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Nigeria:
Nigerian Migrants Remitted U.S.$21 Billion Home in 2012
This Day, 1 February 2013
Nigerians living abroad, who remitted $21 billion home last year, rank among citizens of the top five countries that remitted about $530 billion to their countries in 2012, showing… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Remittance Fees Cost Rwandans Billions
New Times, 29 January 2013
Rwandans living abroad could be sending more money back home if remittance fees were not too high, the World Bank says in a report. Read more »
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Africa:
Africans in the Diaspora Announces Campaign Success
AiD, 24 January 2013
Seven weeks ago, Africans in the Diaspora (AiD) launched a campaign to raise $30,000 for three social change organizations in Africa. The organization is pleased to announced that… Read more »
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Somalia:
Diaspora's Remittances Cast a Lifeline
Africa Renewal, 28 January 2013
During two decades of conflict, famines and floods, Somali expatriates' transmission of money back home -- known as "remittances" -- has been instrumental in keeping Somalia… Read more »
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Kenya:
Diaspora Remittances Hit Record High
Capital FM, 22 January 2013
Kenyans in the Diaspora sent home over Sh9 billion in remittances in December, pushing transfer of funds for the year to a record high of Sh104.3 billion. Read more »
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Africa:
Mobilizing the Diaspora to Invest in Africa
AiD, 19 December 2012
Two weeks ago, Africans in the Diaspora (AiD) launched its “New Year, New AiD” campaign to mobilize $30,000 from the Diaspora and friends of Africa for African social… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Remittance Investment Can Help Lift Poorest Nations
This Day, 29 November 2012
The United Nations trade and development body has urged that remittances to the world's least developed countries (LDCs) must play a greater role in reducing poverty while also… Read more »
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Africa:
UN - Remittance to Poorest Nations Increases to U.S.$27 Billion
Sudan Tribune, 28 November 2012
Remittances sent to poor nations from family and friends living abroad has increased from $3.5 billion in 1990 to $27 billion in 2011, according to a new United Nations report. Read more »
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Rwanda:
'johnny Come Lately' On the African Diaspora
New Times, 16 November 2012
In the winter of 2003, I found myself hurdled up in a 4 bed shared flat in Streatham, south London. Read more »