Promoting Africa
Diakaridia Diarra is a 2nd grade teacher at the Fadjiguila Community School (Banconi District Education Office) that is situated on the outskirts of Bamako. He was faced with a common problem faced by others in the field of Language and Communication – he would mix up writing and penmanship. Mr. Diarra regrets moments when his…
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Among the sustainable development goals (SDGs), goal number three is to promote and ensure good health and well being of people of all ages by promoting preventive and curative or generally provision and access to universal healthcare. In line with this SDG, focusing on health, actions are encouraged to foster public health, including different actions,…
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Increased pressures on the environment, more particularly, the natural resources, has necessitated efforts at research and development, and innovations with an objective of ensuring the sustainable utilization of non-renewable resources and responsible exploitation or use of renewable resources. A focus area, particularly in Africa, in an endeavor to foster sustainability, has been the harvesting or…
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Mara Group, a new tech company based in Rwanda, Africa, made history last month, by launching the first manufactured and assembled smartphones in Africa: Mara X & Mara Z. "While smartphones are assembled in other African nations (Egypt, Algeria, and South Africa all have assembly plants), according to Reuters, those companies all import the components." Mara is the first company…
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If Abidjan (Ivory Coast) is well known for being the "capital of joy", the Ivorian capital also wants to impose itself in contemporary art. Let's take a closer look at what the city offers. A biennale of contemporary art in Abidjan? artiste : Serge Niemandi - photo : C.Kamanan Contemporary African art lovers have already…
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Team Acrobot from West Africa Ghana took first place in the Senior Game Division at the Robofest World Championships, held Saturday May 18 at Lawrence Technological University, in Southfield, Michigan. Team Acrobot from the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation Team Acro-Bot, nine girls from the Methodist Girls’ High School in the Eastern Region of Ghana, were…
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Kenya’s first human milk bank has opened at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. "Pumwani Maternity Hospital was selected as the site for the pilot human milk bank due to the number of vulnerable neonates in need" (Mike Mbuvi, governor of Nairobi City County). Nairobi’s neonatal deaths (deaths during the first 28 days of life), is the highest…
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