Angola Oil & Gas (AOG) 2024 Houston Event to Showcase Opportunities in Angolan Exploration

[[{"value":"Investors and project developers from the U.S. oil and gas industry will have the chance to gain insight into upcoming opportunities in Angola during the Angola Oil&Gas (AOG) 2024 networking event – taking place 17:00-20:00 on March 19 in Houston. The event fosters engagement between U.S.-based operators and Angolan leaders, with presentations outlining available blocks and partnership prospects. The networking event comes ahead of the AOG conference in Luanda – […]

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APO International

Ghana Unveils First International Standard Rugby Stadium in West Africa

[[{"value":"In a ground-breaking development for sports, Ghana proudly unveiled the Rugby Stadium at the 2024 African Games (https://apo-opa.co/3V9VQc6) scheduled from March 8 to March 23 in Accra, Ghana. Situated at the University of Ghana, the stadium holds the promise of becoming a cornerstone for hosting international rugby competitions. The Rugby Stadium serves as the first international standard rugby stadium in West Africa. Adhering to World Rugby Guidelines and Regulations, the […]

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South Africa

Trevor Manuel views cadre deployment as the greatest weakness in South Africa at present

SA Former Finance minister and anti-apartheid activist, Trevor Manuel, says the greatest weaknesses in the state at present are cadre deployment and financial management. He gave the keynote address at Daily Maverick’s The Gathering 2024 in Cape Town yesterday. Manuel says his generation has been accused of walking away from an incomplete transition, adding that there was a need for an honest discussion about those aspects that remained undone including […]

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Namibia

Omaheke Region Hosts Ritja Career Fair for Secondary School Learners

Secondary school learners from across the Omaheke Region are currently attending the Ritja Career Fair at the Legare Stadium in Gobabis. During Thursday's sessions, speakers highlighted the significant role of career fairs in guiding learners toward diverse career paths for both personal and national development. Patron of the Ritja Career Fair, Khomas Governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua, emphasized the importance of such gatherings in facilitating interactions between learners and institutions, with a […]

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World

Prosecutors seek delay in Trump trial

The Manhattan District Attorney has requested Donald Trump's hush money trial be delayed by 30 days. Jury selection was scheduled to begin on March 25th in the first of four criminal cases that the former president faces. William Denselow reports from New York.

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Environment

Sewage leaks put South Africa’s freshwater at risk: how citizen scientists are helping clean up

By Jim Taylor, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Mark Graham, University of KwaZulu-Natal Across South Africa, sewage systems are leaking and contaminating the country’s freshwater. Involving the affected communities can help prevent this pollution hazard, as a group of 15 citizen scientists in KwaZulu-Natal province have shown. Their community water monitoring programme, working with municipal authorities, has managed to prevent raw sewage from flooding into rivers. The young, unemployed […]

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APO International

Verdant Capital advises UsPlus on its USD 8 million senior unsecured debt capital raise from the United States (U.S) International Development Finance Cooperation (“DFC”)

[[{"value":"Verdant Capital (www.Verdant-Cap.com) is pleased to announce that it has acted as financial advisor and arranger of a USD 8 million senior unsecured debt funding for US Plus Limited (“UsPlus”), a fast-growing specialist small- and medium-sized enterprise (“SME”) financing firm based in South Africa. The investor in the transaction is the United States International Development Finance Corporation (“DFC”), an agency of the United States Government and a top development finance […]

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APO International

Disruption to international submarine cables off the West African coast [West Africa Cable System (WACS), South Atlantic-3 (SAT-3), MainOne, Africa Coast to Europe (ACE)]

[[{"value":"Whilst the cause of the reported cable breaks off the Ivory Coast of West Africa has not yet been confirmed, Angola Cables (www.AngolaCables.co.ao) is ensuring that the impact on Angola and other African countries is being minimized by redirecting international data and traffic to the SACS cable, which connects Angola directly to Brazil and from there to the United States and Europe. Angola Cables has network backup and restoration solutions […]

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APO International

Sudan: Urgent Action Needed on Hunger Crisis

[[{"value":"United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to alert the Security Council in the coming days that Sudan has entered a downward spiral of extreme conflict-induced hunger, Human Rights Watch said today. The council should immediately take action, including by adopting targeted sanctions against individuals responsible for obstructing aid access in Darfur. “The Security Council will be formally put on notice that the conflict in Sudan risks spurring the world’s largest hunger crisis,” said Akshaya Kumar, […]

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Month: March 2024