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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...
Full list of players for each team in the 2025 NBA Summer League
Sporting News
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July 7, 2025
With the draft and free agency in the rearview, summer league action is the next major tentpole on the NBA's offseason calendar. The action begins when eight franchises send teams to either Salt Lake City or San Francisco from July 5-8, before all...
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...
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....
US surgeon operates on patient in Angola remotely
The Malaysian Star
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June 29, 2025
A cancer patient in Angola recently underwent the first robotic surgery on the continent conducted remotely by a surgeon in the United States, according to the hospitals involved. The prostatectomy – partial or complete removal of the prostate –...
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...
Angola Cables, MEO Wholesale Solutions Unite To Link Atlantic
Submarine Telecoms Forum
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June 23, 2025
Angola Cables Press Release June 20, 2025 Digital ‘super corridor’ to provide direct access for Euro-based entities to rapidly access markets in the US, South America and Africa. Friday, 20 June 2025 Lisbon, Portugal: MEO Wholesale Solutions have...
'Minerals': Researcher explains U.S. interest in DRC-Rwanda truce
Africanews
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June 28, 2025
The agreement signed between DRC and Rwanda has been touted by many as a major step towards ending years of war in Congo's east. The United States which brokered the deal got involved after Kinshasa proposed a minerals-for-security offer. But Dr....
Angolan President officially opens U.S.–Africa Summit
Informante
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June 23, 2025
Staff Reporter PRESIDENT João Lourenço of Angola officially opened the 17th United States (U.S.)–Africa Business Summit on Monday in Luanda, with Heads of State and Government in attendance, alongside thousands of other participants, including...
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...
Trump Terminates Trade Talks with Canada over Tax on Tech Firms
The National Herald
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June 27, 2025
President Donald Trump said he’s immediately suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called “a direct and blatant attack on our country.” Trump, in a post on his social media network...
Angola wants American investment in Africa in manufacturing industries
Ver Angola
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João Lourenço, who is also the president of the African Union, was speaking this Monday at the official opening of the 17th United States of America-Africa Business Summit, which runs until Wednesday and is being attended by the presidents of the...
US-Africa Summit in Luanda: A Strategic Milestone for the Economic Future of Angola and the Continent
Ver Angola
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At a time when the global economy is facing geopolitical challenges, persistent inflation and urgent needs for energy and digital transition, this summit demonstrated that Angola and Africa are on the radar of major global decisions. Luanda was...
Minister says Angola's experience in OPEC “was not good”
Ver Angola
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“OPEC is a cartel, whether we like it or not. And like all cartels, it lives off imposed quotas. Angola was not meeting the quota, it was the quota meeting us. The time would come when we would have to cut production. And that would not be fair to...
Cavista Holdings Promotes Technological Advancements At U.S Africa Business Summit – Olayomi
Daily Independent
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June 27, 2025
2 Cavista Holdings has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting technological Advancements in Africa. Cavista Holdings, a lead sponsor of the 2025 US-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, Angola, is a global investment and holding company dedicated to...
Angola strengthens US ties
Business Ghana
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Angola’s national oil company Sonangol has signed two agreements with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – a private university based in Boston, United States (US) – aimed at strengthening cooperation and knowledge-transfer in the...
Book tells the story of a people led by a succession of women in Angola
Ver Angola
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Written by José Inácio Bwameso, the book, which will be presented in Lisbon, is the first literary work to tell the story of this people, a Bakongo subgroup that split off from the main nucleus of the former Kingdom of Kongo around 400 years ago....
US commercial diplomacy jumps first fence in Angola
Africa Confidential
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US commercial diplomacy jumps first fence in Angola Africa Confidential Ahead of the signing of a peace deal on 27 June between Congo-Kinshasa and Rwanda, mediated by Washington and premised on joint mining and processing operations, the United...