{One area where progress has been faster is credit. Some leading microlenders, such as Grameen Bank and Opportunity International, have been around since the 1970s. These days the best-run bits of the industry are admirably professional. Boosters point to examples such as Ghana, where women are able to borrow small amounts of money to stock vegetable stalls in markets.
Mainstream banks have found it hard to serve clients at the low end of the income scale. The costs of their branch networks make it hard for them to make small loans or take tiny deposits profitably. And low interest rates have made it difficult for banks to make money on deposits because of a narrowing in the spread between the rates paid on deposits (usually nothing, or close to it) and the rates they charge borrowers. Oliver Wyman, a consultancy, reckons American banks lose money on 37% of customer accounts — meaning that even those of many middle-income Americans are unprofitable.
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, children walk on the grass during break at the Side-By-Side Boetheo School, which assists mostly orphans who were previously out of school but now receive scholarship aid from a donor if they satisfy criteria such as having a birth certificate, in Rakai, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, Abdu Kabanda, 6, center, who is HIV-positive and is able to receive treatment from a support group because he is able to show a birth certificate to prove his age, sits directly in front of the teacher, background center, in his class at the Jovia nursery and primary school in Kyanangazi village, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In India only a rich minority of citizens have bank accounts, and two-thirds of adults — many of them rural and poor — have no access to financial services at all. Why should they have to spend time, effort and money to travel to a bank branch?
Such transactions may involve only small sums, but in recent years nimble startups have noticed that serving millions of people with little money can be profitable. Globally, 2.5 billion adults — more than half the world's adult population — lack bank accounts. The widespread adoption of mobile phones, as well as advances in cloud-computing and data-crunching technology, have allowed firms to come up with ways of lowering the cost of lending money to, and moving and storing it for, these billions. These innovations are spawning an array of other financial services, ranging from mobile wallets to crop insurance and new types of microloans.
An added motivation is India's effort to stem its skewed gender ratio, due largely to families' preference for sons. By requiring health workers and village officials to register all births, authorities hope fewer newborn girls will be killed by their families.
Chhitaranjan Khaitan, an official with the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, said 15 of the country's 29 states had reported a 100 percent birth registration rate, and seven more states surpassed 90 percent. Many states have successfully linked registration to a nationwide effort to provide every Indian citizen with an identification number.
More broadly, there's the massive problem of children without birth certificates or other identification who make up a significant portion of the millions of displaced people around the world, fleeing war, famine, persecution and poverty.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, school children play for the camera during a class at the Mpugwe Parents Junior School in Masaka, Uganda. The birth registration campaign in Uganda dates back only about five years and there's still uncertainty as to whether the government will invest sufficient funds to expand and sustain it. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, Abdu Kabanda, 6, center, who is HIV-positive and is able to receive treatment from a support group because he is able to show a birth certificate to prove his age, sits in his class at the Jovia nursery and primary school in Kyanangazi village, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, Asimart Nakabanda, 15, whose child marriage was foiled at the planned wedding ceremony in a surprise raid by police, discusses the events in the village of Lwamaggwa, near Masaka, in Uganda. She now wants to go back to school to study. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Verma's state of Chhattisgarh was recording just 55 percent of births in 2011. Amitabha Panda, the state's top statistician, said reasons included lack of registration centers, outdated data collection methods and wariness of extending outreach to areas where Maoist rebels held sway.
In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, Abdu Kabanda, 6, center, who is HIV-positive and able to receive treatment from a support group because he is able to show a birth certificate to prove his age, plays on a swing during break at the Jovia nursery and primary school in Kyanangazi village, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Yet there is still space for inventiveness in rich countries where the financial architecture tends to be built around banks. Progreso Financiero (PF), a storefront lender operating in Texas, California and Illinois, offers loans of between $250 and $3,500, mainly to Latino immigrants with no credit histories or bank accounts. To determine a potential borrower's creditworthiness, it uses a proprietary algorithm with more data points than those of traditional credit bureaus. PF charges higher interest than mainstream banks but far less than the payday or auto-title lenders to which its clients would otherwise turn. In seven years of operation PF has made more than 500,000 loans. Its boss, Raul Vazquez, says default rates are "in the single digits".
