Zandre Campos, CEO of ABO Capital, an international investment firm that builds opportunities in emerging markets across Africa, announced today that eight students from Complexo Escolar Privado Internacional (CEPI) – a school run by ABO Capital to help expand access to education in Angola – participated in the 2022 Copernicus Mathematics Olympiad, a paper-based competition in which students […]
Residents of Gaagbini, a farming community in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region were rendered homeless, following heavy rains in the municipality at the weekend. Some of the affected residents are putting up with friends and relatives. The heavy rains collapsed some mud houses and washed away farms, backyard garden and livestock.
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Alpha pays the community regularly for logs it harvests compared to other companies. It shares harvesting data with locals for checks and balances, according to Zelemen, who is also a member of the leadership of Salayea and Zorzor. The Kpayarquelleh Community Clinic sits on a hill in the town whose name it bears. Established in
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The Nigeria Consumer Protection Network (NCPN) yesterday argued that the proposed sale of the five National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) assets by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), poses a national security risk. President of the organisation, Kola Olubiyo, in a statement in Abuja, noted that the planned disposal of the plants under the Niger
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Maryland county — Nearly four weeks after autopsies were conducted on the lifeless bodies of late Anthony Tiaka and little Levi Koffa in Maryland county, citizens, including civil society organizations, have written Superintendent George A. Prowd, to explain the delay in releasing the autopsy results. In a communication to Superintendent Prowd on Monday, August 29,
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Even short spaceflights may be associated with DNA mutations that can increase astronauts’ risk of heart disease and cancer later in life, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Communications Biology, raising questions about spaceflight as several billionaire-backed companies race to turn visiting space into a tourist venture. KEY FACTS A team of researchers
A plan by the government of the Central African Republic to allow foreigners to acquire citizenship and land using a new cryptocurrency has been ruled as “unconstitutional” by the country’s top court. Last month the government launched Sango Coin amid a sharp fall in Bitcoin prices and doubts over the project’s viability in a country
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Kwikot’s Head of Sales, Felicity Sheridan, has realised her lifelong dream to lead the sales division of a multinational firm and to boot, she has done it in a traditionally male-dominated sector servicing the plumbing industry and market. Sheridan took a few moments to reflect on her sales journey and success with Kwikot, the local
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Ask most South African women about mining, and chance are they’ll think of dark and dirty work, done deep in the bowels of the earth. In reality, the industry is offering a greater range of women than ever before the chance to forge meaningful careers across a range of disciplines. Tanya Hendriks Virginia Raisibe Tanya
