Joining the YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022. An article by Sofonie Dala

  The YouthConnekt Africa Summit 2022 Concluded

Hello World!

Welcome Everyone To Our Summit!

Thousands of African youth left the just concluded YouthConnekt Africa 2022 Summit (YCAS) in Kigali, Rwanda with their heads held high, after three-days of discussions and assurances from world leaders and experts on how they can lead Africa’s development efforts. The summit brought together over 10,000 youth delegates representing 98 countries from across Africa and beyond.

“Don’t believe the story that you’re the leaders of tomorrow. Be the leaders of today.”

The digital entrepreneur Sofonie Dala also had the privilege of attending the summit during these 3 fantastic days. She was eager to harness continental opportunities and actively contribute to Africa’s socio-economic transformation.

A little piece of the event

“Young people don't have access to funding they need to run their business. Sometimes for those young people their dreams remain a hobby. Africa’s prosperity needs supercharging with youth as an engine for growth.”

The President of the Republic of Rwanda Paul Kagame opened the largest at BK Arena gathering thousands of young Africans and delegates from other continents and was joined by Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of Kenya for an interaction with over 9,000 youth from across the continent.

About YouthConnekt Africa

YouthConnekt Africa is a continental initiative with the mission to empower young people by enhancing their knowledge, experiences and skills while investing in their ideas, innovations and initiatives to harness Africa’s demographic dividend which aims at contributing to the achievement of Africa’s SDGs mandate, the AU 2063 agenda, and AU Youth Charter.

It was initiated in 2012 by the Government of Rwanda in partnership with the UNDP and is a multifaceted youth empowerment model focused on leveraging youth employability, entrepreneurship and civic engagement through innovation.

In the next few days, we will be posting more content about the 3 days of the summit. Stay tuned on our platform, don't miss out!

Kwasi Kwarteng fired after just 38 days as Chancellor of the Exchequer

 THIS JUST IN – Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired Kwasi Kwarteng as speculated earlier.

Mr Kwarteng’s downfall was set in motion by the mini-budget on 23 September, in which he announced £45bn in unfunded tax cuts.

The mini-budget pushed the pound to a record low against the dollar, sent the cost of government borrowing and mortgage rates up and led to an unprecedented intervention by the Bank of England.

Ms Truss and Mr Kwarteng insisted that the turbulence in the UK economy was part of a global problem exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and post-pandemic recovery.

But last week, after open revolt by Tory MPs and a record surge for Labour in the polls, the prime minister announced the first major reversal of mini-budget policies when she backtracked on scrapping the 45p top rate of income tax.

The second U-turn came on Friday morning when the government said it would raise corporation tax from 19% to 25% next April, despite promising not to do so in the mini-budget.

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BURKINA FASO – Chaos brewing as transition process threatened with demonstrations

THIS JUST IN – Young Burkinabe leader Captain Ibrahim Traore wants to return to the barracks after his coup d’etat last month that removed another coupster Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

After famously declaring that a soldier’s place is in the barracks and not at the presidential palace on October 2, and yet still officially appointed president on October 6, the young Captain insisted on going forward with a transitional charter that would appoint another person to lead the country through the transitional process.

The plan is that, after the transitional charter has been launched on Friday October 14, it would lead to the designation of a new leader to head the transitional process towards the next presidential elections.

    

But yesterday, on the eve of the launching of the transitional charter, the youth hit the streets of capital Ouagadougou and the southwestern city of Bobo-Dioulasso demanding that the transitional process be aborted to allow the young Captain to remain the leader of the Sahel country.

This morning, the demonstration has continued with the youth this time unsuccessfully attacking the conference center where the proceedings were taking place to enact the transitional charter.

The police has for the moment succeeded in stopping the attack on the conference center to stop the process. But DNT’s man on the ground Jiluis Ouya reports that no one knows how this will end.

Stay tuned for updates on the situation in Ouagadougou.

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Zanzibar swimming crabs deaths being investigated

 Zanzibar’s government is investigating why thousands of dead swimming crabs have washed up on the beaches of the Tanzanian islands.

Since 28 September, there have been reports of the dead crabs washing ashore at Mtoni, Mizingani and Forodhani public beaches.

The government is urging people not to worry it might be caused by pollution.

Reports indicate climate change leading to an abrupt change in the temperature of the sea might be to blame.

“Some living things like the swimming crabs cannot resist sudden changes in the sea, and they die and wash ashore,” Dr Salum Soud, a marine biologist and Zanzibar’s director of development and fisheries, he said.

“Ocean waters have layers of temperatures and so the waves force water underneath to go up, thus may cause low oxygen hence the crabs are likely to face death,” he added.

The mass deaths of the crabs is not an isolated incident, according to Sheha Mjaja Juma, Director General of the Zanzibar Environment Management Authority (Zema), who told Tanzania’s the citizen paper it had also happened in Seychelles.

