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Nigeria’s Orwellian Biometric ID Is Brought to You by MasterCard

Imagine an ID card that remembers all of your personal records. This one card serves as your driver’s license and a catch-all that includes information about your health insurance, tax payments, and bank accounts. Oh, and it’s a MasterCard. Now imagine you’re required to have it to vote. By 2019, that will be the case

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UBA Launches One-Stop E-Payment Portal

E-commerce in Africa is set to receive a boost as United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced an online payments and collections platform tagged U-bills. The online payment platform has been enabled in all the 19 countries where UBA has operations.

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About the Africa Union

Introduction The advent of the    African Union (AU) can be described as an event of great magnitude in the    institutional evolution of the continent. On 9.9.1999, the Heads of State and    Government of the Organisation of African Unity issued a Declaration (the    Sirte Declaration) calling for the establishment of an African Union, with a    view,

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Kenya: Road Connecting Ethiopia, Kenya Opens for Traffic

The Yabelo-Mega road that connects Ethiopia and Kenya has been inaugurated and is open for traffic. Speaking at the inauguration, Ethiopian Minister for Transport, Workneh Gebeyhu, said the road is one of several many projects underway in the country aimed at linking Ethiopia with its neighbors through infrastructure.

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How three students created Nigeria’s online jobs giant

Three students had time on their hands in the summer of 2009 when their university lecturers in Nigeria went on strike. Instead of slacking off, Ayodeji Adewunmi, Olalekan Olude and Opeyemi Awoyemi started an online job search company.

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West Africa: AU to Deploy a Humanitarian Mission to Fight Ebola in West Africa

ANALYSIS In an unprecedented step, the first of its kind in the history of the African Union (AU), the Peace and Security Council (PSC) has decided to deploy a humanitarian mission to help end the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

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Useful Links

Below are some links that you may find useful AllAfrica.com African Business Central The Africa Report Africa Review  BBC Africa Caribbean Journal  CNET.com The Economist  Foreign Policy Healthcare Informatics Info Afrique.com InformationWeek The International Monetary Fund IT News Africa Mail & Guardian Africa  MIT Technology Review  New Technologies in Africa  PC World Radio Africa Online Techradar

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