The Moroccan blueberry industry has not given up on its goal of reaching 100,000 tons of production and offering a year-round supply. This shows not only its consolidation, but also its desire to become a major player in the international blueberry market. The blueberry season currently starts in October and lasts until June, although with the new genetics this period is going to be extended." 28th International Berry Seminar Morocco 2023 / photo: Blueberries Consulting. 28th International Berry Seminar Morocco 2023 / photo: Blueberries Consulting.

What venues will be used for Paris 2024? There are three main areas that will host events during Paris 2024: the Paris Area, the Île-de-France Area, and the rest of France. Paris AreaThere are 13 venues in the Paris Area. Additionally, the Yves-du-Manoir Olympic Stadium northwest of Paris – which hosted the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 1924 Games a century ago and will welcome hockey matches this year – is also in this area. Most notably, the famous wave at Teahupo‘o, Tahiti, holds the surfing events in the first week of the schedule.

inq., a Convergence Partners company, is providing Mimecast with the services needed to peer at NAPAfrica in Teraco Isando, thereby enabling reliable routing and the free exchange of traffic with Africa’s largest Internet exchange community. As Africa’s leading Edge solutions provider, the company continues to invest and expand its footprints on the continent. “We are excited to be part of Mimecast’s journey by creating peering capability at NAPAfrica. Located within Teraco, a Digital Realty Company’s data centre facilities in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, NAPAfrica is the continent’s largest Internet aggregation point. The NAPAfrica peering point allows multiple enterprises, network operators, CDNs, and cloud services providers to peer locally, keeping African traffic within Africa.

Tunisia in late 2023 published its first national green hydrogen strategy. This envisaged output of 8.3mn t/y by 2050 with some 6.3mn t/y to be exported to Europe. Whilst this is highly ambitious, recent MoUs with two international energy giants – TotalEnergies of France and Acwa Power of Saudi Arabia – raise the prospect of achieving initial output and exports by early next decade, the same timeframe as that given by Italian, German and Austrian grid operators for their ‘SoutH2 corridor’ plans to pipe green hydrogen from North Africa to Europe. (CONTINUED - 2040 WORDS)

Nearly 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation in war-torn Sudan, where the conflict between rival army factions aggravates the humanitarian situation, the global authority on famine said. The unreliability of data due to the crumbling health system and the ongoing clashes prevent aid workers from reaching hard-hit areas. UN and international NGOs have previously urged action to prevent famine in Sudan since December. Some 2 million people have crossed the border to flee the ongoing civil war between the paramilitary RSF and the army, UNHCR said. The UN said it has received only 17% of the 2.7 billion dollars needed to address the humanitarian situation in the country.

From climate finance to national delegations, female voices are underrepresented in climate negotiations and conventions, further jeopardising a just transition

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Digital Twins in Healthcare Market, Industry Trends and Global Forecasts, till 2035 - Distribution by Therapeutic Area, Type of Digital Twin, Areas of Application, End Users and Key Geographical Regions" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global digital twins in healthcare market is estimated to grow from $1.9 billion in 2024 to $33.4 billion in 2035, growing at a CAGR of 30% during the forecast period from 2024 to 2035. Further, around 50% of the digital twins are intended for asset / process management applications; however, a shift towards the digital twins intended to offer personalized treatment is being observed. Based on the research, the analyst observed that majority of the digital twin companies use artificial intelligence in their solutions. The current digital twins in healthcare market landscape features the presence of over 75 players that have the required expertise to develop and manufacture digital twin solutions for healthcare applications.

LOS ANGELES – June 27, 2024 – The Premier Lacrosse League powered by Ticketmaster today announced it will expand international availability of live game telecasts and content globally through FAST channel distribution, in addition to ESPN platforms’ international reach. “Lacrosse fans globally now have more ways to watch the best players in the world compete in the PLL,” said Mike Rabil, Co-Founder and CEO of the Premier Lacrosse League. “Our work with ESPN has helped us bring lacrosse to more sports fans than ever before. The PLL is distributed through an exclusive media rights agreement with ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN+. For more on the league, visit www.premierlacrosseleague.com and follow on social media: Instagram (@PLL), Twitter (@PremierLacrosse), Facebook (@PremierLacrosseLeague), YouTube (YouTube.com/PLL) and TikTok (@pll).

