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How Mobile Phones Could Help African Farmers Sell More Products

A U.S. market research company has partnered with a Netherlands-based company that does independent agricultural certifications to engage and educate farmers via mobile phones. The result could mean smallholder farmers.

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Europe Conditionally Lifts Travel Ban on Zimbabwe’s Mugabe

Addis Ababa — PRESIDENT Mugabe’s assumption of the African Union chairmanship, which came against spirited Western opposition, apparently left the European Union between a rock and a hard place as.

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Egypt: Protesters call for a new revolution

Egyptians, marking the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, clashed with police, as they called for a new revolution on Sunday. It was a bloody weekend in.

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How Empowering Women Can Help End Poverty in Africa – World Bank

For far too long, women and girls in Africa have faced discrimination and inequalities in the workforce which have not only hurt them, but their families, communities and their countries.

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General Electric Provides $100,000 Grants to University of Ghana Students

Scholarship to cover full tuition for four-year degree Financial aid to needy students to augment the country’s human resource base One hundred students of the University of Ghana will have.

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General Electric Records Significant Progress on Energy and Healthcare Projects in Ghana

125MW expected in 2016, 750MW by 2018 1000 midwives to receive training and portable ultrasound devices General Electric (GE), Global Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt says the global infrastructure giant.

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MTN Offers AWS Direct Connect Across Africa

MTN has become the first company in Africa to offer Amazon Web Service (AWS) Direct Connect across multiple countries on the continent. The new service will leverage MTN’s multiprotocol Label.

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U.S. Working Hard to Ensure Non-Violent Elections for Nigeria – U.S. Ambassador

As Nigeria prepares for its Presidential election, come 14th February 2015, many countries across the globe continue to express their positions. The United States Ambassador to Nigeria,Ambassador James Entwistle, while.

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Nigeria’s Election Raises Complex Security Issues

  The terrible news keeps on coming from Nigeria’s embattled northeast. Two suspected child suicide bombersreportedly blew themselves up in a crowded market on Sunday – the second such attack.

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Top U.S. Figure Calls for International Action On Nigeria

President Barack Obama’s former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, spells out the dangers facing Nigeria in the coming month and calls on the U.S., Britain and.

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