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Namibia Draws a Line as Starlink Faces Fresh Regulatory Roadblock
Southern African nation reinforces local ownership rules, delaying Elon Musk’s satellite internet ambitions and highlighting a broader debate over foreign investment in Africa’s telecom sector.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Are Electric Car Batteries as Dirty as Critics Claim?
Claims that electric vehicle batteries are tainted by exploitative mineral supply chains are discrediting non-fossil cars as electrified road transport booms.
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- Global
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World Bank Backs Cambodia’s $115-Million Clean Energy Push, Flags Environmental Risks
The program will be implemented nationwide, covering both urban and rural areas, including Phnom Penh and the eastern provinces.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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Analysis: ‘Who Is Going to Pay Us When We’re Replaced by Robots?’ The Indian Factory Workers Told to Film Themselves for AI
First-person recordings of human movements and interactions are called egocentric data and are vital for training robots that might one day replace humans on the production line.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Africa’s Green Transition to Create Up to 84 Million Jobs by 2050 but It Risks Embedding Inequality Without Urgent Action
Africa’s green transition could generate up to 84.5 million jobs by 2050 but without concerted policy action the benefits risk entrenching inequality rather than reducing it.
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- Energy, Technology
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Press Release: United States Announces More Than $1 Billion in Assistance to UNICEF and World Food Program to Address Global Humanitarian Needs
The more than $218 million in assistance to UNICEF and more than $800 million to WFP announced today are the second and third in a series of global State Department awards to trusted and vetted implementing organizations.
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2026 Coffee Barometer: Sustainability Cannot be Built on Permanently Cheap Coffee
The newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer exposes systemic flaws in the global coffee industry over the past 20 years.
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- Agriculture
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We Economists Have Done the Maths: ‘Growth’ Is a Doomed Strategy – There Is a Better Way
For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept.
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