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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Promises to Revive the Country’s Microcredit Sector If He wins Re-Election
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday promised to revive the micro-credit sector of the economy if he wins the February 14, 2015 election.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Know What’s Killing More People in Nigeria Than Boko Haram? Lack of Drinking Water
The lack of running water killed more people in Nigeria last year than Boko Haram. While the terror campaign claimed more than 4,000 lives, the shortage of potable water and poor sanitation led to about 73,000 deaths, according to WaterAid, a London-based nonprofit.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure
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Safaricom Launches Ideas Portal
Safaricom has launched an interactive portal dubbed Zindua Café (www.safaricom.co.ke/zindua) through which external innovators and developers countrywide will be able to share their ideas, applications and prototypes with Safaricom.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bank of Zimbabwe Launches $50 Million Fund to Support Smallholder Farmers, Rural Development
Bank of Zambia (BoZ) Governor Michael Gondwe has launched a US$50 million Fund under the MasterCard Foundation’s Fund to support smallholder farmers in the rural areas.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Zimbabwe, All Bets Are On Mobile Money & Data As SMS Declines and Telecoms Shifts
Numbers don’t lie, especially in business, and when the right sort of numbers are going up it becomes a celebrated truth.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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For Youth, By Youth: Creating Jobs, Sustainability and A Future Vision for Kenya
Simeon Ogonda’s vision for Kenyan youth is ambitious. He wants to transform young people from job seekers into job creators who build and support sustainable and transparent enterprises. “My vision is to bring up more young people who can develop their own businesses, work hard, and trust that so long as they keep their passion alive, they will not fail in what they’re doing,” he said.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Card Payments Drop as Mobile Money Use Grows in Kenya
Payments made using plastic cards dipped by a fifth in 11 months to November last year as mobile phone-based payments ate into commercial banks’ business.
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Nigerian Smart Card Plant Supports Expansion of Financial Services to Poor
Responding to banks’ efforts to reach out to people who do not typically use financial services, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan this week inaugurated the first Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) certified smart card manufacturing plant in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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