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PRESS RELEASE: World Bank Group’s billion dollar private sector health initiative in Africa is failing to reach the poor
A billion-dollar flagship scheme to support private sector-led health care in Africa is bypassing poor people and concentrating instead on high-end urban hospitals catering mainly for the rich.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation Commits $50 Million to Fight Ebola
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $50 million to help combat the growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Merck adds to African m-health
Merck, a German-based pharmaceutical company, has added to a growing amount of mobile-health (m-health) programmes across Africa, channelling efforts to boost SMS-based support systems to help diabetic patients manage their condition.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Nations Working to Lift Ebola Travel Bans
Some African countries have agreed to lift travel bans on people arriving from Ebola-hit nations, the African Union's top official said on Monday, in a step to ease the economic pain the virus has brought to the continent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s BRCK ships over 600 devices
Kenyan-developed modem-cum-router BRCK has shipped over 600 devices to 45 countries since it was launched with the goal of providing internet connectivity in off-grid rural areas.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Globacom’s new direction for mobile money development in Nigeria
Globacom is in a renewed push to scale up mobile money services in Nigeria, through the formation of a new partnership ecosystem, comprising of leading financial services companies, and a robust nationwide agent network.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Kenya’s telecom regulator moves to increase competition in money transfer business
Communications Authority of Kenya ( CAK) has said it will not reverse its decision to allow Equity Bank to introduce mobile money transfer services despite protests from integrated communications service provider, Safaricom.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Safaricom and Equity take Row over Thin SIM to Parliament
Kenya’s biggest mobile network operator, Safaricom, and biggest bank in terms of customer base and reach, Equity Bank, appeared before a House committee on their push and pull over Equity’s bid to offer mobile money services.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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