In 2013, with help from UNICEF, the state government launched a campaign using street theater, graffiti and notices distributed at markets to get the word out. Today, the state says it registers virtually every birth.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, a pregnant 15-year-old girl who was the victim of statutory rape, stands in a doorway of the house where she stays in Masaka, Uganda. She is having difficulty pressing charges against the perpetrator because she cannot prove that she is under 18. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Michelle Trombley, a UNICEF child protection officer in Mali, admires the parents and local officials who persisted with registration efforts even when their communities in the north were occupied by rebels.
While obtaining a birth certificate is routine for most parents in the West, it may not be a priority for African parents who worry about keeping a newborn alive and fed. Many parents wait several years, often until their children are ready for school exams, to tackle the paperwork.
Gold-buyers go to the left where they are offered certified coins or ingots that come in sealed plastic cases.
A dozen naval officers wait patiently: their salaries, like those of many state employees, are paid through the bank. At a counter upstairs, tellers help illiterate Nepalese migrant workers to send money home.
Uganda is a potential success story as well, though very much a work in progress. UNICEF child protection officer Augustine Wassago estimates that the country's registration rate for children under 5 is now about 60 percent, up from 30 percent in 2011.
In Myanmar, the overall registration rate has surpassed 70 percent, but is much lower in the western state of Rakhine, base of the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority. Human rights agencies say many thousands of Rohingya children there have no birth certificates because of discriminatory policies.
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, Madina Nansubuga, the mother of Asimart Nakabanda, 15, whose child marriage was foiled at the planned wedding ceremony in a surprise raid by police, discusses the events at her home on a rural dirt road leading to the village of Lwamaggwa, near Masaka, in Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
There are alternatives. In the lush hills of South Africa's Eastern Cape, elderly men and women queue up in the hot sun to press their fingers against fingerprint scanners in the backs of vans. After this they are given government-issued smart cards linked to accounts into which the government can electronically pay their monthly pensions, which previously were handed to them in cash. Take-up has been rapid. With electronic payment the elderly no longer have to queue for hours to get their monthly money. Nor do they risk having it stolen on the long walk home.
Even where regulation does not directly hamper financial inclusion, it often discourages it. In many countries where governments have sought to expand access to banking by fiat, India and Brazil among them, state-owned banks misallocate and misprice credit, freezing out private innovation and forcing private banks to misprice loans themselves to remain competitive. Quotas on branches and restrictions on new entrants (including foreign banks) exacerbate these problems.
With the encouragement of UNICEF and various non-governmental organizations, many of the worst-affected countries have been striving to improve their birth registration rates. In Uganda, volunteers go house to house in targeted villages, looking for unregistered children. Many babies are born at home, with grandmothers acting as midwives, so they miss out on the registration procedures that are being modernized at hospitals and health centers.
The unbanked include the majority of people in Latin America, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and large parts of Asia, as well as nearly half in Eastern Europe. In some African countries banking rates are so low as to be negligible: in Sudan, for instance, less than 7% of adults have an account. Within OECD countries the rate is 92%, though with tremendous variation: over 90% in the Nordic countries, but little more than 70% in Italy — which has a sizeable underground cash-based economy — and under 50% in Mexico.A legal opinion drafted for the project for Mercury in May 2012, and obtained by AP, concluded that the European Centre qualified as a "foreign principal" under the Foreign Agents Registration Act but said disclosure to the Justice Department was not required. That determination was based on the nonprofit's assurances that none of its activities was directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized by Ukraine's government or any of the country's political parties.
Those demographics are set to drive growth. With more than half its population now under 25, the highest percentage in the world, the continent will have a larger workforce than China or India by 2040, according to BCG.
Political consultants are generally leery of registering under the foreign agents law, because their reputations can suffer once they are on record as accepting money to advocate the interests of foreign governments — especially if those interests conflict with America's.
In the developed world, birth certificates are often a bureaucratic certainty. However, across vast swaths of Africa and South Asia, tens of millions of children never get them, with potentially dire consequences in regard to education, health care, job prospects and legal rights. Young people without IDs are vulnerable to being coerced into early marriage, military service or the labor market before the legal age. In adulthood, they may struggle to assert their right to vote, inherit property or obtain a passport.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Keron Sembuya, who teachers believe to be around 4 or 5 years old, stands for a photograph at the Mpugwe Parents Junior School which he attends in Masaka, Uganda. He is missing out on potential financial support for his schooling because he does not have a birth certificate. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In contrast, countries that encourage innovation and help banks and companies to deal with regulatory obstacles — for example, by providing official identification cards that make it easier for banks to meet rules requiring them to know their customers — have proved more successful at bringing the poor into their financial systems.
