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MENA Digest: Libya’s Mataa, Saudi firm Calo, Jordan’s Olivery get funding
VC Circle
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Credit: 123RF.com Saudi Arabia-headquartered foodtech platform Calo, which plans to go public in 2027, led funding activity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region this week. The company raised an eight-digit Series B extension round,...
Minister of Oil and Gas discusses with Japanese Ambassador strengthening cooperation and attracting Japanese companies to Libya’s energy sector
Libya Herald
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July 31, 2025
Within the framework of strengthening bilateral cooperation relations between Libya and Japan, Libya’s Tripoli based Acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Khalifa Abdel Sadig, received, yesterday, the Ambassador of Japan to Libya, Shimura Izuru, in the...
A Groundbreaking Study By AUC Researchers Links Rising Temperatures to Increased Women’s Cancer Mortality
Sada Elbalad
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July 31, 2025
Thu 31 Jul 2025 | 11:26 AM A new study conducted at the Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology (IGHHE) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) found a significant connection between rising temperatures and death rates from women’s cancers...
Nokia provides optical technology for new subsea cable
TahawulTech
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July 30, 2025
The Medusa subsea cable system, an infrastructure project designed to boost AI, 5G and cloud connectivity in Europe and North Africa, is set to receive optical technology from Nokia. As part of the agreement, Nokia will supply key optical network...
African militaries eye lighter, cheaper drones
The Standard
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Ethiopian soldiers attend a drone piloting training program at an aviation school in Beijing. [Xing Guangli, AFP] Aerial warfare in Africa is trending lighter and nimbler -- and increasingly single-use. Hulking, fixed-wing military drones were...
Sonatrach, Libyan NOC Pen Collaboration Agreements
Rigzone
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July 29, 2025
Algerian state-owned oil company Sonatrach has signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC). The agreements aim to enhance cooperation in petroleum operations and services, training and...
World News in Brief: remember Dr. David Nabarro, fatal shipwreck off Libya, verdict in the murder of the helmet
The European Times
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July 30, 2025
The British doctor and champion of global public health died last weekend at the age of 75. He was the World Health Organization (WHO) Special envoy dealing with COVID 19 crisis. Service inheritance “The secretary general pays tribute to the...
Farewell to MiG-21: India bids adieu to its historic jet fighter
The Times of India
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August 26, 2025
Introduction After more than six decades of service, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has begun its final farewell to the iconic MiG-21 fighter jet- an aircraft as celebrated as it was controversial. Known colloquially as the “Flying Coffin” due to its...
World News in Brief: Remembering Dr. David Nabarro, deadly shipwreck off Libya, verdict in peacekeeper’s killing
UN News
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July 29, 2025
The British physician and champion for global public health died this past weekend at the age of 75. He was the World Health Organization’s (WHO) special envoy dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Legacy of service “The Secretary-General pays tribute...
Energy Transitions in the Gulf: Realities, Risks, and the Road Ahead
Observer Research Foundation
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Introduction: Transition Turbulence Energy transition globally, which seemed unstoppable only a few years ago, has run into unexpected turbulence caused by rising costs, high-profile corporate failures, and an abrupt shift in American political...
Coconut, Tea, Tech Exports Drive Sri Lanka’s Export Boom
Lanka News Web
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July 29, 2025
Sri Lanka’s export sector has shown strong resilience and steady recovery in the first half of 2025, achieving a total export value of US$ 8.34 billion, reflecting a 6.7% growth compared to the same period last year, according to the Export...
EUBAM donates ten advanced handheld X-ray scanners to Narcotics Control Agency and Libyan Customs Authority
Libya Herald
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July 28, 2025
EUBAM Libya reported today that, as part of its continued support to Libyan law enforcement agencies, it recently donated ten advanced handheld X-ray scanners, five each to the Narcotics and Psychotropic Drugs Control Agency and the Libyan Customs...
India resets Libya priority: Security forces return to embassy, eyes on oil and strategic depth
Firstpost
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July 28, 2025
India’s decision to deploy security forces at its embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, appears as a calculated strategic move, far beyond a simple signal amid a still chaotic situation in the North African nation. The embassy was reopened in...
The Prestige of French Intellectuals
Church Life Journal - Indiana
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August 26, 2025
The prestige of the French intellectual begins at the very moment in which the prestige of the clergy fades. It is a matter of a substitution. It was during the eighteenth century that the power of people who think, those who played no small part...
No shortcuts, your story is only as good as research that goes into it
Media Observer
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July 28, 2025
Let’s talk about food. Dr Kefa Bosire, a pharmacist, wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Nairobi a decade ago on chinsaga (saga, sageti, akeyo/dek or what mzungus call the spider plant). It is the queen of vegetables in Bosire’s community,...
Armoured vehicles from Canadian-owned company deployed in Sudan’s war zones
The Globe and Mail
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August 26, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Screenshot of a video showing Rapid Support Forces fighters using a Streit Spartan armoured vehicle during their assault on El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, which has been under an RSF siege for more than a year....
Remittances as development finance: Africa’s overlooked billions
Institute for Security Studies
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Remittances as development finance: Africa’s overlooked billions Other global south economies provide valuable lessons on successfully transforming remittance flows into broad-based growth. Published on 26 August 2025 in ISS Today By Julia Baum...
Breaking News: Baykar's TB2T-AI Reaches 40000 ft Record Creating A New High Ceiling MALE Drone Class
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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On August 24, 2025, Baykar Technologies announced through its official channels that the Bayraktar TB2T-AI unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) had reached an altitude of 40,023 feet during High Altitude System Identification and Performance...
S&P Global Commodity Insights Joins African Energy Week (AEW) 2025 As Emerald Partner, Bringing Strategic Energy Intelligence To Help Drive Africa's Energy Future
MENAFN
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August 26, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) S&P Global Commodity Insights, the leading independent provider of information, analytics and benchmark prices for the commodities, energy and energy transition markets, and a division of S&P Global, has joined the...
From the streets of Baghdad, I saw a clear line to the bloodshed in Gaza
The Guardian
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August 26, 2025
“You destroyed Iraq.” I had to wait for my companion, the Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, to translate these words, but the thunderous look on this middle-aged man’s face already told its own story. We were standing on Haifa Street, one of...