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Africa: Governments Should Address Financial Inclusion Challenge to Drive Prosperity

  Africa’s financial environment is as competitive as other developing and high income regions in some countries, but access to finance remains a challenge, according to ICAEW (The Institute of.

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Kenya’s Deputy President Launches Digital Literacy Programme

      By Wanjala Danson Nairobi- William Ruto, Kenya’s Deputy President, has recently launched and inspected the progress of the Digital Literacy Programme (DLP) at Burendwa Primary School in.

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Harm Reduction Should Be Central to Effective Public Health Strategies

  By Barnabas Thondhlana DUBAI: Scientists, healthcare providers, policymakers and private sector companies met in Dubai for the first ever Middle East and Africa (MEA) Health Forum on ‘Harm Reduction.

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Chad President Says EU Needs Broader Approach to Curb Migration

The European Union must seek a deal with countries across Africa’s desert Sahel region if it wants to curb an influx of migrants, rather than focusing on bilateral deals with.

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Health Workers Race to Vaccinate 41m Children against Polio in Lake Chad – UN

Health workers have launched a drive to vaccinate more than 41 million children against polio in West Africa’s Lake Chad as they race to contain an outbreak of the disease.

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Kenya Bags Three Positions in UN Postal Body

By Wanjala Danson Kenya has been elected into three key positions in a top UN agency dealing with the postal services. Kenya’s Amb. Bishar Hussein has been re-elected as the.

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Ethiopia Launches Project for Youth, Women Entrepreneurs

A project that supports Ethiopian youth and women entrepreneurs was launched here today. The Young and Women Entrepreneurship Promotion (YoWEP) project is co-funded and implemented in partnership with the governments.

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 Uganda: Ireland Gives Shs74 Billion to Fight HIV in Karamoja

By Rachel Mabala The Irish Ambassador to Uganda has warned that the HIV/Aids prevalence in the Karamoja sub-region, north-eastern Uganda, could rise beyond the national average if efforts to fight.

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Kenya Selected to Pilot Big Data for Better ICT Capacity

  By Grace Makovu and Wanjala Danson Nairobi- Kenya has been selected by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as one of six countries to pilot the use of big data for.

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Kenya Rolls Out New Child-friendly TB Drugs

By Lenny Ruvaga This week Kenya becomes the first country in the world to roll out child-friendly tuberculosis medicines nationwide. The improved treatment was first unveiled at a conference in.

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