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VMK launch ‘first African-designed’ smartphone and tablet
A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have beenlaunched.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Afroindia Introduces Telemedicine For The Underserved
A healthcare service provider in Nigeria, Afroindia Medical Services Limited has signed a memorandum f understanding (MoU) with Apollo Group of Hospitals in India to set up 100 Telemedical centres in West and East Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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JP Morgan-linked firm triples cash in Africert deal
A JP Morgan-linked private equity firm, Pearl Capital Partners (PCP), has exited its investment in a Kenyan agricultural firm in a deal that saw it triple its investment in six years.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFC Announces Partnership to Increase Access to Affordable Sanitation in East Africa
Nairobi, Kenya — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to catalyze the market for improved sanitation and accelerate access to more affordable sanitation solutions for low-income households in East Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Need to Scale: Social Enterprises and Community Health
“Community health workers: Now that is a profession that must be compensated.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Light Africa Within a Decade
Today, when the sun goes down in Africa, over 150 million homes will not turn on the lights. The reason is simple: they don’t have electricity. Instead, they will extend their day by the dim light of kerosene lamps. Families will huddle around these lamps, inhaling the lung-burning equivalent of two packs of cigarettes each from kerosene fumes.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Saving Tanzania’s Poorest Children
DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - Half asleep, Anuary lies exhausted on his bed in Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. His mother, Mariam Saidi, sits on the edge of his mattress, staring blankly out of the window. Every now and then, she turns to wipe her 18-month-old son’s forehead.
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Nigeria: Global Fund Happy With HIV, TB Treatment in Nigeria
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, on Tuesday expressed delight at the level of care and treatment given to persons infected with HIV and tuberculosis in Nigeria.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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