In some cases, though, microlenders have overstretched, leading to credit bubbles and bankruptcies. Furthermore, economists continue to debate whether loans benefit the poor. Much of the new evidence emerging from countries such as Malawi suggests that it is more beneficial to help a farmer save the money needed to plant next year's crop than to have him borrow it at annual interest rates of 30% or higher.
These services do not bring the unbanked into the financial mainstream so much as they extend the financial mainstream to the unbanked. Arjan Schutte of Core, a venture-capital firm that invests in financial-technology companies
, says "the term 'unbanked' suggests a role for banks that's largely assumed ... But one big trend is the erosion of banks' significance."
Poor people aren't just forced to pay a premium for credit or savings; they are often deprived almost entirely of other financial products, such as insurance, whether for their crops, livestock or lives. Their inability to hedge risks has a variety of consequences. In Tanzania, uninsured small-scale farmers tend to plant crops they can eat, even though these may offer smaller returns than cash crops. In Uganda, poor farmers who are unable to lock in future prices for their crops are less likely to invest in high-return coffee production because of uncertainties over how much they will get paid.
The West African nation of Mali is another success story. It's now reporting a birth registration rate of 87 percent - one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa - despite a long-running conflict involving Islamic extremists.
Perhaps belatedly, banks are beginning to adapt to serve low-income customers — generally with prepaid cards rather than with full-service accounts. For many years, the prepaid market was the wild west: virtually unregulated, with numerous steep and hidden fees and no deposit insurance offered to customers. That is starting to change, less because of government intervention — though America's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has started looking hard at prepaid — than because of competition.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, crucifixes for sale to patients and visitors hang in front of shelves of paper hospital records, including birth records, stored in cloth sacks, at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Kitovu, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Take-up of M-PESA and its like has been swifter in poor countries than rich ones because such services do not have to compete with an extant banking model: customers choose not between traditional banks and mobile money, but between mobile money and cash under the bed.
The poor, of course, are less likely to have bank accounts at all. In developing countries the richest 20% is more than twice as likely as the poorest 20% to have a bank account. Globally, less than 25% of people making $2 per day or less have accounts; when average daily income rises above $10, the banking rate rises to around 60%.Podesta's firm has previously registered its activities with the Justice Department over its work for Albania, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Japan, Kenya, Kosovo, the Maldives, Moldova, Morocco, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Vietnam, and others. Mercury has disclosed to the Justice Department its work on behalf of government interests in the Cayman Islands, Nigeria, Qatar, Somalia, Turkey, one of the United Arab Emirates, Uganda, and others.
Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co. sought to tap into this growth in 2005, when it paid $3.4 billion for Celtel International, gaining mobile telephone customers in countries including Kenya, Chad and Uganda.
AB InBev's fastest growing region in the year to Dec. 31 was what it described as northern Latin America, primarily Brazil, where sales volume increased 4.1 percent. Volume fell by 6 percent in Europe and 1.3 percent in North America.
The same year, London-based Barclays bank paid 2.9 million pounds ($4.5 billion) for a controlling stake in South Africa's Absa Group. Barclays' African unit now has more than 12 million customers in 12 countries.
The girls' parents claimed she was born in March 1999, which would have made her old enough to consent. Yet only months before, the girl's parents had told birth registration officials she was born in October 2001.
There are other ways in which governments can help the process along. One is to make more benefits payments electronic. Another is to bring more clarity to rules on mobile money in order to encourage more banks to enter the business, and to assuage telecoms companies' fears about regulatory risk in financial services. The benefits of bringing more of the world's 2.5 billion unbanked into the formal financial system would be enormous.
LONDON (AP) — Charles Kwara and his friends sit around an earthenware pot, sipping a frothy gray drink through long straws as laughter fills the Charismatic Club in the slums of Kampala, Uganda's capital.
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, expectant mothers lie on beds in the maternity ward of the Kalisizo General Hospital in Kalisizo, Uganda. The birth registration campaign in Uganda dates back only about five years and there's still uncertainty as to whether the government will invest sufficient funds to expand and sustain it. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Monika Sandvik-Nylund, a senior child protection adviser with UNHCR, said birth registration can be crucial to enabling refugee children to return to their home countries or to reunite after being separated from their parents.
