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Press Release: VisionFund International Brings Financial Inclusion to Refugees in West Nile Settlements
VisionFund is the first microfinance organisation to serve refugee groups at scale with group loans in Palorinya settlement.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Nations Impose Stricter Measures as Coronavirus Spreads
Though the continent is still far behind Europe and Asia in the total numbers of Covid-19 cases, the disease has now reached about half of its countries.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard Report: Pay-on-Demand Will Drive Financial Inclusion in Africa
The Pay-on-Demand solution model will continue to drive digital and financial inclusion across African countries, according to a recent research report released by MasterCard.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- financial inclusion, MSMEs
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A Senegalese Innovation Lab Is Helping the UK Develop a 10-Minute Coronavirus Test Kit
If successfully developed and validated, a much faster way to test and diagnose Covid-19 could prove critical as the virus continues to spread globally with confirmed cases now surpassing 120,000.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Enterprise Ghana begins advocacy for impact investing policy
Social Enterprise Ghana with funding from BUSAC, DANIDA and USAID has begun advocacy to ensure policymakers and government pass and adopt the social enterprise and impact investing policy. According to Edwin Zu-Cudjoe, the Executive Director of Social Enterprise Ghana, the policy will enable the over 28,000 social enterprises operating in the country to be recognised as such and be able to register as social enterprises with the Registrar General's Department.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Investors Back Field Intelligence on Transforming Healthcare Supply Chain
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- Press Release
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains
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Visa Partners With Paga on Payments and Fintech for Africa and Abroad
The collaboration reflects a strategy of the American financial services giant to expand in Africa working with the continent’s top startups.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech, startups
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If Given $100, Half of Young Africans Would Use It to Start a Business, Survey Says
Social entrepreneurship was also a popular theme among young people in Africa, according to the survey, with 63% saying that their idea for a business or social enterprise would benefit those living in their community.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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