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Why Ending Malaria May Be More About Backhoes Than Bed Nets
Wiping out malaria is still a top goal for many leaders in global health.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, infrastructure
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Can telcos predict Mobile Money hotspots?
A study by CGAP looks at the relationship between voice call routes and money transfer, trying to help telcos focus their investment in mobile money solutions.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Banks feud with Zimbabwe’s biggest telco
The sources say the situation, if not resolved, promises to get messy, as indications are that the banks would stop transacting with Steward Bank on the RTGS platform.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Better funding call for vital drug approval programme
Without the prequalification programme of the World Health Organisation, Africa could have bad drugs or no drugs for HIV and TB, but this vital service for assessing medicine quality needs secure funds for the future, say experts
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Heifer International Receives $25.5m Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya plans heavy penalties for rogue mobile subscribers and operators
Kenya plans to tame rogue mobile subscribers and operators through stiffer penalties in a new set of laws to be published this week.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, mobile finance
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Ethiopia breaking new technology ground
At the beginning of 2013 when Ethiopia’s government approved mobile money in the country, allowing banks and micro-finance institutions to provide transaction-based banking online.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ghana to limit microfinance licenses
Bank of Ghana (BoG) seeks to put a ceiling on the rising number of microfinance companies in the country.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, microfinance
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