Trump shook up his campaign organization Wednesday, putting two new longtime Republican conservative strategists as chief executive officer and campaign manager. It was unclear what impact the shake-up would have on Manafort, but he retains his title as campaign chairman.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, administrator Kiyingi Specioza shows how births were formerly recorded only by hand in a book, prior to the introduction of a national computerized register where administrators can enter births over the internet, at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Kitovu, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The Justice Department, for example, requires those who register as lobbyists on behalf of foreign governments or parties to detail the home addresses of lobbyists and descriptions [1] of all receipts, payments, political contributions, and details about any lectures, emails, pamphlets, or press releases they create.
Basic banking
Worries about uneven access to financial services are not new. For much of the past century governments have tackled the problem in one of two ways. The first, less successful approach has been to nationalise banks or otherwise coerce them into serving the poor. India, which nationalised its 14 biggest banks in 1969 (and a few more in 1980), was a leading proponent of this approach. Though it has since liberalised its banking system, it still forces banks to provide services in remote villages. Even so, by 2011 only 35% of Indian adults had formal bank accounts. Most European governments have either forced banks to offer free "basic" accounts to the poor or have done so themselves through state-owned institutions, such as post offices.
"The African customer is rising," The Boston Consulting Group, or BCG, said in a report last year. "An African consumer class — and a set of thriving African companies — is emerging and starting to reach critical mass."
Kenya has gone a step further with M-PESA. This is a form of mobile money, used by 75% of Kenyan adults, that is sent from phone to phone using a simple text-messaging system. It has become so ubiquitous that some reckon almost half of the country's GDP flows through it. It can be used to pay for energy bills, taxi rides and even vegetables in the market.
In Lebanon, tens of thousands of Syrian children have been born to refugee parents in recent years without being registered by any government. The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, has pushed Lebanese authorities to ease barriers to registration, such as requirements to present certain identity documents.That makes Museveni, 73, in power since 1986 and increasingly accused of authoritarianism and a failure to curb corruption, unqualified to seek re-election at the next polls in 2021. Removing the age cap would erase that barrier.
The upcoming election doesn't look promising for Saujani. A June Wall Street Journal poll
showed Saujani with just 4% of the democratic vote, behind current City Council rep Letitia James (17%), university professor Catherine Guerriero
"I was never given any reason to believe Rick was a Party of Regions consultant," said John Ward Anderson, a current Podesta employee who attended the meeting, in a statement provided by his firm. "My assumption was that he was working for the Centre, as we were."
MPs exchanged blows and kicks, with some using microphone stands as crude weapons in the melee, and at least two female lawmakers were carried out of the chamber after collapsing, a Reuters journalist on the scene said.
The founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, Tony Podesta, is the brother of longtime Democratic strategist John Podesta, who now is campaign chairman for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The head of Mercury, Vin Weber, is an influential Republican, former congressman, and former special policy adviser to Mitt Romney. Weber announced earlier this month that he would not support Trump.
At least 25 MPs opposed to the proposed constitutional amendment to prolong Museveni's tenure were forcibly ejected on orders of the speaker for involvement in fighting on Tuesday. All other like-minded MPs then walked out.
"That race showed me this huge technology divide we have in our city," she says. "My district had some of the wealthiest high schools in America and some of the poorest. So I'd see some that would have a robotics lab and others with one computer in the basement or in a church." She says she's had to teach some impoverished teens how to use a computer mouse.
The proposal, echoing steps by other veteran African leaders to void legal limits on their rule, has stirred widespread resistance from rights activists, opposition parties, religious leaders and even some members of Museveni's party.
Saujani attended University of Illinois, Urbana. She interned for Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign, where her love affair with politics really began. "You really had a sense that people were participating in a conversation about our country for the very first time [during the Clinton-Gore election," she says.
North Korea has registered an unusually large number of ships, including many foreign-owned vessels, as part of its domestic fleet. It also listed 18 of the 21 vessels in its Ocean Maritime Management Company as domestic ships, even though some enter international waters.
"When I first decided to run for Congress people said, 'You shouldn't run for Congress, you should run for City Council or for a smaller office,'" Saujani says. "I just don't think that we tell men that. I think that if we're really trying to crash through the glass ceiling, we're really trying to change these abysmal numbers we have for [women in] leadership, we actually have to tell women to take more risks, not less, and to really have them embrace failure."
The lobbying firms continued the work until shortly after Yanukovych fled the country in February 2014, during a popular revolt prompted in part by his government's crackdown on protesters and close ties to Russia.
