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Africa: Leveraging the Continent’s Resources to Finance Vital Infrastructure
The African Development Bank has a triple-A designation from international credit rating firms and has tripled its capital base since 2010.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Better funding call for vital drug approval programme
Without the prequalification programme of the World Health Organisation, Africa could have bad drugs or no drugs for HIV and TB, but this vital service for assessing medicine quality needs secure funds for the future, say experts
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Heifer International Receives $25.5m Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya plans heavy penalties for rogue mobile subscribers and operators
Kenya plans to tame rogue mobile subscribers and operators through stiffer penalties in a new set of laws to be published this week.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, mobile finance
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Ethiopia breaking new technology ground
At the beginning of 2013 when Ethiopia’s government approved mobile money in the country, allowing banks and micro-finance institutions to provide transaction-based banking online.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ghana to limit microfinance licenses
Bank of Ghana (BoG) seeks to put a ceiling on the rising number of microfinance companies in the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, microfinance
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More weather index insurance for African smallholder farmers
Weather insurance is a financial product aiming to help African farmers manage the volatility of drought and other weather crises. This week (14 Jan), IFC (www.ifc.org) signed 2 grant agreements with MicroEnsure Ltd to make more index-based weather insurance available to small-scale farmers in Rwanda and Zambia. Index-based insurance pays out on the basis of agreed weather data, such as rainfall as measured being lower than an agreed level, and is more efficient risk management tool than traditional indemnity-based agricultural insurance, which runs up high transaction costs and premiums.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Child marriage seen as a girl’s health issue
The development community is starting to pay closer attention to the problem of child marriages.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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