,000 people, WHO says
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect over 20,000 people and spread to more countries, the U.N. health agency said on Thursday, warning that an international effort costing almost half a billion dollars is needed to overcome the outbreak.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GSK Announces Commitment to Improving Access to Vaccines With 5-year Price Freeze
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that it will freeze the prices of its vaccines for five years for developing countries that graduate from GAVI Alliance support. By committing to offer GAVI Alliance prices for vaccines against pneumonia, diarrhoea and cervical cancer, GSK will support developing country governments as they transition to financing the full cost of their local vaccination programmes.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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East Africa: Safaricom Gets GSMA Support in Mobile Cash War With Equity
Safaricom has received critical support in its bid to stop Equity Bank from using embedded SIM cards for the mobile banking and money transfer service the lender plans to introduce in the Kenyan market.
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The Financial Inclusion Game Changer
Today, MasterCard is launching a ground-breaking program in Nigeria with the cooperation of the Nigerian government. This program uniquely combines a national ID card with electronic payments. Daniel Monehin, MasterCard’s Division President for Sub-Saharan Africa, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to discuss why today is a such significant day in payments for Nigeria and why this program has the potential to be the financial inclusion game changer everywhere in the world.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Redesigning Birth Control in the Developing World
How single-use injectable contraceptives could change family planning in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Airtel, Tigo claim mobile money first
Two operators in Tanzania launched a service so that subscribers to their rival mobile money services can send and receive cash with one another.Airtel and Tigo claim it is the world’s first cross-network mobile money transfer service.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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