Henry Segawa, a census worker in the Rakai administrative district, is among those who've been trained to do the registration outreach. Their efforts have been buttressed by public awareness campaigns; radio talk show hosts and priests have been encouraged to spread the word.
With beer sales slowing in North America and Europe, Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to pay more than $100 billion for rival SABMiller, in large part to tap burgeoning growth in Africa, where many people still buy their beer from small neighborhood brewers.
Saujani launched Girls Who Code last summer as an eight-week intensive program where high school women learn the basics of Ruby, HTML, Java, and more. They meet technology leaders like Facebook's Sherly Sandberg and Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo (Saujani says when the girls met Sandberg, they started screaming like she was Beyoncé). The women in the program then help launch clubs at their schools so they can teach others what they've learned.
The bundles of services that banks have traditionally provided — credit, money storage, payments and so on — are being picked apart and sold individually. Savers in the rich world are lending directly to borrowers through peer-to-peer websites. New sorts of remittance firms are allowing people to send money to relatives back home using pipelines that bypass banks and other traditional intermediaries, helping to bring down the hefty fees charged on such transfers. This disruption should improve the lives of the world's poor, even as it challenges and alters the business models of mainstream lenders.Local television showed government and opposition lawmakers coming to blows after the House speaker allowed a ruling party legislator to introduce a motion to kick-start the process to remove an age cap from Uganda's constitution to allow Museveni to run for re-election.
In large parts of the developing world, a long walk to a cash machine is the least of savers' problems. Some are quite prepared to earn what is in effect a negative interest rate to save cash, because keeping money at home leaves them vulnerable to thieves or pleading relatives. In Ghana and other West African countries people deposit savings with Susu collectors, who take small deposits each day and hold on to the cash for their clients for a fee. Similar informal savings accounts exist in India and the Philippines.
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, children lie on the grass during break at the Side-By-Side Boetheo School, which assists mostly orphans who were previously out of school but now receive scholarship aid from a donor if they satisfy criteria such as having a birth certificate, in Rakai, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The nonprofit also paid $1.07 million over roughly the same period to Mercury to lobby Congress. Among other issues, Mercury opposed congressional efforts to pressure Ukraine to release one of Yanukovych's political rivals from prison.
Prosecutions under the Foreign Agents Registration Act are generally rare, though a former US congressman, Michigan Republican Mark Siljander, pleaded guilty in July 2010 to illegal lobbying under the law and obstruction of justice for his work with a charity in Khartoum, Sudan, that prosecutors said was suspected of funding international terrorism. Siljander served one year in prison.
Instead, Saujani's face has been popping up on television sets
around New York. Her fundraisers have attracted powerful tech supporters like Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and Square founder Jack Dorsey.
Bluebird, for instance, a prepaid card issued by American Express and Walmart, places depositor funds into custodial accounts at a bank with deposit insurance. Chase offers a low-cost prepaid card called Liquid, which gives users fee-free access to the bank's huge ATM network for deposits and withdrawals but does not require an account at the bank. Regions Bank, based in the American Southeast, goes even further, offering not just prepaid cards but also money transfers, remittances and low-fee cheque cashing for non-account-holders — essentially, everything a neighbourhood cheque-cashing joint does, but at markedly lower cost. Regions also offers no-fee savings accounts to its prepaid card holders. Such bank-accounts-on-cards are also on the rise in Europe and poor countries.
In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, a 15-year-old who was raped when she was 14 talks to a member of UNICEF staff, left, at her home in a village near Masaka, Uganda. The man who raped her was remanded to jail pending trial after an aid worker assisted her father in obtaining a birth certificate to prove she was under 18, a document she did not previously have. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
One former Podesta employee, speaking on condition of anonymity because of a nondisclosure agreement, said Gates described the nonprofit's role in an April 2012 meeting as supplying a source of money that could not be traced to the Ukrainian politicians who were paying him and Manafort.
"If that's the only thing I do as Public Advocate, I will have been successful. Because I believe that every day that goes by as a country, we're in trouble because our kids are so far behind other nations."
At least one in every 13 American households had no bank account in 2013; in households making less than $15,000 a year it was one in four. One-third of America's unbanked were either black or Hispanic. The most frequent reason given for not having an account was that they did not feel they had enough money. (Other reasons were that they didn't like dealing with banks and thought they were in inconvenient locations, which can be solved: Self-Help Credit Union found that more people used its services when it opened a branch in a strip mall and designed it to look like a check-casher, with fluorescent lighting and linoleum floors, than when it had a traditional bank-branch design, with plush carpets and leather chairs.)
