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PRESS RELEASE: Western Union Expands Mobile Money Transfer Network in Nigeria
New relationship with Paga gives more than 1.2 million Paga subscribers access to Western Union services.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sustainable Investing Comes of Age in South Africa
In recent years, the idea of analysing companies using more than just financial indicators has moved into the mainstream.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bottom Of The Pyramid Overspending On Mobile Services in Africa
Expert at a World Consumer Rights Day event in Nairobi said on Friday poor African’s are spending too much on mobile phone services to the extent of foregoing basic needs, ITWeb Africa reported.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NGOs Launch New Tool to Map Water and Sanitation in Kenya’s Largest Slum
With an estimated 1.2-million residents, Kibera is Africa’s second largest and one of the biggest slums in the world with some of the poorest living conditions
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Improving Global Health, One Text at a Time
AMREF Kenya receives matching grant for mHealth Project
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$23M Award at Notre Dame Fights Malaria and Dengue Fever
The grant is the second largest award to a single grant proposal in Notre Dame's history.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: First Access and Vodacom Tanzania Ink Financial Inclusion Deal
Partnership offers financial institutions the ability to purchase instant risk scores from First Access based on prepaid mobile phone records.
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Kopo Kopo Goes International, Ready to Integrate Mobile Money Payments from Merchants Around the World
In an exclusive interview with TechMoran, Ben Lyon of Kopo Kopo said that 2014 is the year of partnering with payment providers to build and manage merchant networks.
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