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When Doctors Can’t Reach Sick People in Madagascar, They Send This Medicine-Carrying Drone
Due to the continued use of drone strikes by the military, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are often associated more with ending lives than saving them. That’s a trend researchers at Stony Brook University want to help reverse.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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25 Places to Raise Funding for Your African Tech Startup
African tech startups raised at least US $185.7 million in funding in 2015, and the signs are that 2016 is set to be another big year. Not sure where to look for investment? We’ll make it easy for you with this list of 25 good places to start.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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This Young African Social Entrepreneur Is Taking Her Social Business to the Next Level
Recently named by Forbes as one of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs under 30, her vision is to help women create paths out of poverty and to break the cycle of child marriage and lost potential. Chilemba founded Tiwale, a for-profit social enterprise in Malawi when she was just 17.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BREAKING: MTN Launches MoKash – Mobile Money Savings and Loans
Until late last evening, the company’s representatives were still handing out invitations to a launch event, happening this morning and expected to be graced by Uganda’s head of state, H. E. Yoweri Museveni, according to the invitation cards.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Piloting Portable Ultrasounds in Rural Ghana
For women living in rural locations in Ghana, portable ultrasounds may be a useful tool in preventing pregnancy complications. Although the World Health Organization recommends that pregnant women have at least four antenatal care visits and skilled attendants at birth, many pregnant women in rural communities in low-income countries do not meet these recommendations.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria clamps down on money transfers to the country
The Central Bank of Nigeria has suddenly changed its policy toward money transfer operators, effectively blocking many services used by Nigerians to send money to and from the country.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- cash transfers
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Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa announces over $800,000 grant to Esoko Ghana for agriculture
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), has announced an $867,788 grant to Esoko Ghana for the implementation of MasterCard Foundation project to boost agro input supply for smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Wearable HIV ‘Trap’ Is Helping Women In Africa Guard Against Infection
The struggle to stem the global HIV/AIDS pandemic may soon see relief from an innovative health product that’s shown early success with one group whose infection rates are among the most devastating: young women of southern Africa.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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