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Viewpoint: As the Continent Digitizes Rapidly, Africans Need a Bill of Data Rights to Protect Them Online
It’s high time Africans viewed privacy and protection of the data that pertains to us, as critical to our security, success and progress both individually and collectively.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- human rights
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African Development Bank launches Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility
The African Development Bank and its partners on Wednesday launched the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), designed to aid safety and expansion of digital financial transactions in Africa.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More Than 2,300 Cataract Surgeries With Cameroon Cataract Bond
Financially the hospital is performing better than anticipated after its first year and is on track to become financially sustainable within five years.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How This Entrepreneur Wants To Connect Africa’s Economy To The World Using Diamonds
“If Africa manages to ride the crypto wave on time, then the opportunities are endless. They’ve already got an infrastructure self-designed to accommodate electronic money; now they just need to embrace decentralisation,” says Jeremy Dahan.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- cryptocurrency
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MTN Introduces Africa’s ‘First’ AI Service For Mobile Money
The AI mobile money “assistant” enables customers to engage with MTN’s MoMo services, including payments, on various social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and via SMS.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Gets Its First Microfinance Bank for Education
“If you fund education, you are touching all sectors of the economy, Two-thirds of Nigerians send their children to private schools. The public school system is inadequate to meet the growing population so the private sector has a role to play to ensure that everybody is educated.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Airtel Africa to raise $750 million via IPO to reduce debt
Airtel Africa has a presence in 14 countries in Africa. As on December 31, 2018, Airtel Africa was the second largest mobile operator in Africa by number of active subscribers, according to Ovum.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Nigeria’s Unreliable Electricity Costs Its Economy $29 Billion a Year—Solar Power Would Save Billions
This unreliable power supply is a major hindrance to Nigeria’s economic growth. It also costs the country an enormous amount of money.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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