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Global MFI Investors Shift Focus from Asia to Africa
With the MFIs realigning their fund allocations, South Asia, the traditional microfinance hub, is facing challenge from Africa for the first time
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Off Grid Electric gets $7M to ‘light Africa in a decade’
Why do more people live without electricity today than when Edison turned on the first light bulb?For as long as he can remember, Xavier Helgesen has been fascinated with this question. And today, he landed $7 million in financing for his Arusha, Tanzania-based venture, Off Grid Electric, which provides solar energy to people in emerging nations.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Insurers are Looking to Kenya’s Low-Income Earners for New Business
Low-income earners have traditionally been underserved when it comes to being provided with avenues to manage the risks they face every day.
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How Millennium Challenge Corp. Partnership Will Help PEPFAR ‘go local’ in South Africa
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the U.S. Agency for International Development work together to help strengthen public health systems in South Africa by funding ARV distribution and equipment.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, supply chains
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Ebola Outbreak in Guinea May Spread to Liberia
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is believed to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea and may already have spread to neighboring Liberia, health officials said Monday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial Literacy Crucial to Nigeria’s Economic Growth
Financial literacy among Nigerians especially the young people will foster economic growth and development even as the country seeks the attainment of financial inclusion in the economy,
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Accion Microfinance Bank Share capital Reaches N1.205bn in Nigeria
The micro finance bank’s robust financial base reflects on over N21.7billion disbursed in loans to more than 110,000 customers since inception.
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Kenya’s Safaricom Plans to Disrupt Mobile Market with Contactless Transactions
For a successful deployment, Safaricom is expected to build an NFC infrastructure countrywide, just like it did with its mobile money agents so as its subscribers can pay for services and buy goods anywhere in the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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