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Press Release: Kenyan Ministry of Health Selects GE as a Strategic Partner to Support Healthcare Modernization Program
As part of a wide-scale healthcare transformation program, one of the largest of its kind in Africa, the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced GE Healthcare as a key strategic technology and solutions partner, following the conclusion of an open tender process.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial Inclusion: Equity Bank, Master Card Launch New Prepaid Card in Kenya
In a manner of speaking, Africa can mentor the rest of the world on mobile money based on the number of such solutions that have been successfully planted on the continent in the past half-decade. In a very recent development, Equity Bank Kenya has, in conjunction with MasterCard, launched a prepaid card with the central aim of deepening the cash lite economy in the east African country.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pay-As-You-Go Solar Power Takes Off in Africa
In Kenya the cell phone is being used to transform the way that people consume energy. M-KOPA Solar – the word 'kopa' is Swahili for 'borrowed' – is a Nairobi-based business that has pioneered the idea of "pay-as-you-go" solar energy in Africa.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, solar
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Tanzanians to Enjoy Africa’s First Universal Mobile Money Service
Global telecommunications and media firm Millicom has announced today that following an agreement with Vodacom's M-Pesa service, Tigo Pesa customers in Tanzania will be the first in Africa to be able to transact with users of all their country's mobile money networks.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Banking Africa’s Unbanked Population is Not the Solution to Improved Inclusion
Banking Africa’s unbanked population–adults who don’t use formal banks or semi-formal microfinance institutions to save or borrow money–may not be the solution to providing wider access to financial products and services.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Central Bank of Nigeria to Establish Regulatory Council for Islamic Finance
The CBN said, “An essential governance structure and element of regulatory oversight for institutions offering non-interest (Islamic) financial services is the establishment of an advisory body at the level of the Central Bank to provide assurance that the strategic direction and conduct of financial transactions of Non-Interest (Islamic) Financial Institutions (NIFIs) are in compliance with the rules and principles underpinning their operations.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- regulations
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The Upside of Ebola May Be Vaccines
They don’t have the name recognition of Ebola, but lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis are killer viruses in developing countries. Big killers. Indeed, combined with other illnesses like malaria and pneumonia, infectious diseases account for 1 in 7 deaths worldwide. But good luck trying to convince drug companies to put resources and funds into developing vaccines for most of them: Diseases in poor countries don’t make for lucrative markets.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vodafone Supports Healthcare with Immunization Tracker “App”
Vodafone Ghana, a telecommunications company, has partnered the Legon Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS) to roll out a mobile application “app” that aids child healthcare delivery and immunization.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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