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A Merry-Go-Round That Turns The Power Of Play Into Electricity in rural Ghana
Empower Playgrounds is providing electricity-generating playground equipment to impoverished schools in rural Ghana.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile money meets credit card in Ghana
MTN and Visa have partnered to offer customers a mobile payment solution which allows MTN Mobile Money users to make face-to-face and online transactions wherever Visa is accepted.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Kenya’s mobile leaders are optimistic about 2014
MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, today launched the first report of a three-country African Growth Market Study on mobile content and commerce.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African consumers slow to use advances in money
Distrust of mobile payments costs bank customers money for every transfer they make.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Clinics Bring Health Care to the Countryside in South Africa
South Africa has a serious lack of healthcare facilities in rural areas but some new solar-powered mobile clinics are changing that.
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- Energy, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- reproductive health, solar
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Do For-Profit Schools Give Poor Kenyans A Real Choice?
Bridge International Academies has set up more than 200 schools in Kenya over the past four years, and plans to open 50 more in January. Using a school-in-a-box model, Bridge's founders say it gives primary schoolkids a quality education for roughly $5 a month.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Coke, pressed by Oxfam, pledges zero tolerance for land grabs in sugar supply chain
Coca-Cola has agreed to review its top sugar suppliers to ensure that the company does not buy from large plantations that were assembled using “land-grab” tactics that evict small farmers or local residents, the company announced this week.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Women’s access to life-saving contraception increases in Kenya
There are 222 million women in developing countries who wish to prevent or delay childbirth but who are not using modern contraceptives, according to the World Health Organization.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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