New $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI launches in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda to catalyze investment in agriculture, energy, and transportation infrastructure NEW YORK and NAIROBI /PRNewswire/ — The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to accelerate economic development and promote climate resilient infrastructure investment across sub-Saharan Africa. Leveraging…

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New $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI launches in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda to catalyze investment in agriculture, energy, and transportation infrastructure NEW YORK and NAIROBI /PRNewswire/ — The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to accelerate economic development and promote climate resilient infrastructure investment across sub-Saharan Africa. Leveraging…

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UKEREWE is the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest inland island in Africa, with an area of approximately 530 square kilometre. Ukerewe Island is situated in the Ukerewe District, nearly 50 km north of Mwanza to which it is linked by ferry, and it takes 3 to 4 hours to travel. Ukerewe Island is situated 45 km…

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In a legal notice signed by the EAC Council of Ministers chair Betty Maina, the companies can now import, at zero percent for a year, raw materials and inputs for the manufacture of wire products Tanzanian companies have been granted exemption on imported products that attract 35 percent duty, barely a month after the EAC Common External Tariff came…

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Leaders from Japan and African nations on Sunday said the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine has caused a food crisis on the fast-growing continent, without referring to Moscow by name. “We underscore with deep concern the negative socio-economic impact of this (Ukraine) crisis, which has created food insecurity in Africa in the challenging context” of the post-COVID era, the…

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ANGOLA’S just-ended elections will go down the annals of history for the chastening defeat of the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the capital Luanda. The disgrace ends MPLA’S almost five-decade stranglehold. By ceding some control to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), MPLA has joined a growing trend in the…

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ANGOLA’S just-ended elections will go down the annals of history for the chastening defeat of the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the capital Luanda. The disgrace ends MPLA’S almost five-decade stranglehold. By ceding some control to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), MPLA has joined a growing trend in the…

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The ceremony is taking place in the capital Luanda on what would have been dos Santos’s 80th birthday, and comes days after his party, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), saw its worst results at the polls in the most hotly contested elections since independence. LUANDA – Angolans and a dozen African leaders, including South Africa’s…

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday held extensive talks with his visiting Tanzanian counterpart Stergomena Lawrence Tax to boost bilateral military-to-military cooperation in sync with India’s broader priority to deepen strategic ties with Africa.    In the discussions, the two defence ministers also explored new avenues for defence and industrial cooperation to further strengthen bilateral engagements, officials said.    Following the talks, Singh…

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Cape Town – The ANC has conveyed its congratulations to the people of Angola for staging peaceful general elections this week, as results slowly begin to trickle in, two days after voting took place on Wednesday. The ANC congratulated it’s ‘sister party’, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which looks set to win the elections, according…

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