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MTN Group to Invest $215 Million in Benin’s Infrastructure After a Successful 5g Trial
MTN Group has committed to investing $215 million in infrastructure in the Republic of Benin over the next three years.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: IFC Invests in Africa50 Fund to Support Sustainable Infrastructure Development in Africa
The fund aims to invest in projects across Africa, where the private sector is playing an important role supporting infrastructure development.
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- Energy, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Top Smartphone Seller Transsion Is the World’s Fastest Growing Phone Maker
Transsion, the top smartphone seller in Africa, posted the highest annual growth in smartphone shipments in 2023 of the top five phone makers in the world.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Honduras Obtains $40 Million World Bank Loan to Digitize Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, Expand ID Verification
The project aims to automate the central American nation’s civil registry, prompt an increase in birth registration and the issuance of identification credentials to children, and then extend digital ID verification services to all of the country’s citizens.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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MTN to Disconnect Globacom Customers over 15 Years of Interconnect Debt in Nigeria
The NCC in a notice on Monday, said it has now approved partial disconnection of Globacom from MTN Nigeria Communications Plc due to non-settlement of interconnect charges.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Job Growth is More than Digital Job Growth: Why Both Online and Offline Enterprises Deserve Investor Support
The appeal of the tech-driven economy can be hard for investors to resist. But Liliosa Mbirimi at the Leila Janah Foundation argues that focusing exclusively on the digital realm can exclude many offline entrepreneurs that are making major contributions to job creation in emerging markets. She discusses the need for investors to support both digital and non-digital entrepreneurs, and shares learnings from the Foundation's efforts to provide this support in Kenya and Uganda.
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- Investing, Technology
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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2023: Announcing the Three Winners of our Annual Contest
As 2024 gets underway, we'd like to announce the results of NextBillion’s annual “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest. This year's contest featured a strong slate of articles, covering a diverse array of topics ranging from systems change to decarbonization, in sectors that included energy, agriculture, finance and more. We've highlighted the three winners, as selected by our readers, in this article.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, WASH
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World Bank Helps Gabon Finance Digital Transformation Project with $68.5 Million Loan
The project aims at create an environment conducive to accelerating digital transformation.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa