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Former #Tanzania President Hassan Mwinyi enjoying public transport. He left power without stealing or killing...
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Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheaded bbc.in/4BjDvMw
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City Square redevelopment ready to start โ Investor
Hassan Bulwadda, who is associated with the redevelopment proposal, said financing for the project has been secured and all preparations are in place for implementation. โThe funding for the project has been secured. We have everything in place to undertake this project as soon as we get clearance,โ Bulwadda said.
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#VisionUpdates
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Meet 10 investment banking firms helping bring Dangote Refinery to the stock marketโand the executives leading them.
How many of these names did you know before watching? ๐๐พ
Follow @savvynigerian for the people and stories behind Nigerian business.
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East Africa - The New Frontier of Hope
Ethiopia just earned 3bn US dollars from coffee exports.
Uganda is number two and earned 2.4bn dollars.
Kenya is now Africa's largest producer of cow milk and camel milk combined, overtaking traditional powerhouse Egypt.
Just few clear examples of East Africa's structural strength/resilience in traditional agriculture, how states play to their natural strength (water abundance, good climate) to claw their way up the global market & commodities chain.
It is already happening but Africa can shift from primary single commodity sellers to key players in all stages of the supply and value chains.
Transforming Ethiopia and Uganda into global value-addition hubs for robusta and arabica; Kenya into pre-eminent dairy power (able to manufacturer top quality cheese, powder milk) creates jobs and catalyses industrialisation.
These are the actual stable golds not the wild chase for 'critical minerals'...
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A recent study has demonstrated that continuous exposure to rose essential oil through inhalation can lead to measurable increases in gray matter volume in the human brain.
In this randomized controlled intervention, 50 healthy women participated: 28 in the experimental group applied rose essential oil to their clothing daily for one month, while 22 in the control group used plain water. Before and after the period, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess changes in brain structure. The results indicated a significant increase in gray matter volume (GMV) across the whole brain, with a particularly notable effect in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)โa region involved in memory processing, self-referential thinking, and emotional regulation. No significant changes occurred in areas like the amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex.
The olfactory pathway likely explains this effect: aromatic compounds from the rose oil travel directly to the limbic system, providing sustained stimulation that may promote neuroplasticity and help counteract age-related brain atrophy. The authors suggest this could have implications for dementia prevention, as the PCC is among the regions affected early in conditions like Alzheimer's disease.
This appears to be the first evidence that prolonged scent inhalation can induce structural changes in the adult human brain.
[Kokubun, K., et al. (2024). Continuous inhalation of essential oil increases gray matter volume. Brain Research Bulletin, 208, 110896. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2024.110896]
Communism collapses in Cuba! share.google/aUlcz1bdYYn387Nโฆ
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We're building a Moon Base!
@NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions.
Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where weโll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: go.nasa.gov/4uinkLi
ALT An artist's concept depicting two suited astronauts working on the lunar surface. One is standing next to a surface light, while the other is kneeling; equipment, including rovers and habitations, dot the hilly landscape surrounding them. Credit: NASA
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๐จBREAKING: ANTHROPIC IS GIVING AWAY THE SAME CERTIFICATION THAT DELOITTE IS MASS-TRAINING 15,000 EMPLOYEES TO GET.
It costs $0. You need a laptop. That's it.
It's called the "Claude Certified Architect."
Think of it like the AWS cert but for AI.
If you were around when AWS certs started, you know what happened. They went from "cool to have" to "you're not getting hired without one." That took about 5 years.
This is going to happen way faster.
Look at who's already moving:
Accenture - training 30,000 people on Claude
Cognizant - rolled it out to 350,000 employees
Deloitte - opened Claude access to 470,000 people
Infosys - anchor partner
These aren't startups experimenting. These are billion dollar consulting firms restructuring their entire workforce around Claude.
And the certification they need? You can take it right now from your bedroom.
Let me be real though. This is not one of those "watch 2 videos and get a badge" type certs that nobody respects.
This thing is hard.
60 questions. 2 hours. Proctored. Webcam on. No breaks. No googling.
They drop you into real scenarios like designing a customer support agent that handles refunds or setting up Claude in a CI/CD pipeline. The wrong answers look right on purpose. They're the exact mistakes real engineers make in production.
720 out of 1000 to pass.
People who took it are saying the agentic architecture and multi-agent orchestration sections are brutal.
Most of the exam is about building AI systems that actually work in the real world. Not prompting. Not chatting with Claude. Architecting production systems.
All the prep? Free. Anthropic put out 13 courses on their Academy. No paywall. The cert itself is free for the first 5,000 people. After that $99 per attempt.
