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Angolan Diamond Leaders Endiama and Sodiam Join the Natural Diamond Council. De Beers Group Commits Additional Investment to Jointly Promote the Natural Diamond Industry.
The Slovenia Times
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July 7, 2025
HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 7 July 2025 - Angola's two leading state-owned diamond institutions, ENDIAMA E.P. and SODIAM E.P., have formally announced their joint commitment to generic category marketing by joining the Natural...
Luanda to Host Major Africa Tourism-Aviation Conference
News Ghana
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July 5, 2025
Angola’s capital will convene the 2nd UN Tourism and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Ministerial Conference on Tourism and Air Transport in Africa from 22–24 July 2025. The high-level forum, co-organized by the Angolan government,...
U.S. firm to build $1.5B power line linking Angola, DRC
Business Insider Africa
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July 6, 2025
The project, valued at $1.5 billion, addresses persistent power shortages in the DRC’s southeastern Copperbelt region, which hosts critical mineral mines. With Angola enjoying a surplus of energy at its hydropower sites, the line will connect...
Luanda to host 2nd UN Tourism and ICAO Ministerial Conference on Air Transport and Tourism in Africa
Business and Financial Times
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July 5, 2025
Luanda, the vibrant capital of Angola, is preparing to host the 2nd UN Tourism and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Ministerial Conference on Tourism and Air Transport in Africa, scheduled for 22–24 July 2025. The high-level...
Angola to start producing animal vaccines next year
Ver Angola
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The project, currently under construction in the province of Huambo, has an investment of 125 million euros and is being carried out by the Portuguese-Angolan and German consortium Noráfrica-Gauff, and is expected to begin operating in the first...
Deep tech merger forms MagnaTerra Technologies
Cairns Post
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July 5, 2025
A new deep tech company, MagnaTerra, has been formed after the merger of globally leading startups NextOre and MRead MagnaTerra’s launch follows an $11 million capital raise and support from some of Australia’s leading investors in technology,...
Deep tech startup merger creates global powerhouse MagnaTerra Technologies
Stockhead
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July 5, 2025
A new deep tech company, MagnaTerra, has been formed after the merger of globally leading startups NextOre and MRead MagnaTerra’s launch follows an $11 million capital raise and support from some of Australia’s leading investors in technology,...
‘Tech Domestication To Broaden Local Content In Energy Sector’
Leadership
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July 3, 2025
The Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited has said that technology domestication is critical to provide buffer for strengthening local content in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. The NLNG reinforced the call at the panel session titled...
Certification for exports worries Angolan producers despite EU ensuring entry into Europe
Ver Angola
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Luís Assis, head of the company Agreement, is one of the producers who expressed doubts about certification during a visit by European ambassadors accredited in Angola to two provinces crossed by the Lobito Corridor (Huambo and Bié), on Wednesday....
Why Nigeria isn’t advancing in technology –NLNG
The Sun Nigeria
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July 3, 2025
By Adewale Sanyaolu NLNG has said no country has advanced by learning technology in someone else’s language, stressing that Germans speak German while Chinese code in Chinese. Speaking at the panel session titled “Technology as a Local Content...
Telesurgery in Nigeria: Ready or not?
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 7, 2025
In the quiet early hours of Wednesday morning in Zamfara, seven-year-old Amina fusses in her hospital bed. Her grandmother, Hajiya Fatima, has traveled three days by bus, carrying prayers and her life savings, hoping against hope. Amina needs...
NLNG Considers Domestication Of Technology As Key To Broaden Local Content In Energy Sector
Oriental News Nigeria
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July 2, 2025
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited, says technology domestication is critical to provide buffer for strengthening local content in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. The NLNG reinforced the call at the panel session titled...
Luanda Accord: Bold new step for natural diamonds
MMEGI
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June 30, 2025
The natural diamond industry is mounting the largest marketing campaign in more than a decade. Last year the industry agreed to reignite ‘category marketing’ which involves diamond producers, retail jewellers, and countries, linking up to promote...
This week in history: July 7-13
World Socialist Web Site
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July 7, 2025
25 years ago: Hundreds perish in Philippines garbage landslide On July 10, 2000, an enormous garbage dump in the Philippines—covering an area of 74 acres and rising as high as seven stories—collapsed like an avalanche on the impoverished ghettos...
Liberia: Govt, Ivanhoe Atlantic Set to Sign Landmark Rail Access Agreement
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 6, 2025
In a remarkable breakthrough for Liberia’s mining and logistics sectors, the Government of Liberia and Ivanhoe Atlantic (formerly High Power Exploration/”HPX”) are set to sign a long-awaited Concession and Access Agreement (CAA) on Friday, July 4,...
Can Angola overcome corruption to attract Western investment?
Sunday Independent
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July 1, 2025
Manuel Godsin|Published 37 minutes ago 10min ANGOLA’S government has been working hard to court Western investors, but a fundamental problem continues to hold the country back: rampant corruption. In late June, Angola hosted the US-Africa Business...
NLNG Advocates Domestication of Technology to Deepen Local Content in Energy Sector
Prompt News Online
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July 1, 2025
NLNG has reinforced its call for the urgent need to domesticate technology as a key pillar for deepening local content in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. Speaking at the panel session titled “Technology as a Local Content Imperative: From Adoption...
Pensana Chief Executive Officer (CEO) To Headline African Mining Week (AMW), Amidst Rollout Of Angola's Flagship Rare Earth Mine
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Tim George, CEO of UK mining firm Pensana will participate at the upcoming African Mining Week (AMW) 2025 conference – Africa's premier gathering for mining stakeholders – as a speaker. George will contribute to a high-level...
LETTER: Israel’s global role in repression
BusinessLIVE
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Benji Shulman’s response (“Author overlooks Iran threat”, July 2) to my letter is not only hypocritical, it’s historically blind. As a cheerleader for a state committing genocide in Gaza, he ignores Israel’s long, well-documented global role in...
Ukraine Strengthens Food Security Ties with Kenya and Angola at UN Conference
Mezha
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June 30, 2025
Denys Shmyhal, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, held important talks with the presidents of Kenya and Angola during the UN Conference on Financing for Development, focusing on the issue of food security. He reported this on his Telegram channel....