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PEG completes $7.5 million round to expand activities in West Africa
PEG, an off-grid solar company in Ghana, announced that it has closed a $7.5 million Series A round. The funding will be used to expand operations in Ghana, build out the management team, and to enter Ivory Coast. PEG has over 10,000 customers and operates 29 service centers in 7 regions of Ghana.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Telcos in Ghana to begin interest payments to mobile money subscribers
Some telecommunication companies are concluding moves to pay interests to their various subscribers once the Bank of Ghana directs on how the payments must be done.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Safaricom, Kenya’s Largest Telecom To Launch Taxi Hailing Service To Compete With Uber
Kenya largest telecom, Safaricom, plans to launch a taxi hailing service, known as Littlecabs, that will compete with Uber in the local market.
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- Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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IFC, CGAP, SECO launch initiative to expand financial inclusion in Ghana
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, together with the State Secretariat of Economic Affairs of Switzerland, SECO, and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, CGAP, on June 8 launched the Ghana Digital Financial Services Initiative to advance financial inclusion in Ghana through the use of new technology and innovative business models.
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In the lab: six innovations scientists hope will end malaria
After being abandoned as too ambitious in 1969, global plans to eliminate malaria are back on the agenda, with financial backing from the world's richest couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, and U.S. President Barack Obama.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analytical chemists schooled on drug development
Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) Pharmaceutical Company has started a one week training workshop for African analytical chemists to equip them with practical skills in Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS).
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- Health Care
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Bill Gates to donate chickens to Africa’s poor
Gates will donate 100,000 birds vaccinated against common diseases under a program he said would boost incomes because chickens are inexpensive to care for, a good investment and help provide nutrition for children.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘There’s no point giving free cancer drugs to Africa’
Giving out free cancer drugs would not help the poorest parts of Africa, the head of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has told the BBC.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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