Day: August 12, 2025

African Development Bank backs Artificial Intelligence (AI) training to boost Agenda 2063 implementation across Africa

Mr Mohammed

LUSAKA, Zambia, August 12, 2025/ — The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) is supporting a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) training initiative to advance the implementation of Africa’s continental development blueprint, Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want (http://apo-opa.co/4miWmzo). Through its Joint Secretariat Support Office (JSSO), the Bank provided technical and financial backing for the 5th Annual Training Workshop for African Union Member States on harnessing AI for effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on the Second Ten-Year Plan (2024–2033) of Agenda 2063. The five-day workshop, held in Lusaka, Zambia, was jointly organized by the…

Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province Bishops in synodal interaction with women religious (By Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo)

Mr Mohammed

Author: Discussing Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo of Oyo Catholic Diocese (https://CatholicDioceseOyo.org). The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province of Nigeria, in the spirit of the ongoing synodal process in the Church, have held an interactive session with the Superiors of the Women Religious Congregations working in Ibadan Province.The session, which was held at the close of the second plenary of the bishops of Ibadan Province the statement said, took place at the MM Pastoral Centre, Ilorin on August 12, 2025.  It was intended,as an expression of the ongoing Jubilee Year…

Strategic Alliances Propelling Egypt’s Gold Sector Growth Ahead of African Mining Week (AMW) 2025

Mr Mohammed

Egypt is advancing partnerships with global investors to expand its estimated 7.3 million tons of gold reserves and production capacity an official statement has disclosed in Cape Town,Wednesday. These partnerships,the statement noted, fall under the country’s Vision 2030 strategy to increase the mining sector’s contribution to GDP from the current 1% to 5%. Amidst a target to increase gold production to 800,000 ounces by 2030, it added,the upcoming African Mining Week (AMW) – Africa’s premier gathering for mining stakeholders – will connect global stakeholders with burgeoning prospects within Egypt’s gold…