IBM Great Minds initiative Research Internship Program 2020 for young Africans

Do not miss this opportunity. Apply now! 

Application Deadline: unspecified 

The Great Minds initiative is a competition for 3 to 6-month internships at one of the IBM Research Labs in Zurich, Nairobi, or Johannesburg for students from central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It provides students with the unique opportunity to work alongside world-class scientists in the leading industrial IT research organization.

The internships will take place in 2020. The exact starting time and duration will be agreed upon with the winning students individually, taking into account their academic commitments and the availability of IBM staff.

IBM will pay the winners a lump sum towards travel expenses as well as compensation that covers adequately the cost of living in Switzerland, Kenya, or South Africa, respectively. IBM will also obtain the necessary visa and work permits for the successful candidates.

IBM Research has been conducting the Great Minds internships for more than a decade. This program also benefits Universities when the Great Minds winners bring back a valuable understanding of real industry problems, knowledge of advanced IBM technologies, and contacts throughout IBM Research.

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Covid-19: Angola records 27 new positive cases and 44 recovered

Twenty-seven positive cases and 44 recovered from covid-19 is the country's record in the last 24 hours, involving ten men and 17 women, without any death notification.

Franco Mufinda, State Secretary for Public Health, said that Angola has not reported any death for the past 24 hours. 

Among those infected are three Benguela city dwellers, who imported the case from Luanda, with the remaining 24 inhabitants of the country's capital, the secretary of state for public health said today.

Briefing on the pandemic development in the country, Franco Mufinda pointed out that the cases of Luanda, were registered in Viana, Talatona, Belas, Ingombotas and Samba.

The ages, said the member of the Multi-sectoral Commission, vary between 1 and 66 years. Thus, Angola now has 1,879 positive cases, 86 deaths, 628 recovered and 1,165 active patients.

RNA journalist wins SADC 2020 Award

Luanda - Angolan journalist Aristides Kito, of Rádio Nacional de Angola, won this Saturday the Radio category of the SADC Journalism Prize (main), 2020.

SADC journalism award winners

The professional competed with a report on the Cuito Cuanavale Statue, as a world heritage site in Angola, which, according to the jury, may "promote the integration and development of SADC", a regional organization in Southern Africa.

With this distinction, the journalist will receive a prize of USD 2,500 (two thousand and five hundred US dollars).

Besides the journalist, the prize was awarded to the photographer Santos Pedro, from Edições Novembro, in the second prize, in the category of Photography.

The photographer competed with photographs that highlight the regional unity during the celebration of the Southern Africa Liberation Day (23 March), being entitled to USD 1000 (one thousand US dollars).

Meanwhile, still in the main prize class, television category, the prize went to the Malawian journalist Ananiya Ponje, while the print one got the Zimbabwean Prosper Ndlovo, and the photography one with Godfrey Mpuse, from Botswana, all entitled to USD 2,500 (two thousand and five hundred US dollars).

In the second prize, the television category was won by the Zambian journalist Pennipher Vida Sikainda-Nyirenda.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Journalism Competition was established in 1996 in recognition of the journalistic work of professionals in the region.

THE AFRICA WE WANT

When we talk about Africa.

I ask...

Why have we travelled for years, yet not far?

Why have we survived the storms, yet not better?

If all Colonialism brought was bad, we have the right to drop,

If what they brought was good, we have the right to keep,

If they brought the good and the bad, we have the right to choose.

We want to see the Africa Dr Kwameh Nkrumah envisioned,

The Africa Thomas Sankara saw,

The Africa Pa Nelson Madiba Mandela dreamt of.

We want a REAL UNITED Africa of brotherhood.

The Africa the Europe saw in that "Ship"

Different tribes, languages, countries, but in all they saw "One People"

We have come a long way

We have heard enough

We have had enough

Why do we still bring Pains upon ourselves,

Killings, Wars, Genocides, Xenophobia

And I ask, how better has any of these made us?

"If we share the little we have have, with Love, it will be enough, we don't have little, we have enough, but hatred shared it to us little"

Is it safe now to say those things are in the past?

Dear African Youths, Elders needs us to Stand,

Dear African Youths, the Young needs us to Climb.

Standing and Climbing needs a strong foundation,

we are that Foundation.

We are the generation to decide the fate of Africa.

If we don't change Africa, posterity will hold us responsible.

If we don't change Africa, destiny will call us irresponsible.

If we wake up today, to the future of Africa, it is not too late to say good morning.

It is better not to have lived, than live without a Legacy.

We want the Africa of Innovations

Africa of Inventions

Africa of Solutions 

We want the Africa that works.

...dedicated to all the African Youths.