How to get it:
1. Join the Claude Partner Network (free) โ partnerportal.anthropic.com
2. Start the free prep courses โ anthropic.com/learn
3. Register for the exam โ anthropic.skilljar.com
4. Take the official practice exam
5. Book the real one when you're ready
It launched 10 days ago. Almost nobody has it yet.
That's the whole point. Get it before it becomes the thing everyone has.
Licensed Pharmacist Exposes ANIMAL medication SCAM youtube.com/shorts/BCwfMAQiqโฆ via @YouTube
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Mexico on Fire. If the government fails to crash these thugs now, then the Nation will remain a time bomb.
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๐จTrump Is Rewiring OPEC From the Inside
๐ฐExxon & Chevron Are the Main Beneficiaries
Trump is reshaping who controls the next decade of oil supply
Not by pumping more US shale
By reopening #OPEC-linked barrels to US majors.
Hereโs the play:
โข ๐ป๐ช #Venezuela
After Maduroโs removal, Washington is steering exports and pushing $50โ100bn of potential reinvestment.
โข ๐ฎ๐ท #Iran pressure
Tariffs and military signaling are forcing buyers to rotate away from Tehran.
โข ๐ท๐บ#Russia
Sanctions
At the same time, the White House is backing ExxonMobil and Chevron in negotiations across:
โข ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq
โข ๐ฑ๐พ Libya
โข ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria
โข ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan
โข ๐ฆ๐ฟ Azerbaijan
The offer is simple: capital + security + diplomatic cover in exchange for alignment with Washington.
If even a fraction of the $100bn in Venezuela and new deals across Iraq and Africa materialise, more OPEC-linked supply will sit under US contracts and US security umbrellas.
That shifts:
โข who controls marginal barrels
โข who influences spare capacity
โข and ultimately who shapes price formation
For Exxon and #Chevron shareholders, this is a geopolitical growth option layered on top of disciplined capital returns.
#oott
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Shell plans to bring Venezuelaโs Dragon gas field online within 3 years and route gas to Trinidad & Tobago for LNG exports, CEO Wael Sawan said.
Trinidadโs Atlantic LNG has been constrained by gas shortages
Dragon gas could restore LNG and petrochemical throughput
Project hinges on US licences, sanctions, and cross-border approvals
Signals Shellโs selective return to high-impact upstream gas
This isnโt just new supply. Itโs energy optionality for Trinidad and a geopolitical test case for sanctioned gas.
If approvals come through, does Trinidad reclaim its role as a Caribbean LNG hub?
#oott #natgas #Venezuela #TrinidadandTobago
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๐ Africa Is Where the Big Oil Bets Are in 2026
๐น Most of the activity is ultra-deepwater (1,500m+)
๐น Far fewer onshore or shallow projects
๐น Capital is chasing scale, geology, and upside, not convenience
When companies want material growth, they still drill deep. And right now, they drill deep in Africa.
The opportunity?
One company with the World's largest fleet, huge backlog (2+ years locked) and trading 6x below asset value.
You can find the link for the full article here ๐
themerchantsnews.substack.coโฆ
#oott #Africa
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In just two years under President Ibrahim Traorรฉ's leadership in Burkina Faso:
1. The country's GDP rose from around $18.8 billion to $22.1 billion.
2. He turned down loans from the IMF and World Bank, declaring: โAfrica has no need for the World Bank, IMF, Europe, or America.โ
3. He cut ministers' and parliamentarians' salaries by 30% while raising civil servants' pay by 50%.
4. He fully cleared Burkina Fasoโs domestic debts.
5. He launched the countryโs first two tomato processing plants.
6. In 2023, he opened a modern gold mine to boost local refining capacity.
7. He ended the export of unprocessed gold from Burkina Faso to Europe.
8. He constructed Burkina Fasoโs second cotton processing facility (the country previously had just one).
9. He established the nationโs first National Support Center for Artisanal Cotton Processing to help small-scale cotton farmers.
10. He prohibited British-style legal wigs and gowns in courts, replacing them with traditional Burkinabรฉ clothing.
11. He supported agriculture by distributing more than 400 tractors, 239 tillers, 710 motor pumps, and 714 motorcycles to farmers and rural communities.
12. He supplied improved seeds and essential agricultural inputs to increase yields.
13. Tomato output grew from 315,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 360,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
14. Millet production climbed from 907,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 1.1 million metric tonnes in 2024.
15. Rice production rose from 280,000 metric tonnes in 2022 to 326,000 metric tonnes in 2024.
16. He banned French military operations on Burkinabรฉ soil.
17. He prohibited French media outlets from operating in Burkina Faso.
18. He expelled French troops from the country.
19. His administration is actively building new roads, expanding existing ones, and upgrading gravel roads to paved surfaces.
20. Construction is underway on the new Ouagadougou-Donsin Airport, set for completion in 2025, with an annual capacity of 1 million passengers.
