Welcome to Africa
Kilimo Salama farmers' safety
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- 08 May 2013
Small scale farmers in east and central Africa are able to get some measure of insurance protection from bad weather through a micro-insurance project that is run entirely through mobile phone technology.
• New centre to enhance food security
Africa rising
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- 09 April 2013
Africa’s time is now. In academic studies, institutional reports, business journals and the mass media a new story about Africa is emerging: one of growth, progress, peace, potential and profitability.
• Zimbabwe ready for investors
Kenya takes banking to the poor
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- 25 March 2013
Using the penetration of mobile phones as a starting point, banking has been brought to lower-income Kenyans and the diaspora in M-Pesa, the most advanced mobile payment system in the developing world.
• Cheap, clean lighting for Kenya
Japan assistance for Southern Africa
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- 15 March 2013
The Japan International Co-operation Agency has released the preliminary findings of a study conducted to find ways of boosting economic development in Southern Africa, particularly along eight economic corridors selected for priority attention.
• Japan hails SA space tech successes
Lagos, an ideal Monopoly city
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- 13 February 2013
Nigerian entrepreneur Nimi Akinkugbe's childhood fascination with board games led her to realise a lifelong dream of creating a Lagos edition of the international property trading board game, Monopoly. This is the first time the game has been customised for a city in Africa.
• Board game makes Aids education fun
Zimbabwe ready for investors
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- 04 February 2013
Zimbabwe is undergoing a few policy changes that will make it a more welcoming place for investors, says the country’s minister of state enterprises and parastatals, Gorden Moyo.
• Team SA to call for investment
Food-for-work scheme restores hope
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- 21 January 2013
The dry, spiny forests of southern Madagascar comprise one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, and a new food-for-work scheme is helping to protect the fragile environment while ensuring food security.
• Africa can produce the food it needs
