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Senegal to host 2025 Africa Facts summit
FactCheckHub
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June 30, 2025
THE Africa Check on Monday announced Senegal as the host country for the 2025 Africa Facts summit billed for October 1 – 2 in Dakar. According to the organizers, the event will bring together fact-checking organisations and experts from all parts...
NLNG Advocates Domestication of Technology to Deepen Local Content in Energy Sector
Prompt News Online
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July 1, 2025
NLNG has reinforced its call for the urgent need to domesticate technology as a key pillar for deepening local content in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. Speaking at the panel session titled “Technology as a Local Content Imperative: From Adoption...
Press Update: Formal Letters Dispatched to Senegalese Authorities Regarding Gambia-Senegal Hydrocarbon Concerns
The Fatu Network
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July 1, 2025
- Advertisement - By: Seringe S.T. Touray Mr. Ousman F. M’Bai has today dispatched formal letters to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Senegal, raising urgent and unresolved matters...
Technology key to West Africa’s future – ECOWAS Parliament
Daily Trust
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The ECOWAS Parliament has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing digital transformation in West Africa’s education sector, declaring education technology and innovation as essential tools for shaping the region’s future. Speaking at the high-level...
World News | He Pioneered Cellphone. It Changed How People Around World Talk to Each Other
Latestly
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July 2, 2025
Del Mar (US), Jul 2 (AP) Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola's research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan...
He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other — and don’t
Associated Press
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July 2, 2025
DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was...
He pioneered the cellphone, changing how people connect — and disconnect — globally
ABC News - New York
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July 2, 2025
DEL MAR, Calif. -- Dick Tracy got an atom-powered two-way wrist radio in 1946. Marty Cooper never forgot it. The Chicago boy became a star engineer who ran Motorola’s research and development arm when the hometown telecommunications titan was...
Rwanda Featured in Qualcomm’s Efforts to Support African Tech Startups
KT Press Rwanda
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June 29, 2025
1 Qualcomm, a global technology company, has announced 10 African startups selected for its 2025 Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program. The program helps early-stage tech companies grow through training, business support, and access to new...
Sustaining Africa’s economic resilience hinges on intra-trade, local investments, new partnerships – Kale, MD/Group Chief Economist, Afreximbank
Business Day
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July 2, 2025
A key takeaway from Afreximbank’s 2025 Annual Meetings, held Last week in Abuja, is the growing recognition of Africa’s resilience amid global shocks. However, Yemi Kale, Afreximbank’s Managing Director (Research & International Cooperation) and...
Which African Countries Are Flourishing? Scientists Have A New Way Of Measu
The Nigerian Voice
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What does it mean to live a good life? Psychologists and social scientists have been focusing on a new idea called flourishing – a sense of well-being that goes beyond just happiness or success. It’s about your whole life being good, including how...
Nigerian Banking Tech Firm Debuts in Untapped Ethiopian Market
The Reporter Ethiopia
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June 28, 2025
A Nigerian financial technology provider hopes to expand its business in Ethiopia following the successful execution of a digitalization contract with one of the scores of microfinance institutions operating in the country. Qore Technologies was...
Xi meets Ecuadorian president, Senegalese PM in Beijing
Global Times
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Top news Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko in Beijing on Friday. The two foreign leaders had just concluded their participation in the 2025 Summer Davos forum in...
ECOWAS Parliament Pushes for Regional AI Legal, Education Framework
Point Blank News
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July 2, 2025
58 By Lizzy Chirkpi The Economic Community of West African States Parliament has called for the establishment of a legal and educational framework to guide the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across West Africa. This...
CITES Proposals Aim To Stop Shark Extinction Spiral
Forbes
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A view of oceanic whitetip reef shark, who faces danger of extinction due to climate change and ... More human pollution.Anadolu via Getty Images Over 70 species of sharks and rays may soon receive their strongest lifeline yet. One June 30, 2025,...
He pioneered the cellphone. It changed how people around the world talk to each other —...
Journal News - Ohio
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Fifty-two years ago, Cooper declared victory in a call from a Manhattan sidewalk to the head of AT&T's rival program. His four-pound DynaTAC 8000X has evolved into a global population of billions of smartphones weighing mere ounces apiece. Some...
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WISC Channel 3000 - Wisconsin
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Brazil’s Supreme Court clears way to hold social media companies liable for user content SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing...
Ghana uses drone tech, AI to catch wildcat miners
Zawya
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As the afternoon sun beats down on Gold Fields' sprawling Tarkwa gold mine in southwestern Ghana, three men launch a drone into the clear sky, its cameras scanning the lush 210km² tract for intruders. The drone spotted something unusual, and...
A sustainable agricultural intensification approach enhances food security & land conservation in Senegal, finds study
Down to Earth
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An innovative sustainable agricultural intensification approach in Senegal can enhance food security and land conservation through strategic crop choices in the West African country, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the...
Senegal and Alibaba, the benefits of a partnership with the Chinese e-commerce giant
Sene News
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June 24, 2025
Senegal is preparing to establish a strategic partnership with the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. This cooperation aims not only to ensure the success of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Dakar 2026, but also to strengthen the country’s...
Nigeria moves to overcome hurdles in regional trade integration
Punch
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July 2, 2025
Despite its dominance in regional trade, Nigeria faces structural and policy barriers that limit the full realisation of intra-ECOWAS commerce, including poor infrastructure, fragmented customs systems, and currency mismatches. The 2025 West...