Among those who described Manafort's and Gates's relationship with the nonprofit are current and former employees of the Podesta Group. Some of them spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal details about the work and because they remain subject to nondisclosure agreements.
Paul Manafort, senior aide to Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, takes the stage to check the podium just before Trump delivered a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, United States, April 27, 2016.
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"This is cheap," says Kwara, a 47-year-old marketing manager who heads a drinking club. While they'd like bottled beer, home brew is the only option if they want a full night out. "Drinking is also a way of socializing for us," Kwara says."Everyone is looking for the next big golden egg: It comes down to Africa," said Robert Besseling, a principal analyst on Africa at IHS, a global research firm. "Everyone is anticipating a boom — even though it hasn't happened yet."
On Tuesday, anti-government protests also occurred in other parts of the country, including in the northern town of Lira. Three local journalists there were arrested as they covered the protests, according to Hudson Apunyo, an official in a journalists' association in the area.
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, grandmother Mauda Byarugaba, right, holds her grandson Ben Ssekalunga, who was passed to her by a midwife moments after his birth, as she sits next to an unidentified friend in the maternity room of a health clinic with no running water in Lwamaggwa, near Masaka, in Uganda. A census worker recorded Ben's details in a birth register shortly after delivery. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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In another case, Chinese businesswoman Ma Xiaohong was accused of using her company Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development to help Korea Kwangson Banking Corporation settle its overseas customer accounts, according to the US Justice Department.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, old archives of birth registrations recorded only by hand in books, prior to the introduction of a national computerized register where administrators can enter births over the internet, are stored on shelves at the St. Joseph's Hospital in Kitovu, Uganda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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"I started writing 'Women Who Don't Wait In Line
' as therapy," she says. "After I lost my congressional campaign, I was confused about what I could do next. I felt like, 'Wow, I really lost. We ran a really great campaign, we talked about the ideas, we raised resources.' But after I lost, my phone wasn't ringing. Nobody was calling me to say, 'Okay, what do you want to do next?' I often think with men, when they face the same circumstance, there's people there to pick them up."
SABMiller, the descendant of South African Breweries, has stretched its tentacles across the continent, betting that Africans will shift to higher quality beers as economic development increases disposable income. It now has operations in 17 countries on the continent, with another 21 covered by Castel Group, in which it has a stake.
"The police were asking me many questions about proof of the girl's birth date. How old she is? Where she goes to school," said the aunt, Percy Namirembe, sitting in her tin-roofed shantytown home in Masaka near the shores of Lake Victoria in south-central Uganda. "I don't have evidence showing the victim is not yet 18."
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North Koreans sign up to join the army in the midst of political tension with South Korea, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang.
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, doing so in a way that effectively obscured the foreign political party's efforts to influence US policy.
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The revelation, provided to The Associated Press by people directly knowledgeable about the effort, comes at a time when Trump has faced criticism for his friendly overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin. It also casts new light on the business practices of campaign chairman Paul Manafort.An activist opposed to the extension of presidential age limits is arrested and carried off by uniformed and plain-clothes police, while shouting for America and Israel to come to the rescue of Ugandans, near the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Ugandan police on Thursday fired tear gas to disperse protesters and arrested dozens of people opposed to plans to introduce legislation that could allow the longtime president Yoweri Museveni to extend his rule. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
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In their impoverished communities in Uganda, the answers hinged on the fact that one girl had a birth certificate and the other didn't. Police foiled the planned marriage after locating paperwork that proved the first girl was not 18 as her parents claimed. The other girl could not prove she was under the age of consent; her aunt, who's also her guardian, has struggled to press charges against the builder who seduced and impregnated her.
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An employee walks between front-end loaders, which are used to move coal imported from North Korea at Dandong port in the Chinese border city of Dandong, Liaoning province, December 7, 2010. Once a main export center for agricultural goods, Dandong port, near the China-North Korea border, now serves as an import center for coal and iron ore from North Korea, local media reported.
