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Economic Inclusion

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The next Mark Zuckerberg for Cameroon
topic: Innovation
by: Israel Bionyi
With limited funds but high motivation, Danielle Akini created a business. It trains children from 4 to 17 with skills to create the next big tech company.
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Kenya’s tweeting chief fights crime and improves community lives
topic: Digitalisation
by: Bob Koigi
A chief in a semi-urban area in Kenya’s Rift Valley province is using tweets to fight crime and alert locals on missing persons or livestock.
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Namibia student’s free to call phone
topic: Innovation
by: Bob Koigi
A Namibia secondary school student has invented a mobile phone with no sim card but which relies on radio frequencies to make calls anywhere at no cost.
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The Electronic Doctor
topic: Digitalisation
partner: Journafrica
Uganda has one of the biggest sectors of mobile health in Africa. Some apps have the potential to improve the child mortality rate, amongst other benefits.
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The immigrant who teaches German to refugees
topic: Refugees and Asylum
by: Maria Clara Montoya
Jaime Beck, a Colombian migrant, wanted to help in a refugee shelter and ended as a German teacher. He is now developing a teaching kit for professionals.
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Low cost soap against Malaria
topic: Health and Sanitation
by: Bob Koigi
Around half of the world’s population is at risk of Malaria, as the disease is straining the poorest countries according to the World Health Organisation.
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Occupy your street
topic: Sustainable Consumption
by: Pablo Pérez Álvarez
A citizen organization from Lima led by architects and sociologists tries to recover the street for the people, using urban micro-interventions.
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Money before country? Kenyan athletes changing nations
topic: Migration
by: Bob Koigi
When the Bahrain national anthem was played during last year’s Olympics, nothing was unusual, except that the person flying the flag wasn't born in Bahrain.
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Balkan health workers dream a German dream
topic: Migration
by: Katarina Panić
In the city library of Prijedor, Bosnia, hundred local health workers aged 18 to 50 gathered to find out how they could reach Germany, their promised land.
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All-Woman Brewery Brings Craft Beer to Kyrgyzstan
topic: Economic Opportunity
org: EurasiaNet.org
In an unlikely spot, wedged between a domino club popular with Turks and a Soviet-built apartment block, is a treat for beer-lovers in Kyrgyzstan’s capital.
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The elusive peace in Nigeria’s oil rich delta
topic: Security
by: Bob Koigi
Decades of attacks on oil installations in Nigeria have been leading to kidnappings, deaths and crippling of the economy of Africa’s most populous nation.
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The bath without water
topic: Health and Sanitation
by: Bob Koigi
Ludwick Marishane is a young South African entrepreneur, who has built a successful business based on a product he developed, DryBath.
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Refugees find their voice through theatre
topic: Refugees and Asylum
by: Judith Vonberg
Inadequate provision of English classes and a lack of routes into work or study programmes are isolating many refugees in the UK, according to new research.
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A fulfilling journey from Africa to Italy
topic: Refugees and Asylum
by: Federica Tedeschi
Africa Experience is a new restaurant run by ex-refugees, which opened last month in a famous historic street in Venice called Calle.
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Tom Tykwer: "Africa is so foreign to us because it is so rarely mentioned"
topic: Arts
by: Nicole Sagener
"Kati Kati", the debut film of Kenyan director Mbithi Masya has been released in Germany. The director Tom Tykwer spoke to FairPlanet about African myths.
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Ghana: Bamboo bicycles on the road for empowerment
topic: Innovation
by: Bob Koigi
Winifred Selby came up with the idea of making bamboo bicycles since she wanted to provide affordable and convenient transport as well as job opportunities.
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