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ICANN Empowers Youths to Expand their Commitment

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in its quest to reach out to larger segments of internet users and populations has chosen youth as major mouth-pieces to spread the organization’s activities on the continent. Programs tailored for youth have been initiated where the next generation of leaders is groomed to play greater […]

Afreximbank approves $200 million for Uganda crude pipeline as NGOs denounce the project

Afreximbank has approved $200 million toward financing of a contested oil pipeline to export Uganda’s crude, while a report released by two environmental NGOs has warned of potentially “unacceptable” damage caused by a controversial project involving French oil giant TotalEnergies and China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). The Nigeria-based bank was also willing to finance […]

Mauritania: Anti-Slavery Activist to Return Home after 8-Month International Campaign

Birame ould Dah ould Abeïd, leader of the anti-slavery movement IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement) has announced his comeback to Mauritania for Sunday January 15 after he conducted an eight-month international campaign to denounce the ongoing phenomenon in the North African country, the last country in the world still practicing the […]