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Gates told the AP that he and Manafort introduced the lobbying firms to the European Centre nonprofit and occasionally consulted with the firms on Ukrainian politics. He called the actions lawful and said there was no attempt to circumvent the reporting requirements of the US Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Yet the recent combination of mobile telephony, cloud computing wills and estate planning attorney [2] new business models is likely to have a greater impact than previous decades of either top-down planning or the trickle-down of economic growth. By the end of 2013, there were 219 mobile-money services in 84 countries, with more than 60m account-holders. More than half of the services were in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these are gaining a foothold elsewhere: in Afghanistan, for instance, M-PESA is used to pay the salaries of policemen who were previously paid in cash. Many reportedly thought they had received large pay increases because the officers handing out their pay were no longer able to take a cut.
The government has defended the police, and police say they have arrested 30 suspects and charged 13 of them, listing possible motives ranging from domestic rows through sexual abuse to ritual murder linked to human sacrifice.
All the hard work is leading up to one monumental day for Saujani, who is running for New York City Public Advocate on September 10. Winning could catapult the career in politics she's always dreamed of. Losing (again) would be a devastating set back.
Coca-Cola Co. last year said Africa was a "vital part" of its business as the company and its local bottlers added $5 billion to their planned investment in the continent this decade, pushing the total to $17 billion.
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, expectant mothers lie on beds in the maternity ward of the Kalisizo General Hospital in Kalisizo, Uganda. UNICEF child protection officer Augustine Wassago estimates that the country's birth registration rate for children under 5 is now about 60 percent, up from 30 percent in 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Widespread media coverage of the appearance of 20 corpses beside roadsides south of the capital since May reflects public anger with police for repeatedly saying they have arrested the perpetrators, only for another body to be discovered.
There have been occasional individual cases of alleged ritual murder in the east African nation, but this is the first time there has been such a large number of people killed in similar circumstances in the same area.
"They tortured us to make us confess that we worked with the rebels. One day they tortured us in an atrocious way. They took a bottle filled with sand and hung it from our testicles," he told Amnesty International.
The nonprofit, the newly created European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, was governed by a board that initially included parliament members from Yanukovych's party. The nonprofit subsequently paid at least $2.2 million to the lobbying firms to advocate positions generally in line with those of Yanukovych's government.
FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 file photo, Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza is sworn in for a third term at a ceremony in the parliament in Bujumbura, Burundi. The international human rights organization Amnesty International said Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 that thousands of Burundi refugees are being pressured to go home where they risk being killed, tortured or raped. (AP Photo/Gildas Ngingo, File)
That claim was backed up by footage aired on Thursday by the private NTV Uganda channel of Special Forces Command (SFC) Colonel Don Nabasa pacing the corridors of parliament moments before the security guards burst into the chamber.
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The United States urged Uganda's government to protect basic freedoms "without fear of intimidation," and Amnesty International said authorities "must end their absurd attempts to silence people opposed to scrapping the presidential age limit."
In addition to these devices, the Amnesty report also examines several types of "legitimate" law enforcement tools such as tear gas and anti-riot equipment that have nonetheless been exported from China to countries "where there was a foreseeable risk of serious human rights violations", including Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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FILE - In this Saturday, May 23, 2015 file photo, refugees who fled Burundi's violence and political tension wait to board a UN ship, at Kagunga on Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, to be taken to the port city of Kigoma. The international human rights organization Amnesty International said Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 that thousands of Burundi refugees are being pressured to go home where they risk being killed, tortured or raped. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
Four of the five fastest-growing economies last year were in sub-Saharan Africa, and the region as a whole grew 4.6 percent, compared with 2.4 percent in the United States and 1.3 percent in the European Union, the World Bank reported.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, gross national income per capita has more than tripled since 2000, reaching $1,699 last year, according to the World Bank. Life expectancy rose to 57 years from 50 in the same period, and the portion of those completing primary education increased to 69 percent from 55 percent.
Ugandan police had warned on Wednesday that no protests - in support of or against the president - would be allowed after it appeared that the bill would be introduced Thursday. Some opposition figures have vowed to mobilize mass support against the bill they believe is intended to enable Museveni, who has been in power for more than 30 years, to remain in office for the rest of his life.
"Some of them think they may want to run for office someday," Saujani says. "I have an amazing team, both in Girls Who Code and my campaign, and I think I'm as effective as I am because of the people who surround me."
Museveni, a U.S. ally on regional security over the years, took power by force 1986 following a bush war. He won re-election last year in a poll marred by allegations of vote fraud and intimidation by the security forces.
