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Viewpoint: Nigeria Needs to Close the Financial Inclusion Gap for Women Smallholder Farmers
Women smallholder farmers in Nigeria are involved in all aspects of agriculture. Yet, because they are women, they are held back by unequal access to resources that would help them become more successful.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Coming Soon – Mondato Summit Africa 2020: Beyond Access – Generating Value Through Digital Inclusion
Advisory firm Mondato, in partnership with Financial Sector Deepening Mozambique and the Mozambican telecoms regulator, ARECOM, will host its seventh annual digital finance and fintech executive conference, Mondato Summit Africa, in Maputo, Mozambique, on March 31st and April 1st.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Umeme Kicks Off a Global Partnership Pilot to Identify New Approaches to Clean Energy Access in Uganda
Umeme Limited, Makerere University, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Power for All – a global charity dedicated to accelerating the end of energy poverty – and a coalition of energy companies launched an integrated energy pilot to test new ways of accelerating energy access, stimulating customer demand and improving grid performance in Uganda that will primarily benefit poor and rural areas.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Grapples with Clean Energy Conundrum
Africa is both the world's least electrified continent and the most vulnerable to climate change - the conundrum is how to meet the demand for energy without making the climate situation worse.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AWS partners with Kenya’s Safaricom on cloud, consulting services
Amazon Web Services has entered a partnership with Safaricom — Kenya’s largest telco, ISP and mobile payment provider — in a collaboration that could spell competition between American cloud providers in Africa.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sokowatch Raises $14M to Digitize Africa’s Informal B2B Supply-Chain
Informal retail is still king in Africa — even with the emergence of shopping malls and well-funded e-commerce ventures, such as Jumia.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce, startups, supply chains
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Senegal’s New Start-Up Laws to Favor Women Entrepreneurs
According to the project manager at Senegal’s $50 million state fund for start-ups, Thierno Sakho, the law will unleash the talent of young entrepreneurs to have a real social impact.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy, startups
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MTN Adds Vodacom Tanzania to its Cross Border Money Remittance Service
The partnership sees MTN Uganda adding Vodacom Tanzania to the list of telecom partners with whom customers can do mobile money transactions in the East African region.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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