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Africa civil aviation body pledges to advance air travel liberalization
Xinhua News Agency
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LUSAKA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to promoting the liberalization of air travel across the continent. AFCAC Secretary General Adefunke Adeyemi underscored the...
North West Provincial Legislature On North West Transport Investments' (NTI) Legal Appeals Affecting Bus Workers
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The North West Provincial Legislature Portfolio Committee on Community Safety and Transport Management chaired by Hon. Freddy Sonakile would like to express its deep concern and outrage following reports that 14 employees of...
Gibraltar: The Strait That No Longer Divides Africa from Europe, but Two Visions of the World
Morocco World News
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August 18, 2025
For decades, the Strait of Gibraltar marked the boundary between a developed North and a dependent South. Today, it has become something else entirely, a strategic fault line between Europe turning inward and an emerging African front, anchored by...
TotalEnergies publishes 732-page tome as clearance eyed for South Africa exploration campaign
Upstream
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TotalEnergies has filed draft environmental documents with South Africa’s government outlining plans to drill multiple exploration and appraisal wells in 2026 or 2027 in the southern part of a huge deepwater block in the Orange basin. The French...
Egypt’s PM heads to Japan for TICAD 9 Africa development summit
Daily News Egypt
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August 18, 2025
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly left for Japan on Monday to attend the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), where his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Ishiba, is expected to propose a new economic...
KnowBe4 Report Reveals a Dangerous Cybersecurity Perception Gap in African Industries
Security Review
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KnowBe4 has released its new report “Africa Human Risk Management Report 2025”. The report reveals a mismatch between employer perceptions and employee experience of organisational cybersecurity in key African industries – with potentially costly...
ECU Archeologists find what they believe to be four shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina
Yahoo News
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — At the Office of State Archaeology Conservation Lab scientists with East Carolina University are preserving what they believe could be remains from four different shipwrecks — including one that may be the historic...
AfricAI Launches to Build Sovereign AI Solutions for Africa
I Africa
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August 18, 2025
Four global tech companies — Lakeba Group (Australia), Next Digital (Nigeria), AqlanX (UAE), and Agentic Dynamic (Netherlands) — have joined forces to launch AfricAI, a new joint venture dedicated to developing enterprise-grade artificial...
Africa50's Maputo gathering marks a turning point for African infrastructure
African Business
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August 18, 2025
This article was produced with the support of Africa50 The 2025 Africa50 General Shareholders Meeting (GSM), held in Maputo under the high patronage of Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo, was more than a formal gathering of shareholders....
Africa’s Moment: From Addis to the World, Food Systems Must Change Now
Inter Press Service
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August 18, 2025
Africa, Aid, Development & Aid, Food and Agriculture, Food Systems, Headlines Food and Agriculture Dr. Stefanos Fotiou is Director, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub UNFSS+4 delivered a clear message: solutions already exist. What’s missing is...
Africa's maritime network makes up 22.1% of intra-African goods transport
Hespress
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August 18, 2025
HESPRESS English – Morocco News Economy With MAPMonday 18 August 2025 - 14:59 Africa’s maritime network, with a 30,725 km coastline and numerous rivers and lakes, accounts for 22.1% of intra-African goods transport, revealed the 11th edition of...
Caribbean Increasingly Looks to Africa.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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August 18, 2025
- Advertisement - Across the Caribbean, pride in African heritage is becoming stronger. People are showing it through food, clothing, music, and travel. At the same time, leaders in Africa and the Caribbean are creating new trade and cultural...
South Africa’s Driving Licence Backlog Hits 540,000 as Printing Machine Crisis Worsens
South Africa Today
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August 18, 2025
South Africa’s driving licence backlog has surged to approximately 540,000, with applicants now waiting up to two months to receive their cards—and delays are expected to persist well into 2026. The crisis stems from the Department of Transport’s...
Embraer KC-390 transport aircraft offers Morocco greater reach and speed in Sahel operations
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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According to information published by Military Africa on August 16, 2025, Brazil’s aerospace manufacturer Embraer is on the verge of securing a landmark contract with the Royal Moroccan Air Force for the delivery of four to five KC-390 Millennium...
LOGISTICS: The Evasive Dark Fleet
Strategy Page
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August 18, 2025: The Russian economy and war effort in Ukraine is financed by oil and other energy exports. Russia is operating under severe economic sanctions imposed to reduce that income and create economic conditions for Russia that make it...
Africa: AI, data, climate action key to unlocking water finance
ESI Africa
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August 18, 2025
Africa must overhaul the way it finances water, combining regulatory reforms, better data and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), if it is to close the investment gap in the sector. The role of AI in helping to reshape...
Africa launches homegrown AI venture to drive digital sovereignty
Business Day
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August 18, 2025
Four global tech leaders—Lakeba Group (Australia), Next Digital (Nigeria), AqlanX (UAE), and Agentic Dynamic (Netherlands)—have formed AfricAI, a joint venture aimed at developing and deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions built locally for...
Africa fights back against a distorted 400-year-old world map
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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August 18, 2025
By Nana Karikari, Senior Global Affairs Correspondent The African Union has taken a bold step, backing a campaign to replace the 16th-century Mercator map with a more accurate representation of the world. At first glance, this might seem like a...
6 people killed in horrific Mpumalanga accident between 2 trucks
Briefly
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August 18, 2025
Six people lost their lives in a horrific crash on the R42 in Mpumalanga between two trucks, one of which was carrying farm workers Another car rammed into it from behind and killed six people while injuring more than several others South Africans...
Taxi vs e-hailing | Can SA’s two transport giants share the road without blood spills
eNCA
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Taxis's are the backbone of public transport For many South Africans, taxis remain the lifeline to work, schools, malls and government offices. From going to Home Affairs, to collecting SASSA grants and trips to the clinic. Theo Malele,...