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25-Jul-19 Technology company Vivo is expanding and launching its smartphones into the Middle East and Africa. Vivo products are already available in the UAE and Morocco, with Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to follow suit in the coming months. [image: IOL]
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25-Jul-19 Mobile network operators in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa plan to invest USD12 bn in their networks between 2018 and 2025 with 20% of the USD12 bn to be invested in 5G network deployment. [image: Najja 247 News]
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13-May-19 US private equity group TPG will take over and manage Abraaj’s USD1 bn healthcare fund, offering relief for Kenyan medical outlets into which the fund had pumped billions of shillings. Abraaj’s Kenyan portfolio includes 18 clinics and 10 hospitals. [image: NMG]
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12-Mar-19 Kenya’s Safaricom has secured a deal to use its M-Pesa mobile payment service for online shopping on Aliexpress, run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The agreement will allow Kenyan shoppers to buy goods on the site using M-Pesa. [image: Reuters / Noor Khamis]
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13-Jun-18 Kenya-based regional financial institution Equity Bank and Singapore-based online payment company Red Dot Payment have signed an MOU to introduce Alipay and WeChat Pay to the East African market. [image: China Daily]
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