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Kenya’s Equity Bank gets court backing to roll out thin SIM technology
After a year-long court battle, Equity Bank can finally go ahead and roll out its thin Sim technology in Kenya.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Tanzania surpasses financial inclusion target
TANZANIA has surpassed its financial inclusion target of 50 per cent, some two years ahead of deadline in 2016, thanks to mobile transaction platform.
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South Africa: KZN Launches Human Milk Banks
Far too few South African women practice exclusive breastfeeding and, as a result, far too many children are dying.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Young Founders of STAWI Win $15,000 Thomas J. Bata Legacy Award for Responsible Entrepreneurship in East Africa
At a reception in Nairobi today the Bata Shoe Foundation announced that STAWI, a Kenyan business that processes perishable fruits, grains, and cereals into gluten free flour, is the winner of the $15,000Thomas J. Bata Legacy Award for young responsible entrepreneurship in East Africa. Two runners up - GreenChar and KARIBU Solar Power - received $5,000 each. The Award was established in 2014 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late CEO of the Bata Shoe Organization, known as "Shoemaker to the World." It provides funding and mentoring for young entrepreneurs inEast Africa who demonstrate a commitment to the values that guided Mr. Bata's leadership of the organization for four decades.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vodafone expands Farmers Club to 4 new markets
Vodafone announced that it is launching its Farmers’ Club initiative - which offers a range of mobile services to help farmers in Turkey boost productivity - in India, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Mothers Get A New Kind Of Care In Rural Nigeria
How do you help a country struggling to provide quality health care, particularly to its rural citizens?More doctors would be great. New and better clinics would help. But in some places, community health workers are an important part of the solution.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile money agents ‘making it big’ in Kenya’s rural areas
According to a new report by Helix Institute of Digital Finance, in non-Nairobi urban areas, profitability has increased by 26 percent while in rural areas profits for the agents have gone up by 45 percent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GlaxoSmithKline Invests £5.85m to Train 9,000 Health Workers in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British multinational pharmaceutical company, has rolled out a three- year healthcare programme to support the training of more than 9,000 health workers in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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