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Gates Foundation

Organization that signed an MoU with Equity Group and AfricaNenda to expand Digital Public Infrastructure across Africa, and committed Ksh.1.9 billion to Ebola response in Uganda and DRC.

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  1. May 2026
  2. Citizen Digital

    Target Malaria, funded by the Gates Foundation, has tested this technology in several African countries.

    What if we killed all mosquitoes?
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Equity Group partnership targets financial inclusion for unbanked Africans

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Equity Group, AfricaNenda Foundation, and the Gates Foundation have partnered through a Memorandum of Understanding to expand Digital Public Infrastructure across Africa, aiming to reach 400 million unbanked people and strengthen digital payment ecosystems. Equity Group Managing Director Dr. James Mwangi has been named the continent's first Continental Digital Public Infrastructure Champion.

6 July 2026 · Citizen Digital

Monday 6 July

  1. Equity Group partnership targets financial inclusion for unbanked Africans

    Equity Group, AfricaNenda Foundation, and the Gates Foundation have partnered through a Memorandum of Understanding to expand Digital Public Infrastructure across Africa, aiming to reach 400 million unbanked people and strengthen digital payment ecosystems. Equity Group Managing Director Dr. James Mwangi has been named the continent's first Continental Digital Public Infrastructure Champion.

    6 July 2026 · Citizen Digital

  2. Equity Group, AfricaNenda partner to reach unbanked Africans via DPI

    Equity Group Holdings, AfricaNenda Foundation, and the Gates Foundation have signed an MoU to expand Digital Public Infrastructure across Africa, targeting 400 million unbanked people. Equity Group CEO Dr. James Mwangi has been named the continent's first Continental Digital Public Infrastructure Champion.

    6 July 2026 · Citizen Digital

  3. Government plans 10-year irrigation expansion for food security

    The government has committed to expanding irrigation across the country through the National Irrigation Sector Investment Plan (NISIP) 2025–2035, which aims to expand irrigation by one million acres, optimise productivity in existing public schemes, strengthen farmer-led irrigation, and unlock greater private sector investment.

    6 July 2026 · Citizen Digital

  4. Government plans 10-year irrigation expansion to boost food security

    The government has committed to expanding irrigation across the country through a 10-year National Irrigation Sector Investment Plan (2025–2035) that aims to expand irrigation by one million acres, optimise productivity in existing public schemes, strengthen farmer-led irrigation, and unlock private sector investment as part of efforts to strengthen food security and build climate resilience.

    6 July 2026 · Citizen Digital

  5. Kenya targets one million new irrigated acres by 2035

    The government aims to expand irrigated land by one million acres over the next decade under the National Irrigation Sector Investment Plan 2025-2035, seeking to bridge the gap between Kenya's irrigation potential of more than 3.35 million acres and the current coverage of about 762,000 acres.

    6 July 2026 · The Standard

Wednesday 17 June

  1. CS Kagwe launches Ksh.1.47T agriculture modernisation initiative

    Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe launched the Kenya AgriConnect Compact (2025–2030), a Ksh.1.47 trillion partnership with the World Bank to modernise agriculture through technology, digitisation, and agritech platforms, with the government committing Ksh.492.5 billion and seeking Ksh.984.9 billion in private investment.

    17 June 2026 · Citizen Digital

  2. Equity Afya opens first standalone community pharmacy in Nairobi

    Equity Afya has launched its first standalone community pharmacy at Britam Towers in Upper Hill, Nairobi, marking an expansion beyond its existing network of 154 medical centres across all 47 counties in Kenya and DRC. The flagship outlet is the first in a planned regional network designed to expand access to quality medicines and trusted care.

    17 June 2026 · Citizen Digital

Monday 25 May

  1. Gates Foundation commits Ksh.1.9 billion to Ebola response

    The Gates Foundation has committed over Ksh.1.94 billion ($15 million) in emergency funding to support Ebola response in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with funds distributed to Africa CDC, WHO AFRO, and WHO Headquarters for coordination, operational support, and procurement of response commodities.

    25 May 2026 · Citizen Digital

Wednesday 20 May

  1. Kenya securitises smallholder farm loans for institutional investment

    Kenya is testing local-currency securitization of smallholder farm loans to attract institutional investors into agriculture. The move reflects a broader African shift to build financial infrastructure, including warehouse receipt systems and digital commodity registries, to standardize agricultural risk and make farm lending more investable at scale.

    20 May 2026 · Capital News

Tuesday 12 May

  1. Kenya uses securitization to attract institutional investment in smallholder farming

    Kenya is using local-currency securitization and data-driven risk models to transform smallholder farm lending into a capital-markets asset class, aiming to attract institutional investors to agriculture. The move reflects a broader shift across Africa to build financial infrastructure—including warehouse receipt systems and digital commodity registries—to standardize and price agricultural risk for large-scale commercial capital.

    12 May 2026 · Capital News

  2. Mosquitoes kill 760,000 annually; eradication debate examined

    Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to humans, killing around 760,000 people yearly and accounting for 17 percent of all infectious diseases including malaria, dengue, and Zika. The article explores whether eradicating mosquitoes is feasible and what environmental consequences might follow, noting that only about 100 of 3,500 mosquito species bite humans and just five account for roughly 95 percent of human infections.

    12 May 2026 · Citizen Digital

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