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Mobile lenders drive microfinance entities to early grave

By Dominic Omondi | 7yrs ago

Janet Akinyi, a mama mboga (greengrocer) in one of Nairobi’s low-income suburbs, is neck-deep in debts which she incurred from the myriad mobile lending platforms that seem to mushroom with every crack of dawn.

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