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Mobile money agents fortify shops to stem rising crime
An upsurge of crime targeting mobile money shops in Kenya has prompted operators to come up with new ways to ward off criminals.
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Bringing financial inclusion to the Horn of Africa
At present some 281,000 active subscribers use their mobile phones every day to transfer money, make purchases, pay bills, and buy airtime in Somaliland. That number is expected to increase to 400,000 by the end of 2014, says Adan Shire.
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Eight years after the last outbreak in 2005, polio is once again ravaging the Horn of Africa
Since May health authorities have reported 191 cases: 174 in Somalia, 14 in north-eastern Kenya and three in Ethiopia.
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Blue chip companies join forces with UN to provide better healthcare
The campaign aims to train, equip and deploy one million community health workers by the end of 2015.
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How a restaurant chain pioneered a social impact bond to fight malaria
Nando’s, the restaurant chain popular for its peri-peri chicken, recently announced a partnership creating the Mozambique Malaria Performance Bond, a development impact bond to fund malaria reduction efforts in Mozambique.
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Mobile Money Comes To Ethiopia
Ethiopia lags far behind its East African neighbours in the development of its telecommunications sector and the services that the system now routinely provides elsewhere. This is about to change with the rollout of the country’s first mobile money transfer system this January
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New Study Finds Cash Alone Effective Way to Fight Poverty
The study found that poor recipients spent the money on a broad variety of items, including food, shelter, and productive assets, leading to significant improvements in income, food security, and psychological well-being.
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Samsung Electronics push medical equipment for remote areas
With the shortage of skilled medical personnel and resources in outlying rural areas of Africa, Samsung Electronics says its diagnostic medical technology solutions could be the ideal healthcare for impoverished rural areas.
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