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Half of World’s Rural Populations Cannot Access Health Care
More than half the population of rural areas worldwide do not have access to basic health care, with four in five rural Africans lacking services, the United Nations said Monday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DfID Accused of Heightening Inequality Through Support for Private Sector
Report by campaign group Global Justice Now points finger at Department for International Development over private health and education projects.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Malaria Day: 5 Breakthroughs in Fighting the Disease
Globally, 3.3 billion people in 106 countries are at risk of malaria. In 2013, only one in five African children with malaria received effective treatment, 15 million pregnant women did not receive a single dose of preventative drugs and an estimated 278 million in Africa still live in households with no insecticide-treated bed net, according to the World Health Organization.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Safaricom to Open M-Pesa APIs, Completes Data Center Migration From Germany to Kenya
After two years of intercontinental conference calls, eight test runs and countless hours put in by 320 consultants, Safaricom has successfully migrated its mobile money platform to its data center in Kenya and is expecting to provide better services.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda Launches Cross-Border Mobile Money Remittance Service
MTN Rwanda, one of Rwanda’s leading mobile network operators, Sunday announced the launch of a pioneering cross-border Mobile Money remittance service between Rwanda and Kenya.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ugandan MPs Ask Government for Greater Mobile Money Regulation
Members of Parliament grilled Information, Communication Technology (ICT) state minister, Nyombi Thembo over lack of a law to regulate mobile money services and safeguard clients’ money.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- regulations
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Study: Ebola Outbreak Likely Driving Malaria Deaths
The collapse of health services in three west African countries devastated by Ebola may have caused some 11,000 additional deaths from malaria, a preventable and curable disease, researchers said Friday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mali’s Farmers Count on National Fund to Expand Climate Insurance
A lack of rain in the middle of last season caused Seydou Diarassouba's sorghum crop to fail.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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