29 African startups in healthcare supply chain selected to receive funding and impact support from Gates Foundation, MSD, and others – MyJoyOnline.com

[ad_1] Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative for start-ups building the future of healthcare supply chains has announced its second cohort of 29 companies. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and sponsored by Cencora (formerly AmerisourceBergen), Merck Sharpe & Dohme (MSD), Microsoft, and Chemonics, i3 is dedicated to facilitating the commercialization…

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The unintended consequences of severing electricity supply to Niger amidst recent coup [Article]

[ad_1] “Niger’s economy is based largely on subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world’s largest uranium deposits. Drought cycles, desertification, a 3.4% population growth rate and the drop in world demand for uranium have undercut an already marginal economy. Traditional subsistence farming, herding, small trading, and informal markets dominate an economy that generates few…

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