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CEO and Co-founder of I-Dev International killed in Nairobi attack
I-DEV has worked with many Kenya tech companies and in 45 countries with more than 300 investors, companies, NGOs, and DFIs to build leading, high impact businesses and a stronger private sector in emerging markets.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Future Is in Africa, and China Knows It
Although securing access to natural resources is surely one of China’s goals, its investments in Africa go beyond extractive industries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Central Bank of Nigeria unveils strategy to achieve 80% financial inclusion
The CBN stated that “the major goal of this revised strategy is to reduce the proportion of adult Nigerians that are financially excluded to 20 percent in year 2020 from it baseline figure of 46.3 percent in 2010.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: BBOXX lands USD 31 million deal with Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers
The deal with AIIM – Africa’s largest and most experienced infrastructure-focused private equity fund manager and a member of Old Mutual Alternative Investments with USD 2.1 billion AUM – will allow BBOXX to install two million solar systems by 2022, bringing electricity to 10 million people in these African countries.
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- Press release
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How the African diaspora can help the continent achieve the SDGs
With a progressive awareness of the need for a sustainable African development agenda driven by Africans, the African diaspora could provide the other half of the equation needed to turn the SDGs from aspiration to concrete reality.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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M-Pesa to offer cash advances to clients
Safaricom users can now pay for goods and services even when they lack enough funds, piling pressure on conventional banks.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Softens Rules Shielding Banks From Wireless Rivals
The central bank may have realized it can’t rely on lenders alone to achieve its objective of extending services to the 50 million adults still without a bank account in the nation of about 200 million people.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Ethiopia’s wheat yields are among the worst in Africa, this is what it is doing to change this
Many farmers fail to adopt modern inputs or farming techniques that would increase productivity due to several constraints, such as lack of available technology, limited liquidity, high perceived risk, constrained access to information, and poorly functioning output markets.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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