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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra Ghana- Marketing Director at leading fibre provider, Vuma indicated that “There needs to be a bigger push to equip girls with the relevant skills, insight, information and experience into technology-related fields. Just letting them know that this is an option is a big step. We need to let our girls know that being a tech leader is not far-fetched or unattainable for them”. It was rare to find a female who was looking to build a career in technology when she was in school, she says. However, organisations such as Girl Code, an NPO focused on empowering more young girls and women with coding skills, are doing away with these mindsets, and represent a massive and positive step towards empowering girls to take more of an interest in...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– In alliance with the Global Centre on Adaptation, the AfDB rolled out the Youth Adapt policy with a venture of $4 million into 33 businesses of young people in 19 African nations. The bank announced the intervention bolstered the profit of such commodities by 200% over the period. The AfDB’s President Dr. Akimi Adesina, said: “We have to put our money where our mouth is. The African Development Bank, together with the Global Centre on Adaptation, has a program called Youth Adapt. We have been financing this, with an investment of $4 million, supporting the ideas and businesses of young Africans, basically seed financing.” He noted at the African Youth Climate Assembly in Nairobi. “If those businesses...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Across the globe, thirty developers were asked to build plants on different plots, some of which have banked on Chinese technologies and equipment. The project has evolve a model for China-Egypt cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. The Benban Solar Park is found in Egypt’s Western Desert region, one of the driest and hottest places on Earth. To adequately curb the amount of sunlight, the administration of Egypt inaugurated an agenda to assemble a photovoltaic park. Thirty developers from around the planet were asked for to assemble solar power plants on forty one constituent plots. Two Chinese firms were chartered with six plants, with a collective output accounting for 20% of the...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Cable transport involves transporting people in motor-less, engine-less vehicles that are propelled by a steel cable, commonly known as ropeway. Cable transport is a broad class of transport modes that have cables. They transport passengers and goods, often in vehicles called cable cars. The cable may be driven or passive, and items may be moved by pulling, sliding, sailing, or by drives within the object being moved on cableways. Director General of LATRA – Habibu Suluo notified Tanzanians lately that they have accomplished a survey to recognize areas that are possible for the installation of cable transport systems. “After conducting a study, we identified Mbeya, Iringa, Tanga, Morogoro, Arusha and...