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AstraZeneca Targets Africa Sales Boost
AstraZeneca Plc, the U.K.’s second-largest drugmaker, plans to increase sales in Africa by almost 10 percent a year as the company seeks to capitalize on efforts by governments to improve health-care systems and fight conditions such as high blood pressure and cholesterol.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Approves Adoption of Agent Banking
The Reserve Bank has approved the adoption of agent banking by financial institutions as part of efforts to increase access to financial services, governor Dr John Mangudya said.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WorldRemit Raises $45M to Tackle $600B Market
Remittances start-up WorldRemit has raised $45 million in debt to help it tap the business of using mobile wallets to send money across emerging markets.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, remittances
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African Equity Crowdfunding Portal Launches Call for Applications
Impact-focused equity crowdfunding portal Malaik has launched a call for applications to African entrepreneurs with impact focused businesses, aiming to help connect businesses with investors.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Move Over Facebook: WeChat Is Set to Become the Only App African Internet Users Need
As technology hubs from Silicon Valley to Bangalore work hard at devising digital approaches to finance that could alter the global banking landscape, mobile banking penetration in China has already exceeded390 million people. And for Chinese-owned Tencent Holdings, the world's fifth largest Internet company, China's 1.3 billion-strong market is just the beginning. The tech giant's best-known social network, WeChat, is fast gaining traction in Africa, and mobile banking is one area in which its influence is spreading.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Future Looks Gloomy for Ghana’s Microfinance Institutions
THE future looks gloomy for Ghana’s microfinance institutions as the country’s central bank cracks the whip on fly-night lenders that have mushroomed across the country.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pro-Poor Health Initiative Expands Across Africa
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory, inflammation, autoimmune, oncology, infection and neuroscience diseases.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovative Partnerships Models to Advance Nutrition and Security
The food system is an essential part our lives in many respects. It is a very complex, integrated network that comprises not only supply chains of big companies, but also the institutions, the businesses and the people involved in the production, consumption, and distribution of the food we need to live healthy and productive lives. It also provides an income source for billions of people, many of whom are poor, and it is one of the largest users of the world's natural resources. The food system is essential to not only maintain healthy lives, but also for global health security.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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