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Toniic and the ImPact Launch Joint Market RFP for Impact Wealth Management
Two global communities of private wealth holders invite wealth managers worldwide to show how they serve impact investors.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Paratus Lesotho Opens for Business With Starlink
Paratus Lesotho will provide high-speed internet services backed by local customer and technical support and offers Starlink enterprise connectivity alongside Paratus network solutions to businesses and organisations across the Kingdom of Lesotho.
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- Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: More and Better Jobs Key to Putting Poverty Reduction Back on Track
The report notes that extreme poverty remains concentrated: More than half of the world's extremely poor live in just nine economies, and by 2030 an estimated 87% are projected to live in Sub-Saharan Africa or in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda’s Newman Foods Secures US$3 Million Loan to Expand Processing Capacity
The company sources raw materials from more than 3,000 smallholder farmers across Uganda and sells to thousands of formal retail chains and informal market vendors.
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- Agriculture, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GCCE and WDI Hold Stakeholder Consultations on Financing Ghana’s Electric Two-Wheeler Industry
The findings and recommendations from the workshop will inform a forthcoming public report to be jointly developed by GCCE and WDI.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google.org Grants $2.5 Million to Helium Health for AI-Powered Maternal Care
Nigerian health tech startup, Helium Health, has received a $2.5 million (N3.4 billion) grant from Google.org to deploy clinical AI models into primary maternal healthcare.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TNB, IOI Corp, SMEs to Develop 500 MW Solar Project in Negeri Sembilan
The scheme facilitates the supply of renewable electricity from developers directly to corporate consumers through the open-access electricity supply network in Peninsular Malaysia.
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- Energy
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: How Ambani’s Jio Became India’s Second-Largest Company
Mukesh Ambani’s Jio upended India’s telecoms market with free data and crushed its competition. Now, it has made India’s largest-ever stock market debut.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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