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BotswanaPost launches solar-powered Post Office
MMEGI
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July 7, 2025
This initiative, funded by the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) Fund, is part of a broader strategy to enhance operational resilience, environmental stewardship, and uninterrupted service delivery in remote and...
Financing Africa's Minerals: Momentum Builds Ahead Of African Mining Week (AMW) 2025
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) International finance institutions are playing an increasingly pivotal role in Africa's mining sector, providing essential capital and technical support to unlock the continent's vast mineral potential. Last month, Angola...
Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds
Mongabay
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July 7, 2025
A new report documents some of the most widespread and damaging droughts in recorded history, between 2023 and 2025, affecting millions across Africa, the Mediterranean, Latin America and Southeast Asia. More than 90 million people across Eastern...
Global drought crisis deepens: Record heat and El Niño drive humanitarian disaster
Mail & Guardian
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July 7, 2025
Extracting water from a traditional well using a manual pulley system. (Abdallah Khalili / UNCCD) Some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have unfolded since 2023, a new UN-backed report has found. The analysis...
Annual GirlCode Hackathon set to empower women in tech across Africa
South Africa Today
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July 16, 2025
In a world where innovation drives progress, and technology continues to shape how we live and work, women are increasingly making their mark in the tech sector. From classrooms to boardrooms, they are bringing new perspectives, solving complex...
The Kalahari Desert
Pilot Guides
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July 7, 2025
The Kalahari Desert is a vast semi-arid sandy savanna located in Southern Africa, covering parts of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. The Kalahari spans roughly 900,000 square kilometers (about 350,000 square miles). While often referred to as...
Africa and China: Turning FOCAC’s Strategic Upgrades Into Real Outcomes
The Diplomat
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July 14, 2025
As African and Chinese leaders gathered once again in Changsha in June 2025 for the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the momentum from last year’s...
Natural Habitat Adventures Introduces Peru’s First All-Electric Van for Tourism in Cusco & the Sacred Valley
Adventure Travel News
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July 7, 2025
Natural Habitat Adventures (Nat Hab), a leader in responsible nature-based adventure travel, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has introduced the first all-electric van (EV) for tourism use in Peru. The new all-electric vehicle...
Marking International Women’s Day 2025: Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej & First Ladies of Africa Empower ...
Business Ghana
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Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany together with First Ladies of Africa who are also their Ambassadors, Ministries of Health, Education, Communication & Gender, mark ‘International Women’s Day...
Competition Law as a catalyst for Ghana’s 24-Hour Economy and export ambitions
Joy FM
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July 17, 2025
“Competition policy is not a luxury or a regulatory nicety. It is an essential underpinning of the market economy. Developing countries need it as much as, or even more than, rich countries, because the risks of market abuses, cronyism, and...
Leaping Lemurs! Global Nature Abounds in the 2025 BigPicture Competition
Colossal
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July 16, 2025
Across a wide, rocky gap at the Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve in Madagascar, a lemur is illuminated by the sun as it leaps with its baby. Captured by Donglin Zhou, the photograph took the $5,000 Grand Prize in this year’s Big Picture...
Absa transforms banking operations with AI technologies
Punch
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July 16, 2025
Absa Group says it has successfully transformed its banking operations across multiple African countries by replacing legacy systems with modern, AI-ready SAP technologies in a decade-long digital overhaul. In a statement, the company said the...
Askari Metals: Building a Tier-1 gold portfolio in Ethiopia
Proactive Australia
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July 17, 2025
Ethiopia, a country known more for its rich cultural heritage than its mineral wealth, is emerging as a hotspot for mining investment. In recent years, the country has attracted considerable attention from foreign investors, thanks to its...
Agronomic Board builds homes at Buitepos
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB) has constructed two houses for the customs officials serving at Buitepos along the Botswana and Namibia border. The total cost of the first phase of the project was about N$4.6 million, which included the...
Chakwera hails President Boko for inspiring Malawians
The Maravi Post
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July 7, 2025
By Sellah Singini LILONGWE-(MANA)-President Lazarus Chakwera has hailed President of Botswana, Advocate Duma Gedion Boko for his words of encouragement to Malawians who have gone through a lot in the past five years. Chakwera said this on Monday...
Govt To Review Cash-In-Transit Police Escort
Botswana Gazette
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July 7, 2025
Introduced in 2021 in response to the alarming rise in heists at the time, the government is concerned about the financial burden of escorting cash-in-transit vehicles on the Botswana Police Service SESUPO RANTSIMAKO The government is currently...
Botswanan president stresses investment-friendly reforms, economic diversification
Xinhua News Agency
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GABORONE, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Botswanan President Duma Boko has said the government remains committed to transparent, investment-friendly reforms and the vision for a diversified economy. Boko made the remarks Thursday while meeting Chido Munyati,...
Zim migration story needs revisit
Zimbabwe Independent
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migration DEBATE on the number of Zimbabweans based in South Africa has been raging for years, but reached a crescendo when President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet resolved to cancel special permits for the migrants this year. In cancelling the...
Contaminated Limpopo River cause for concern in Beitbridge
Southern Eye
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Beitbridge district development co-ordinator, Sikhangezile Mafu Moyo, yesterday published a notice advising the community about the contamination. BEITBRIDGE residents are worried about water in the Limpopo River that has turned green and is...
Lack of collaboration between African nations preventing critical minerals beneficiation capability
Engineering News
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A severe lack of economic collaboration between nations is stifling Africa’s critical minerals beneficiation aspirations, expert panel members agreed during the Manufacturing Indaba, in Sandton, on July 16. The panel convened to discuss the...