Rwanda: Normalized a “strategic partnership” with Rio Tinto Minerals Development Limited centralizing on bolstering the Exploration and Mining of Lithium and other Associated Mineral Deposits

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Rio Tinto Group, a British-Australian multinational company is one of the leading mineral exploration and development firms. The outgrowth pursues prefatory sessions between the corporation executives and President Paul Kagame, incorporating one during the January World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos with Jakob Stausholm, the company’s Chief Executive Officer. President Kagame alike met with Dominic Barton – Chairman of Rio Tinto, to talk about strategic cooperation in July 2023. According to the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), the consensus illustrates an important measure onward in progressing the country’s $150 billion- potential mining sector and supporting its sustainable economic...
Posted On 29 Jul 2024
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Mozambique: Received a $2 Million Fertilizer Financing Project Blastoff by the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism with the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP)

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– …named as the Fertilizer Financing for Sustainable Agriculture Management in Mozambique, strives to upgrade entry to fertilizer for 300,000 smallholder agriculturalist and improve their productivity and wealth, in the subsequent years. AFAP will influence the Mechanism’s $2 million partial trade credit warranty to fit out warranties to 5 fertilizer suppliers for the delivery, on credit, of 60,000 tons of fertilizer to smallholder growers, through 30 hub agro-dealers, and 125 retail agro-dealers. This alliance will decrease the threats that suppliers encounter delivering fertilizers in Tete, Manica, Nampula, Zambezia, Sofala and Gaza regions. The project correspondingly incorporates a $877,980 grant for...
Posted On 26 Jul 2024
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By way of battle: West Africa’s Plastic Predicament the ECOWAS Parliament assembled in Winneba to…

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Curled up…Ghana’s sun-drenched coastline, Winneba recreates innholder to an essential conference of the Economic Community of West African States Parliament, to contend a pressing regional issue. From July 29th to August 3rd, 2024, parliamentarians across West Africa will coalesce in this historic groping village to handle the environmental emergency threatening coastal precincts. Owing to a ground of rhythmic waves and the depressing sight of plastic litter, the parliamentarians strive to chart a path onward in the fight against marine pollution. Alexander Kwamena Afenyo Markin, 3rd Deputy Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament and MP for Effutu emphasizes the urgency: “Plastic waste is suffocating our oceans,...
Posted On 25 Jul 2024
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By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– The strategy was equally approved by the African ICT and Communications Ministers of the AU, last month, amongst others. This was revealed by the AU via its X page on Tuesday, July 17th, 2024, onwards of the final adoption of the strategy. The strategy strives to rev “Africa’s digital transformation” by keeping ajar the prospect of new digital technologies in Nigeria and other African nations. Nairametrics earlier noted that, over 130 African ministers and experts virtually convened between June 11th to 13th, 2024 for the AU 2nd Extraordinary session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Communication and ICT. The discussion was sought at torching digital transformation across the mainland amidst...
Posted On 24 Jul 2024
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