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African Energy Chamber

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    • Kosmos Energy Returns to African Energy Week: Invest in African Energy 2024 as a Diamond Sponsor
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Kosmos Energy Returns to African Energy Week: Invest in African Energy 2024 as a Diamond Sponsor

Kosmos Energy's participation in this year's AEW: Invest in African Energy marks its third consecutive year of participating, with the company advocating for inclusive strategies regarding Africa's pathway to eliminating energy poverty

Africa's abundant hydrocarbon reserves, comprising approximately 125.3 billion barrels of crude oil and 620 trillion cubic feet of proven gas, offer lucrative investment opportunities for global E&P players and serve as a cornerstone for achieving the continent's industrialization objectives. As African nations collaborate with global E&P firms possessing both financial…

The Government of Norway
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Norway to establish embassy in Senegal

The new Embassy will be responsible for Norway’s diplomatic relations with Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad, where Norway does not have any foreign service missions

Norway will open an embassy in Dakar in the autumn of 2024. The mission will also be responsible for several other countries in West Africa. This is the first time Norway has established an embassy in Senegal. In addition to Senegal the new Embassy will be responsible for Norway’s diplomatic…

Energy Capital & Power

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MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power Returns to Dakar in December 2024

The conference takes place on December 3-4 in partnership with Petrosen, COS-Petrogaz and the African Energy Chamber

The MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2024 conference and exhibition – a regionally-focused event dedicated to the energy success of Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry – returns to Dakar for its fourth edition on December 3-4 this year. In collaboration with the MSGBC member-countries’ respective energy ministries, this…

International Trade Centre
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10 Senegal tech firms visit Guinea to find new prospects

Thanks to the Netherlands Trust Fund V (NTF V) project at the International Trade Centre (ITC), a dozen small Senegalese tech companies traveled to Conakry from 20-24 November to seize new business opportunities

The NTF V Senegal Tech project at ITC led a delegation of 10 digital services companies on a mission to discover the Guinean market. A launching pad to Guinea One of the most effective ways of getting started in exporting is through a business trip, to better understand a target…

Human Rights Watch (HRW)
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Senegal: Human Rights Agenda for President Faye

Prioritize Fundamental Rights and Freedoms

Senegal’s newly elected president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, should make protecting and promoting human rights a priority during his presidency, both within Senegal and regionally, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the president made public today. Human Rights Watch outlined five key recommendations to improve human rights in Senegal, urging Faye, during his…

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
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Ghanaian and Senegalese entrepreneurs to benefit from African Development Bank Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund (YEI MDTF) grant for green jobs in natural resources

The target reach group includes women, youth and people with disabilities/special needs, engaged in managing natural resource sectors such as agroforestry, fisheries and biodiversity

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), through its Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation Multi-Donor Trust Fund (YEI MDTF) (https://apo-opa.co/3J81Cnx), has approved a $999,000 grant to support an initiative to foster green jobs for women, youth and people with disabilities. The Strengthening Women, Youth and People with Disabilities’ Micro-Entrepreneurship for Green Jobs (https://apo-opa.co/3U9MFqb) in…

Mercy Ships

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Stepping into a Brighter Future, Boy's Life Transformed by Charity Operation on Bowed Legs

A five-year-old soccer fan whose legs started to bow from the age of two can run and play with friends without pain after his life was transformed by a surgical charity.

Malang from Senegal had been to multiple hospitals in his home country in search of medical help without success. “It was tough for him to walk. I was very sad when I saw Malang walking like that,” his father Sadio recalled. “Sometimes his friends would run and leave him behind,…

Kingdom of Morocco - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates
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His Majesty The King Congratulates Senegalese President on National Day

The Sovereign expressed, with all the Moroccan people, to Bassirou His warmest wishes for the happiness and prosperity of the Senegalese people

His Majesty King Mohammed VI sent a message of congratulations to president of the Republic of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on the occasion of his country's National Day. In this message, the Sovereign expressed, with all the Moroccan people, to Bassirou His warmest wishes for the happiness and prosperity of…

International Trade Centre

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Hermione Awounou wants to feed Senegal with local, healthy snacks

In Senegal, under the Netherlands Trust Fund V programme, the Alliances for Action sustainable agribusiness initiative at the International Trade Centre (ITC) is working with cashew businesses to grow their operations sustainably

Hermione’s business ACASEN works with ITC’s Alliances for Action to promote ‘made in Senegal’ cashew products. She’s part of a trend that’s moving Africa away from exporting only raw commodities. A wave of finished products touting the catch phrase ‘made in Africa’ is on the rise, as the world recognizes…

State House Sierra Leone
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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio Joins Colleague Heads of State at the Swearing-in Ceremony of Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye

President Faye called for national cohesion and promised to unite the country among ethnic and religious bodies

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has joined more than fifteen African Heads of State and Government, other leaders to grace the swearing-in ceremony of His Excellency Bassirou Diomaye Faye, President of the Republic of Senegal. President of the Constitutional Council of Senegal, Mamadou Badio Camara, while leading the…