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Stop charging high interest rates, Bank of Ghana tells MFIs
Microfinance companies have been urged not to charge high, unsustainable interest rates by the Head of Other Financial Institutions Supervision Department of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Mr Raymond Amanfu.
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Bharti Airtel & VeriFone to drive Africa’s mobile money evolution
Bharti Airtel and VeriFone Mobile Money have reached an agreement to offer VeriFone Mobile Money’s merchant enablement applications for mobile Tap n Pay across Airtel’s 17 operating countries in Africa.
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Liberian Natives Work To Fight Ebola Outbreak From Boston
In Boston, some natives of Liberia are working to improve sanitation conditions and train health workers on the ground in their homeland, as the country and two of its neighbors battle a deadly Ebola outbreak.
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Ending M-Pesa’s solo story
M-Pesa lacks interoperability with any of the rival services run by the country’s three other operators: Airtel, Orange and yuMobile. But Safaricom is now under pressure to change its ways.
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Zimbabwe’s Econet Wireless and the making of Africa’s first cashless society
Will Zimbabwe be Africa’s first cashless society?Strive Masiyiwa, founder of the pan-African telecommunications company, talks about extending finance to the unbanked.
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Armed Men Raid Liberia Ebola Quarantine Center
A group of young men armed with clubs, claiming that "there's no Ebola" in Liberia, raided a quarantine center for the deadly disease in Monrovia overnight, prompting about 20 patients infected with the deadly virus to flee, a witness said Sunday.
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Mobile Midwifery Delivers Health to Ghanaian Moms
One mobile phone app delivers time-sensitive text messages or voicemails to pregnant women and new mothers; the other is for nurses. Together they are doing wonders for maternal and pregnancy health care and raising community awareness at the same time.
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Your Coffee Is Getting Fancier, But Is It Getting Better For The World?
Fair-Trade certified coffee has become known as an easy way for coffee drinkers to make the world a better place for coffee growers, many of whom are among the world’s poorest people. But a study released in April 2014 seriously questions how much fair-trade certification really does for them.
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