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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 4/2/2020
South African mobile operator Vodacom and medical insurance and financial services giant Discovery are partnering to offer free online COVID-19 screening and consultations to all South Africans.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 4/1/2020
Safaricom has a new CEO, as Peter Ndegwa officially took over the top job at the Kenyan telecoms operator on Wednesday April 1, 2020.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 4/1/2020
MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter made R58.2 million ($3.3 million) in 2019 while Group CFO Ralph Mupita took home a massive R66.3 million ($3.7 million).
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 3/30/2020
Sub-Saharan Africa added 50 million new mobile money accounts in 2019 and remains at the epicenter of the mobile money global movement. This is according to the GSMA's 2019 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money published last week.
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Tom Jackson, 3/27/2020
Digital inclusion remains a novel concept in much of Africa, but a Rwandan-founded company is looking to change this by taking infrastructure to the masses.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 3/24/2020
Cell C is planning to give its customers a "lifeline package" of free data and will zero-rate educational sites, in response to the South African Competition Commission's (CompCom's) call for operators to do so.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 3/23/2020
Embattled South African telecom operator Cell C managed to reduce net losses in 2019 and is seeing some positive impact from the turnaround strategy introduced in March 2019.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 3/20/2020
MTN has promised to reduce its data prices, of 1GB and smaller prepaid bundles, by between 25% and 50% next month and is giving its users 20MB daily free "lifeline data."
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 3/19/2020
Since May last year consumers in Africa have felt unsure about whether they would be able to use Google services, or the Android operating system, on their Huawei smartphones in the long term. This was because of US trade restrictions that stopped Google from supplying software and apps to Huawei, which in turn left many consumers confused about the ...
AfricaCom Perspectives, 2/25/2020
The largest population growth globally is happening in Africa and innovation in agriculture is, without a doubt, an important tool to tackle food security for the rapidly growing population.
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The largest population growth globally is happening in Africa and innovation in agriculture is, without a doubt, an important tool to tackle food security for the rapidly growing population.
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