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Africa Must Define Its Energy Future – Heirs Energies CEO
New Telegraph
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August 18, 2025
The Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Energies, Osa Igiehon, has said that Africa must define its energy future by leveraging both its abundant hydrocarbons and renewable resources. He stated Heirs Energies is committed to making energy sufficiency...
Africa Data Centres achieves Level One Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) certification, reinforcing its commitment to inclusive digital transformation
Middle East News 247
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August 18, 2025
Africa Data Centres (www.AfricaDataCentres.com), a business of Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader of African heritage, has announced that it has achieved a Level One B-BBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) certification. This...
African Rainbow Minerals Increases Stake in Surge Copper to 19.9%, Signaling Continued Investment in Canadian Copper Project
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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August 18, 2025
African Rainbow Minerals (JSE:ARI), a South African-based mining company primarily involved in gold, platinum, and coal operations, has significantly increased its stake in Canadian junior miner Surge Copper Corp. (TSXV:SURG), according to public...
African Stars in Europe: Who Earns the Most and Why
Nigerian Eye
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August 18, 2025
It is a match day at the Santiago Bernabéu. With flashing cameras and chants from the stands in Madrid, it is game night. The silence precedes the turn around the corner, and there, looming over the crowd, is a man whose background was in the...
Africa’s geopolitical powerhouse may just bring peace between Israel and Gaza
Business Insider Africa
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August 18, 2025
According to sources familiar with the issue, a potential breakthrough in the fight between Hamas and Israel may be on the horizon after Hamas expressed consent to a cease-fire in Gaza. The development has fueled cautious hope among diplomats who...
Africa’s Top Climate Change Challenges: A Fairer Deal On Phasing Out Fossil
The Nigerian Voice
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Nearly 600 million people across the African continent still lack access to electricity. Close to one billion rely on traditional biofuels for cooking. Africa is also very vulnerable to climate change, even though it has contributed less than 5%...
“Africa must take charge of its energy future,” – Jinapor
MyJoyOnline
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August 18, 2025
“Africa must take charge of its energy future.” With this bold statement, John Abdulai Jinapor, Minister of Energy for the Republic of Ghana, has set the tone for Africa Oil Week (AOW) 2025, the continent’s largest upstream oil and gas event,...
Africa steps forward to combat climate change
Sabah
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August 18, 2025
Climate change poses enormous challenges to the survival of human beings and economic development. The issue has become an important talking point of governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers and academics for about half a...
Brazilian Technology Uses AI to Improve Offshore Oil Platform Safety
Offshore Source - Florida
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Shape Digital, Shell Brasil, MODEC Brasil and Unicamp have signed a partnership to develop new methodologies for monitoring operational risks using artificial intelligence. The solution will be based on Shape Reef, a tool for operational process...
Smart manufacturing: The future of global industry
Business and Financial Times
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August 18, 2025
By Abubakari Saddiq ADAMS The global manufacturing landscape is undergoing a seismic transformation, driven by rapid advancements in technology and the increasing demand for efficient, sustainable, and data-driven production processes. The smart...
Bridging the gap between teeming youth and skills deficit
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 19, 2025
Africa is a continent of contradictions, sitting between a growing young population, an army of unemployed youths and skill deficits to sustainably power its economy. Stakeholders reckon that the solution lies in connecting those dots, though with...
Ex-Imo First Lady Nkechi Okorocha inaugurates technical on AU Agenda 2063
Abuja Inquirer
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August 18, 2025
By Sarah NEGEDU Former Imo State First Lady, and founder of the non-governmental organisation, the Women of Divine Destiny Initiative, WODDI, Dr. (Mrs.) Nkechi Rochas Okorocha, has inaugurated a technical committee on the implementation of the...
Building trust, talent and technology to defeat malaria
News Ghana
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August 19, 2025
World Mosquito Day 2025: Why investment in communities, researchers and innovation matters more than ever Dr. Léa Paré Toé, Stakeholder Engagement Lead for Target Malaria Burkina Faso OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, August 18, 2025 /African Media...
Trust and Safety Expert Mr. Emmanuel Adinkrah exposes Africa’s financial sex
Modern Ghana
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Mr. Emmanuel Adinkrah, President of the Ghana Internet Safety Foundation (GISF), Founder of the Trust and Safety Africa Academy, and a member of the Trust and Safety Professional Association (TSPA), delivered a powerful presentation at...
Financial literacy key to unlocking Africa’s crypto potential -Binance urges
Business and Financial Times
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August 18, 2025
By Ernest Bako WUBONTO Expanding financial literacy, particularly education focused on cryptocurrency markets, is the critical step needed to demystify misconceptions and unlock Africa’s vast digital asset potential, Head of Legal Counsel for...
Interswitch showcases hospitality-focused payment innovations at hotel managers conference
The Cable
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August 18, 2025
Interswitch, Leading African technology company focused on creating solutions that enable individuals and communities prosper, has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming the continent’s hospitality sector through technology during its...
TUC summit explores trade unions’ role in shaping future of work
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 19, 2025
Part of the conclusion reached at the just-concluded Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) summit by the South-West region is the need for trade unions to understand the dynamics and search for a strategic role in shaping the future of work. To...
Empowering women-led enterprises key to unlocking Africa’s economic potential, says Oye
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 18, 2025
The immediate past Chairman of the Organised Private Sector of Nigeria (OPSN) and 22nd National President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Dele Kelvin Oye, said empowering women-led...
Eyes on Africa: Where the state stops, the village begins
Richland Source - Ohio
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August 18, 2025
Why are we running a story on child care in South Africa? Source Media Properties is in the midst of a series examining child care in north central Ohio. The series title borrows from a famous African proverb, “it takes a village to raise a...
Digital Equity Africa showcases kids’ AI projects at Future Minds Demo Day
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 18, 2025
Digital Equity Africa at the weekend concluded the Future Minds AI Summer Camp 2025 with a Demo Day at the Alliance Française de Lagos / Mike Adenuga Centre, Ikoyi, where children between the ages 6 and 17 presented technology projects developed...