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Viewpoint: How Africa Can Ride the Growing Wave of Climate Tech Investment
Investing in climate tech will be critical to countering these risks and to building adaptive and resilient economies.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Tetra Tech Wins $25 Million Usaid Water and Sanitation Contract
Through the USAID Tanzania Water and Sanitation Activity, Tetra Tech’s team of industry leading water and sanitation experts will provide engineering and technical advisory services to strengthen Tanzania’s capacity to manage water resources.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: From Supply to Demand: Changing the Approach in Africa’s Food Economy
Boston Consulting Group insists that the model that has always been relied upon in Africa, where the supply side of the food economy has been the focus by stakeholders (including policymakers), could be changed for a long-term solution.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- food security
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Africa Tries to End Vaccine Inequity by Replicating Its Own
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Networks Partner to Catalyze Impact Investing in Africa
Leading investor networks join forces to connect investors and increase financing of African enterprises that create positive social and environmental impact.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Alsoug Raises $5 Million in First Foreign Funding Into Sudanese Tech in 30 Years
While an African country like Nigeria has recorded close to 50 investment deals this year alone, this investment round marks the first foreign venture capital investment into the Sudanese tech ecosystem.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Asante Closes First Tranche of $7.5 Million Series a Funding to Bridge the Gap in MSMEe Lending in Africa
Asante Financial Services Group announces $7.5 million Series A investment anchored by Goodwell Investments with participation by other investors including Sorenson Impact Foundation and Forsage Holdings.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- financial inclusion, fintech, MSMEs, scale
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Mastercard partners with Digital PayGo to drive secure payments for SMEs in Zambia
Mastercard has partnered with Zambian-based fintech company, Digital PayGo, to launch a new merchant mobile payments solution, which will enable Small and Medium Enterprises to safely make and receive digital payments through various online channels.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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