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Reaching the Base of the Pyramid — and cutting carbon in the process
Ghana’s per capita income is $31 a week, according to the World Bank. But the roughly 500 female farmers who cultivate and harvest the leaves of moringa oleifera trees in the Tamale region of the West African nation earn five times that amount. That's because the women supply ground leaves of the nutrient-rich moringa plant to Oakland-based Kuli Kuli Foods, which markets and sells energy bars, teas and nutrition supplement powders made from the "superfood" at stores including Whole Foods.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: MoneyGram Expands Mobile Money Choices in Africa
New agreement enables customers to receive money directly to M-Pesa accounts in Tanzania.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Safaricom plays hardball in Equitel-M-Pesa Battle
In one single move, Safaricom has potentially pulled the rug from under Equity Bank's poorly hidden plan to eat their lunch, dinner and breakfast.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smartphones help Tanzanian women secure land rights
In an effort to help Tanzania's authorities secure village land rights, USAID launched a project to map geographic and demographic data using mobile phone technology, with the aim of speeding up land rights registration.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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West Africa’s air pollution is reaching dangerously high levels—and we don’t know the worst of it
In Lagos, smog has quickly become another aspect of city life. In the city of more than 21 million people – known to some as “Africa’s first city” – the majority of residents live near industrial plants, breathing in exhaust from thousands of cars and millions of generators providing power to the city.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Meet Moringa, The African Superfood That’s Healthier Than Kale
It's packed with calcium, protein, and vitamins — and putting it in your smoothie will also send money to African farmers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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5 tech startup ideas that Kenya can export
Having pioneered mobile money solutions like MPesa and crowd-sourcing platform Ushahidi, Kenya’s innovative, resilient and global-looking tech community is working on the next big thing.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Consumers lose out as Safaricom and Equity tariff wars intensify
A fresh storm is brewing between Kenya’s financial services giants, Safaricom and Equity Bank, over the rates being levied to consumers making transactions across the two service providers.
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