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Pelosi about Trump: “I’m gonna punch him out, go to jail, and be happy”

 New remarkable, previously unseen video of events during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol showed an irate House Leader Nancy Pelosi vowing to “punch” Trump out if he made his way to “trespass on the Capitol grounds.”

The new video further shows how, for a brief moment, legislators on both sides of the political divide displayed uncommon comradery and genuine care for each other when their collective lives were under attack by the Trump crowd that had invaded the United States Capitol.

Pelosi was seen expressing what appeared to be genuine concern to Vice President Mike Pence with whom she had previously bantered over policy.

Meanwhile Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was seen in a huddle with Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer where he urged the acting Secretary of Defense to mobilize security to get to the Capitol “in one bit of a hurry, understand?”

Senate and House leaders on both sides put partisanship aside and worked remarkably well to reconvene to certify the election results that sealed the fate of President Trump and his efforts to overturn the election results.

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MPLA praises Angolan Executive for the launch of Angosat-2

 Caxito – The Provincial Committee of the ruling MPLA party in the northern Bengo province praised Thursday the Angolan Executive for the launch of ANGOSAT-2, which it says will boost technologies and increase the country's recognition at home and abroad.

The praise is expressed in the final communiqué of the 2nd extraordinary session of the MPLA provincial committee in Bengo, chaired by the second party secretary, João Mpilamosi.

The meeting was meant to arrange the 7th extraordinary provincial conference on the 25th of this month.

The governor of the province of Bengo, Maria Antónia Nelumba, was presented to the members of the provincial committee as a candidate for the position of first provincial secretary of the MPLA in Bengo.

The plenary unanimously approved the candidacy of Maria Antónia Nelumba, the report on the current state of organisation and functioning of the provincial committee.

The participants also took note of the participation of the MPLA in the elections on 24 August.

Addressing a closing ceremony, the second provincial secretary, João Mpilamosi, said the holding of the VII extraordinary conference aims to guarantee the fulfillment of the resolution of the Political Bureau, in the sense of electing the new first provincial secretary.

ANGOSAT-2 has a transmission capacity seven times greater than that of ANGOSAT-1, which had 16 C-Band and six KU-Band relays.

With 15 years lifespan, the Angopst-2 also has six “transponders” in the C band, 24 in the KU bank and, as a novelty, a retransmitter in the KA band.

It is a high transmission rate (HTS) satellite, with a total weight of two tons, prepared to deliver 13 gigabytes in each illuminated region (satellite signal range areas). The same will be based on the Eurostar-3000 platform.

Construction of Angosat-2 began on April 28, 2018, at Airbus facilities in France, where the full satellite payload was installed.

The structure was then transferred to the Reshetnev ISS plant in the "closed" city of Zheleznogorsk, near Krasnoyarsk, in the Siberia region, where the carcass was produced and the starting mechanism installed.

This was followed by the transfer to the launch site of the Baikonur Aerospace Station in Kazakhstan, where it was launch into space orbit on Wednesday.

The new satellite arises in the strategy of the Angolan Government to reduce digital exclusion in the country, in particular, and in Africa, in general, allowing the expansion of telecommunications services to the most remote areas at competitive prices.

The satellite, which holds a number of services, has the capacity to cover the African continent, with emphasis on the southern region, and a significant part of southern Europe.

It arose with the mission to replace Angosat-1, the first Angolan satellite, launched into orbit on December 26, 2017, which faced space problems.

During the launch, there was a main loss of contact due to a power subsystem failure shortly after orbit, although communications were recovered, and subsequent problems with satellite power.

The artifact had been launched into orbit via Ukrainian carrier Zenit from the Baikonu Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian Federation.

Built following an agreement signed between Angola and Russia in 2009, Angosat-1 cost 360 million dollars to the coffers of the Angolan State.

The satellite had $120 million in insurance, which covered about 90% of its zero replacement in the event of destruction or eventual disappearance.

UN reaffirms cooperation for sustainable development

 Luanda – The United Nations system in Angola reaffirmed Thursday its commitment to cooperate with the Angolan Executive in the implementation of the 2030 agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The information was provided by the resident coordinator of the United Nations system in Angola, Zahira Virani, who was speaking at the end of a meeting with the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança Costa.

The 2020 Agenda is a universal plan based on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets to be implemented by all countries, aimed at eradicating poverty and promoting economic, social and environmental development on a global scale.

The senior UN official said that next year she would work with the Angolan government to prepare a cooperation framework that meets Angola's development needs.

The official also recalled that several UN agencies work to guarantee the millennium development goals, in areas such as health, education, drought and climate change.

Zahira Virani stated that it was a first meeting with Esperança Costa that gives her joy and pride, as a woman in the position of Vice-President of the Republic.