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UN Sustainable Development Goal
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
Inclusion, access, distributional outcomes and reduced inequality.
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Connecting African Schools: Procurement, Power and Service Accountability for Digital Education
UNICEF’s September 2026 invitation to 96 prequalified companies creates a rare chance to procure connectivity services for schools and health facilities across all 54 African countries. The scale is arresting: a potential universe of more than 860,000 schools and 260,000 health facilities. The harder question is institutional. Can a contract for internet access become a durable education service—powered, maintained, used by teachers, safe for children and accountable to the public?
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Africa's Digital Infrastructure: From Submarine Bandwidth to Local Economic Value
Submarine cables have redrawn Africa's connectivity map. The next investment test is whether bandwidth can leave the landing station, be exchanged and processed locally, reach firms at a competitive price, and support work that generates income. Djibouti's exceptional cable position shows why geography creates an option—not an outcome.
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Women's Business Finance in Africa: Identity, Data, Risk-Sharing and Market Access
Africa's women-business finance market is attracting smarter capital, from first-loss guarantees in Kenya to dedicated credit lines and guarantee platforms across the continent. But the latest institutional evidence points to a deeper constraint: capital cannot reach firms that remain difficult to identify, register, assess, collateralise, serve and connect to markets. StoneComms proposes a Financeability Stack that treats those preconditions as investable infrastructure rather than side projects.
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