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Cape Town welcomed over 300 active and aspiring investors representing Africa’s early stage investing ecosystem for last week’s two-day Africa Early Stage Investor Summit organized by VC4A (www.VC4A.com) and ABAN (https://ABANAngels.org/). Celebrating its fifth year, the summit attracted the highest ever number of early
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Child marriage will cost African countries tens of billions of dollars in lost earnings and human capital, says a new World Bank report launched ahead of the African Union Commission’s second African Girls Summit on Ending Child Marriage taking place in Ghana this week. According to Educating Girls and
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A Gauteng provincial government skills empowerment programme, in the car manufacturing industry, has been commended by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) for contributing to job creation and youth empowerment in the province. The incubation programme which identifies young people and women with formal engineering qualifications and puts them through
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Three of the Bills are to give effect to revenue proposals. These are the 2018 Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, the 2018 Taxation Laws Amendment Bill and the 2018 Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill. Parliament held a number of public hearings on the Bills. The
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Le 1er Forum Continental de GMES et Afrique (www.au.int/en/GMESAfrica) a débuté dans la capitale Gabonaise, Libreville, où plus de 400 délégués d’Afrique, d’Europe et d’autres parties du monde se sont réunis pour discuter des nouvelles technologies innovantes dans le domaine de l’observation
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The 1st Forum of the GMES and Africa (www.au.int/en/GMESAfrica) has kicked off in the Gabonese capital, Libreville. More than 400 delegates from Africa, Europe and other parts of the world have gathered to discuss new and innovative Earth Observation technologies supporting Africa’s socio-economic development. Organized
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With at least 436,000 people currently internally displaced in Cameroon’s South-West and North-West – and in neighbouring departments – due to hostilities between armed groups and security forces, the country remains of urgent humanitarian concern. Humanitarian presence and response are slowly increasing in the affected areas, with priority given to
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The Portfolio Committee on Transport has today adopted the final report on the benefit scheme, paving the way for an introduction of the Road Accident Benefit Scheme (RABS). The Chairperson of the Committee, Ms Dikeledi Magadzi, said the committee was satisfied with the amount of hard work that members of
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TAB Finance, a new microfinance bank licensed by the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea, joins [Oradian](http://www.oradian.com/?utm_source=PR&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=TAB%20Finance)’s (www.Oradian.com) global community of visionary financial institutions. With this strategic partnership, [Oradian](http:
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The level of transparency in military spending in sub-Saharan Africa is greater than previously thought, according to a new report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (www.SIPRI.org). Between 2012 and 2017, 45 of the 47 states surveyed published at least one official budget document in a
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TAB Finance, a new microfinance bank licensed by the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea, joins [Oradian](http://www.oradian.com/?utm_source=PR&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=TAB%20Finance)’s (www.Oradian.com) global community of visionary financial institutions. With this strategic partnership, [Oradian](http:
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Protea Hotels (ProteaHotels.com) by Marriott, part of Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) (www.Marriott.com), announced the signing of Protea Hotel by Marriott Accra, Kotoka Airport, the brand’s second hotel in Ghana and the first Protea Hotel by Marriott in the capital city of Accra. Owned by Baobab