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  • Nigerian Girls Build Robots to Tackle Waste

    NIGERIA, 2016/02/27 The Odyssey Educational Foundation is a Nigerian NGO that works with children in 15 national schools in Abuja to offer a rich learning experience in robotics, computer programming and the four STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and maths. The foundation aims to encourage additional children, particularly girls, to think about pursuing science and technology careers. The organisation was set up by Esther Uzochukwu-Denis in 2013, next she travelled to India to complete an MSc. Set on pursuing a career in the telecommunications industry, she changed her mind at the same time as she discovered that school clubs in India taught children programming and provided additional STEM tuition. Inspired by the experience, she returned home determined to offer the same service to Nigerian children.

  • Global wildlife agency hails Sino-U.S. deal to save elephants

    CHINA, 2015/09/29 A world wildlife conservation organization on Monday lauded agreement reached between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama committing to take swift action to protect elephants. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) CEO Azzedine Downes said the agreement reached on Friday would play a key role in ending the poaching crisis across the globe. "President Xi has delivered a tremendous victory in the battle to save elephants. China has slammed the door in the face of all those who are profiting from the slaughter of elephants," Downes said in a statement released in Nairobi.

  • Coordinator of East African Tourism Platform (EATP) steps down

    AFRICA, 2015/03/28 Three years ago the East African Tourism Platform (EATP) was launched across the East African Community, amid some serious fanfare for that matter, and it was the first time that a regional tourism apex body was put into place, able to lobby at the East African Community (EAC) level and also at the level of national governments. It was also the first time many heard and then met Waturi Wa Matu, who was to become the Coordinator at the EATP office which was based in Nairobi and attached to the Kenya Tourism Federation offices. Waturi did not remain a stranger and soon her name was known in all tourism forums across the region, with the words “here, there, and everywhere” coming to mind as she jetted from event to event, from city to city, and from country to country to stand by the national tourism associations and support them in their quest to be heard, listened to, taken more seriously, and most important, promoting the common policies agreed on at the EATP level.

  • Sunpower Announces 160-Megawatt Solar Panel Manufacturing Facility in South Africa

    UNITED STATES, 2014/11/05 SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), a leading solar technology and energy services provider, today announced plans to own and operate a solar panel manufacturing facility in Cape Town, South Africa, to meet the growing request for solar in that region. At this new plant, SunPower will manufacture its high efficiency SunPower E20/440 Solar Panels and expects to produce up to 160-megawatts (MW) annually. The company estimates that it will create up to 150 local jobs and will begin recruitment efforts in the initial quarter of 2015. This facility will as well home SunPower's Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operations & Management (O&M) offices, consolidating its South African business into one building.

  • INTEGRATED WIND ENERGY GENERATION PROGRAM

    MOROCCO, 2014/02/02 An accelerated economic and social growth due to the implemention for major infrastructures projects and success ouman and sustainable development programs. This unprecedented boom will lead to sustained growth of energy needs. To take up this big challenge and guarantee a responsible development, a new expansion plan was elaborated on the basis of a global and integrated vision. This plan includes a diversifiede l ectri cbouquet , in which the renewable energies occupy a place of choice.

  • Integrated Solar Energy Generation Project

    MOROCCO, 2014/02/02 «Moroccan Agency For Solar Energy», in short “ MASEN “, a Joint Stock Company with a Board of Trustees and a Supervisory Board. The company aims at implementing a program for the development of integrated electricity production projects from solar energy with a minimum total capacity of 2000 MW. Integrated Solar Energy Generation Project This project is a part of the large projects planned as following to the High Royal Orientations related to mobilization of the national renewable resources and the preservation of environment .

  • Floods affect more than half million people in Sudan

    SUDAN, 2013/08/28 The impact of Sudan's floods has widened, the United Nations said on Tuesday, with additional than half a million people affected by this month's inundations. "An estimated 574,540 people have been affected," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, citing government figures. The number of flood victims has risen as additional rains come down and new data becomes available.

  • Remediation project BAY COCODY

    ABIDJAN, 2012/12/30   Remediation project BAY COCODY  We have a large project starting soon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where we will clean and reconstruct a bay. The bay in question is Cocody Bay. This bay has seen its better days and the country wants to restore it to its former self and we’ll make sure it gets done. Cocody Bay today is not as beautiful as it was once upon a time, it is because of the extreme pollution in the form of fertilizer, sewage and other debris that comes during rain periods with flood waters.
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