Copycats have sprouted across Africa, particularly in places such as Zimbabwe or Somalia that have more or less ditched their own currencies and switched to using dollars. In such countries, where poor people may earn only a dollar or two a day, a dollar note is inconveniently high-denomination for the smallest transactions (coins are not widely used). But notes that are deposited with agents working for mobile-phone companies and turned into mobile money in a digital wallet can easily be split to pay for, say, a handful of tomatoes, says Ismail Ahmed, of WorldRemit, a remittance firm.Moreover, microlenders' coverage is patchy. Most of the world's poor still turn to payday or informal lenders that charge exorbitant rates. These stir up controversy in the rich world, too. In Britain a new firm, Wonga, has been criticised for charging rates on short-term loans that, if annualised, would amount to more than 4,000% a year. (The firm says such figures are meaningless because its loans are usually repaid within a month and interest stops being added once a loan is overdue by 60 days or more.)
There is pervasive climate of fear in Burundi two years after Nkurunziza changed Burundi's constitution and won a third term in office, which many opposed, said the rights group. More than 400,000 Burundians have fled the country fearing violence since April 2015 when Nkururunziza's candidacy sparked weeks of protests and a failed coup.
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India is the biggest success story. It accounted for 71 million of the unregistered children in UNICEF's 2013 report - more than half of all the Indian children in that age range. Thanks to concerted nationwide efforts, UNICEF says the number of unregistered children has dropped to 23 million - about 20 percent of all children under age 5.
In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, the previous year's crime chart showing the monthly figures of different types of crime affecting women and children in the area hangs on the wall in the office of police child protection officer Natuhwera Donum in Masaka, Uganda. In the developed world, birth certificates are often a bureaucratic certainty. However, across vast swaths of Africa and South Asia, tens of millions of children never get them, with potentially dire consequences in regard to education, health care, job prospects and legal rights. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan police on Thursday fired tear gas to disperse protesters and arrested dozens of people opposed to plans to introduce legislation that could allow the longtime president to extend his rule.
The constitution was changed in 2005 to remove a two-term limit, allowing him to extend his rule, and parliament is discussing removing an age cap. His son is a major general and powerful presidential adviser.
People with direct knowledge of Gates' work said that, during the period when Gates and Manafort were consultants to the Ukraine president's political party, Gates was also helping steer the advocacy work done by a pro-Yanukovych nonprofit that hired two Washington lobbying firms, Podesta Group Inc. and Mercury LLC.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Attackers lobbed explosive devices at the residences of two opposition lawmakers in assaults that the legislators said are related to their resistance to attempts to extend the long-time president's time in office.
Saheliyon ki badi is also known as maids of honour was designed as a peaceful place outside the old city of Udaipur. It is one of the most beautiful place in Udaipur located at the banks of lake Fateh Sagar.This garden is well known for its lush green lawns, fountains and marble art. Many of the fountains present there were made in England.
LONDON, Sept 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in drinking water on five continents - from Trump Tower in New York to a public tap on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda - posing a potential risk to people's health, researchers said on Wednesday.
KAMPALA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Fistfights and chair-throwing broke out in Uganda's parliament on Tuesday ahead of a debate on whether to grant long-serving President Yoweri Museveni another term in office.
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a meeting of members of the African Union during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, at U.N headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
"Ritual killing is one of the motives that we suspect, we also think there might be cases of jilted lovers," police spokesman Asan Kasingye said by telephone. "Other theories might come up as investigations progress."
More than 130 Chinese firms now produce electric shock stun batons, spiked batons, weighted leg cuffs and other "potentially dangerous law enforcement equipment", up from 28 in 2003, the UK-based rights campaign group said in a report co-authored with Omega Research Foundation.
Saujani spoke with Business Insider about what drives her to pound down doors, how she's overcome political scandals, and how failure caused her to found an influential high school program, Girls Who Code.
By UNICEF's latest count, in 2013, the births of about 230 million children under age 5 - 35 percent of the world's total - had never been recorded. Later this year, UNICEF plans to release a new report showing that the figure has dropped to below 30 percent due to progress in countries ranging from Vietnam and Nepal to Uganda, Mali and Ivory Coast.
The move to extend Museveni's rule follows a trend in which some African leaders have sought to remove legal obstacles to their time in power. In Burundi, one of the world's poorest countries, the president's move in 2015 to seek a disputed third term sparked deadly protests and prompted more than 200,000 to flee the country.
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