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AfDB Backs Cabo Verde’s Clean Energy Expansion with €19.6m
TechEconomy
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June 16, 2025
Advertisements The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Board of Directors has approved €19.6 million in financing for the Cabeólica Phase II Expansion Project in Cabo Verde. Building on the success of the original Cabeólica project commissioned...
EU promises one billion in funding for the blue economy in Cape Verde
Portugal Pulse
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June 16, 2025
“We put forward our concerns and projects. The European Union committed to funding one billion euros for blue economy programs,” stated Jorge Santos at a press conference about the country’s participation in the conference, which took place from...
New map reveals where specific climate change policies are active
Environment Journal
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June 25, 2025
From carbon pricing to net zero emissions, the graphic shows which countries are leading the way on progressive regulations. Based on data from REN21 — a policy network and a multi-stakeholder governance group which focuses on low carbon an...
Three countries and a book
Navhind Times
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July 10, 2025
Students from Goa, Cape Verde, and Portugal, have come together to create the third edition of the book ‘Stories from here and beyond’ ELSTAN NAZARETH In a unique initiative aimed at educating children on various environmental themes and the...
It’s Saharan dust season, but where’s the dust?
Local 10 - Florida
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July 11, 2025
Big outbreaks of Saharan dust – tens of millions of tons of mineral dust hoisted from the sands of North Africa into the Atlantic each hurricane season – typically peak around this time each year. The band of sand that’s most concentrated between...
Harimau Malaya aims for top 100 FIFA ranking, says Zainal
The Sun Daily
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July 11, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR: National football legend Datuk Zainal Abidin Hassan is optimistic that the Harimau Malaya squad can achieve a top 100 FIFA ranking in the coming years. Speaking after the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) and Bank Islam...
How to stabilise Africa’s debt
Windhoek Observer
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In the context of high global uncertainty, tighter global financial conditions, and rising borrowing costs, concerns about sub-Saharan Africa’s debt vulnerabilities are mounting. But the region is tackling this issue head-on, and public debt...
How To Stabilise Africa’s Debt, By IMF
Daily Independent
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July 10, 2025
1 International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said that in the context of high global uncertainty, tighter global financial conditions, and rising borrowing costs, concerns about sub-Saharan Africa’s debt vulnerabilities are mounting. But, the region...
Are anti-corruption measures a pipe dream for African countries?
IOL
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African Anti-Corruption Day is observed on 11 July annually to commemorate the adoption of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption in 2003. Corruption remains a major obstacle to economic development and continues to...
17 neighborhood restaurants we can’t live without
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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There are certain spots that just make a neighborhood itself. Maybe it’s the reliable pick for date night. Maybe it’s the place you go for long, intimate catch ups with old friends. Maybe it’s where you stop by on your way home to eat at the bar...
Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty
Rest of World
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July 9, 2025
A battle for data sovereignty is brewing from Africa to Asia. Developing nations are challenging Big Tech’s decades-long hold on global data by demanding that their citizens’ information be stored locally. The move is driven by the realization...
ECOWAS MP urges W/African nations to invest 30% budgets in education
Daily Trust
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July 4, 2025
The Chairman of the ECOWAS Parliament Committee on Health and Member of Parliament from Cabo Verde, Dr Orlando Pereiza Dia, has called on West African countries to allocate at least 30 per cent of their national budgets to education. He said such...
Where do tropical storms typically form in the Atlantic? Month-by-month breakdown
FOX 35 Orlando - Florida
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FOX 35 Meteorologist Laurel Blanchard has the latest conditions in the tropics. The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season runs July 1 - November 30. Download the FOX Local app for tropical alerts and notifications. ORLANDO, Fla. - As meteorologists, one...
Veronic Aisha Malack: The Gambian Trailblazer Redefining Women’s Football
The Fatu Network
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July 9, 2025
- Advertisement - By: Muhammed Lamin Drammeh In the sun-drenched streets of Abuko, The Gambia, a young Veronic Aisha Malack chased a football with a defiance that would define her life. Surrounded by brothers and sisters, she kicked up dust on...
Great Seamanship: Tales from the Golden Globe Race
Yachting World
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July 9, 2025
Solo round the world skipper Tapio Lehtinen has a narrow-miss when sleep deprived on the Golden Globe Race. Tom Cunliffe introduces this extract from The Last Voyage of Asteria Ten years or so ago I was contacted by a Finnish yachtsman, Tapio...
This African Island Nation Is Betting Big on Becoming The Next Global Tech Hub
NBC 4 - Washington D.C.
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July 7, 2025
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FirstWorks debuts in Central Falls and more summer sounds
The Valley Breeze - Rhode Island
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For the first time in five years, FirstWorks is expanding its Summer Beats Concert Series lineup to the city of Central Falls, with a free concert celebrating Cape Verdean culture scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 9, at Jenks Park, 602 Broad St.,...
Tall ship's arrival in Falmouth will complete two-year sail of Darwin's route
The Packet
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July 5, 2025
The Oosterschelde is the flagship of the DARWIN200 Global Voyage, which honours Charles Darwin’s legacy and shines a light on the environmental leaders now carrying his mission forward. Falmouth was the port where HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin...
Festival MED 25: Loulé, a City Filled with the Sounds of the World
World Music Central
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July 8, 2025
Loulé cast aside its provincial character and, for three days, became a vibrant musical capital of the world. Around 25,000 people gathered to celebrate another edition of Festival MED, which, in its twenty-first installment, once again proved...
Ask the Meteorologist: How were Chantal, Fran similar and different from one another?
WRAL 5 - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
People in Chapel Hill and Durham were able to use Hurricane Fran as a baseline to compare what they just saw with Tropical Storm Chantal. In fact, the picture at the top of this article was taken by Casey Neal. It shows the sign in the Eno River...