Despite these harsh measures, South Korea culture continues to influence North Korea. South Korea has said that in 2022, a 22-year-old man was publicly executed by North Korea for sharing and listening to K-pop music and South Korean films. The information is taken from testimonials of North Korean defectors that were published in a human rights report by the South Korean ministry of unification. This law is seen as a tool to shield citizens from Western influences, which the North Korean government considers detrimental. North Korea has consistently denied accusations of human rights violations, calling them attempts to undermine its leadership.

Hotels wishing to apply could receive up to 100 million dirhams ($10 million) in loans, whose interests will be paid by the state, the ministry said in a statement. The program dubbed, Cap Hospitality, is backed by the Mohammed VI Investment fund and is expected to generate investments worth 4 billion dirhams, it said. Morocco’s tourism sector is poised to outperform last year’s record with the arrival of 6 million tourists in the five months this year, tourism minister Fatima Ezzahra Ammour said earlier this month. Morocco has a tourism promotion roadmap that aims to invest 6.1 billion dirhams to attract 17.5 million tourists in 2026 and 26 million tourists by 2030. In two years, the sector should be able to generate revenue worth 120 billion dirhams in hard currency, the Moroccan official said.

For every step forward Morocco makes to foster ties with the Sahel, Algeria makes a step backwards, says an analysis published by the Washington-based Wilson Center. In contrast, Algeria had more self-serving foreign policy goals in dealing with the Sahel centered on gathering support for the Polisario separatists and their anachronistic agenda, leading Algiers to self-isolation as it pursues a chimera of a Maghreb union without Morocco, the analyst said. “Looking into the future, as the African continent moves towards greater economic pragmatism and sheds ideological relics of the past, Algeria is on a path of further isolation, making it unable to promote or benefit from regional integration,” she said. After highlighting the long presence by Morocco’s major banks and companies in the Sahel, El Yaaqoubi pointed to the relevance of the Atlantic initiative, launched by Morocco’s King, to help landlocked Sahel countries access maritime global trade and promote regional integration. She said the initiative cements a Moroccan “pragmatic” approach to its ties with the Sahel, as Rabat also sees to further boost influence through regional integration energy projects, including the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline.

North Africa has been enjoying the best visa acceptance rates, while Central Africa was seeing the worst. Photo: PexelsAccess Denied: Unveiling Disparities in study permit approvals for African students in Canada stressed that while Canada is a globally preferred destination, in 2018-2023 consistent disparities in study permit application acceptances were obvious and is putting up “barriers” for African students. A table within the report revealed African students were seeing an average acceptance rate of less than 50% – while acceptance rates for students from the rest of the world never dipped below 75%. African students saw an average acceptance rate of 47% in 2023, but no figures for those on the SDS were given. The issue of visa acceptance rates for Africans has been contentious for some time.

North Texas Fintech Triples Down in India, Boosting AI and Innovation Lab Efforts Plano-based Trintech, which saw 20% year-over-year growth in Q1 bookings, announced its AI-focused Innovation Lab in May. This move comes amid strong growth and just weeks after the launch of Trintech’s Innovation Lab at its North Texas headquarters. The Bengaluru facility, joining existing operations in Noida and Pune, will support Trintech’s Innovation Lab. The Bengaluru facility will play a key role in supporting Trintech’s Innovation Lab, the company said. Dwivedi will develop the Bengaluru center, enhancing the capabilities of Trintech’s Innovation Lab, which aims to innovate for the “office of the CFO” using state-of-the-art AI technology.

But the successful armed struggle for independence enabled Algeria to position itself as the spearhead of African liberation and the champion of pan-African unification. There, Algeria took the stage, front and center, and for Ben Bella, it was time to talk of blood. During a decade when a new international order was rapidly taking shape, African states’ had to prioritize consolidating their own statehood. “This aggression is a battle between progressive republic and conservative monarchy, between revolution and imperialism,” proclaimed Ben Bella. Many Algerians criticized Ben Bella as a hubristic president who preferred fixing the world’s problems instead of focusing on Algeria’s grim socioeconomic realities.

Though Ghazouani is widely expected to win the election, his main opposition is Biram Dah Abeid, a Black anti-slavery activist who has accused him of gross mismanagement of the country. Mauritania is no stranger to human rights abuse accusations, as it was the last country in the world to abolish slavery in 1981. But the practice continues, human rights groups said, with around 149,000 people in modern slavery in this nation of less than 5 million, according to the 2023 Global Slavery Index. “Given the status of slavery in society, the status of a slave, the status of a free man, and especially the status of the men who hold these slaves. It’s ingrained in Mauritanian values, which is why slavery continues to plague Mauritania in such a massive way,” he said.