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    Kenya is by far the most exciting, innovative mobile money market on earth. Below is an overview of some of the major and upcoming players.

    [This is a guest post by Ben Lyon of Kopo Kopo, and recently of FrontlineSMS:Credit, who I consider to be one of the leading experts on mobile money, banking and payments in Africa. Kopo Kopo aims to make the integration of microfinance and mobile money as

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    Burkina Faso today became the first country to begin a nationwide campaign to introduce a new vaccine that promises to rid the entire region of the primary cause of epidemic meningitis, the United Nations health agency announced.

    The first vaccine designed specifically for Africa, MenAfriVac is expected to help health workers eliminate meningococcal A epidemics in the 25 countries of the menin

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    African nations can break dependence on food imports and produce enough to feed a growing population within a generation despite extra strains from climate change, a study said on Thursday.

    Research into new crops resistant to heat, droughts or floods, better support for small-scale farmers and greater involvement by national leaders in setting policies in sectors from transport to education w

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    LONDON — A generation of babies could be born free of AIDS if the international community stepped up efforts to provide universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and social protection, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

    A report by the U.N. children's fund UNICEF found that millions of women and children, particularly in poor countries, fall through the cracks of HIV services either due t

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    The price of a life-saving vaccine against five deadly diseases is expected to drop further in 2011, allowing more of the world's poorest children to be immunized, the global vaccines group GAVI said Friday.

    The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization said that thanks to increased demand for the pentavalent, or five-in-one vaccine and a reduced price offer by an un-named emerging market

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    A new UNAIDS report has shown the AIDS epidemic has been halted and the world is beginning to reverse the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. UNAIDS, the joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS reports at least 56 countries have stabilized or achieved significant declines in rates of new HIV infections.

    UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, loses no time in announcing the good news.

    "Tod

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    Africa is likely to see gross domestic product growth of 6.0 percent next year and 6.5 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka said on Thursday.

    "I think next year Africa will be growing at six percent. In sub-Saharan Africa it will be six and a half percent," he told Reuters in an interview, adding "Africa is coming out of the (global financial) crisi

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    Long awaited proof that mobile phone technology can be used by healthcare workers to save lives in Africa has finally been published.

    Findings from the first scientific trial on the link between mobile phones and HIV treatment outcomes - conducted in Kenya by scientists from Canada, Kenya and the United States - are reported in The Lancet this week (9 November).

    So far there has been limite

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    Nigeria won the African Women's Championship title after beating Equatorial Guinea 4-2 in the final in South Africa on Sunday.

    A late flurry of goals helped the Super Falcons to seal their sixth title.
    The brave Guinean ladies were undone by two own-goals that robbed them of the chance of retaining the title.

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    Kenya is ready to introduce a climate exchange platform to facilitate the trading of carbon credits and help tackle climate change.

    Being developed by the Ministry of Finance and assisted by carbon trading consulting company Bea International, the exchange will be known as Nairobi Climate Exchange. It will be the first of its kind on the continent and will facilitate trading in carbon credits