• The shopkeeper is now the bank
• Rubbish is worth gold
• Feeding Goma
THE SHOPKEEPER IS NOW THE BANK In Tanzania, banking no longer needs a branch. The hardware seller, the grocer, the kiosk owner open accounts, take deposits and hand out cash on behalf of the big banks. RUBBISH IS WORTH GOLD In Cameroon, one company captures the methane from organic waste and sells it back as cooking gas. What used to clog the streets is now energy. FEEDING GOMA And in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, young entrepreneurs have turned food insecurity into a market, and into a living.