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Birth Registrations Plummet in Wake of Ebola Epidemic
Liberia’s Ebola epidemic may have subsided but its after-effects are still being felt, with tens of thousands of infants going unregistered at birth, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF says.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Safaricom Won’t Let Rivals Share M-Pesa
Safaricom has maintained it will not allow its mobile money platform, M-Pesa, to be spun off from the parent company, citing security risks for subscribers due to lack of clear guidelines and standards on cross-network cash transfers.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Across Africa, a New Kind of Container Garden Is Changing Women’s Lives
Some people have the talent to take a simple idea and adapt it into a solution with far-reaching benefits. Take Veronica Kanyango of Zimbabwe, a grassroots organizer who works in home-based health care and hospice for people with HIV/AIDS. She’s managed to take a couple of bags full or dirt and turn them into an agrarian movement.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Posta Uganda to Launch Financial Services
Posta Uganda will launch financial services to use its country wide postal networks to promote financial inclusion especially the unbanked rural communities.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Physician “Brain Drain” From Sub-Saharan Africa to the US
A recent PLOS One research article, "Monitoring Sub-Saharan African Physician Migration and Recruitment Post-Adoption of the WHO Code of Practice: Temporal and Geographic Patterns in the United States," examined how the migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States for work has led to a dire health worker shortage in the region.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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President Obama Announces Major Progress Through Feed the Future Initiative
On July 28 President Obama announced that Feed the Future, his signature global hunger and food security initiative, is delivering on his promise to reduce hunger and malnutrition through agricultural development. New data demonstrate that, thanks in part to Feed the Future and other U.S. Government efforts, stunting rates have declined in Ethiopia, Ghana, and parts of Kenya by between 9 and 33 percent in recent years, while areas in Uganda have seen a 16 percent drop in poverty.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Central Bank of Nigeria Sets Aside N252 Billion For Women-owned Businesses
According to the CBN , the facility is dedicated to small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs), and is meant to deepen and increase access to credit and reduce the high cost of funds for women-owned businesses across the country.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microsoft’s CEO Celebrated the Worldwide Launch of Windows 10 in… Nairobi
Of all the 190 countries where Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system launched yesterday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella chose to spend the day in Kenya. His visit came just days after the conclusion of the US-sponsored Global Entrepreneurship Summit and a state visit by president Barack Obama, where he hailed technology for “changing the way Africa is doing business.”
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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