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Botswana, Southern Africa
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Martin Chibanda retweeted
Today I deposited the instruments for ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, His Excellency Moussa Faki Mahamat.
Mind-bending and resplendent first image of the #jwst James Webb Space Telescope. Representing a "small piece of sky the size of a grain of sand". Humanity's greatest achievement yet, opening an extremely exciting chapter in our study of the cosmos.
ALT High resolution first image of the James Web Space Telescope showing a small piece of the sky showing abundant galaxies and worlds beyond our own. Some bright stars within our galaxy are brightly present in the foreground. In the background are variously coloured galaxies at great density with some evidence of gravitational lensing presenting with some of the objects.
12 July 2022, this cutting edge space telescope avails its first science data to the world.
After a six-month process of aligning @NASAWebb’s mirror and preparing its science instruments, @NASA
is scheduled to debut the first full color images & data from the telescope on July 12th! #UnfoldtheUniverse! go.nasa.gov/3GIwI2P
Martin Chibanda retweeted
𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘; 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗦𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗔 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗭𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗜𝗔 𝗧𝗢 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗞𝗔𝗭𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗟𝗔 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗚𝗘
Martin Chibanda retweeted
Please join @Wits_WSG for a public lecture on The Rebuilding of African Economies During and After #COVID19 - Opportunities Women Should Leverage for Their Advancement by @BogoloKenewendo. Thurs, 4 Feb 2021, 18:00. Register here wits-za.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
A fresh take on @JoeBiden that I had never seen before.
Our ancient civilisation will never be defeated by the present pandemic. With tenacity, temperance & tolerance, the global unity of scientists will turn COVID-19 to COVID-ZERO.
"Many Zimbabweans are concerned that political elites have been making indecent profits from foreign currency trading on the parallel market"
The economic inequality evident in #Zimbabwe is in a select league of the extraordinary and outrageous. No case illustrates this more starkly than the recent purchase of a $200,000 sports car by a ruling party MP. @Wamagaisa in this week's Africa Watch: vanguardafrica.com/africawat…
Martin Chibanda retweeted
It is now official: African Continental Free #Trade Area (#AfCFTA) agreement has entered into force today, 30th May 2019. The required number of ratifications has already been deposited and the agreement is now a binding international legal instrument #AfricaWeWant #Africa4Growth
Scientists uncover a lost historical Setswana city just outside Johannesburg adding to the richness of African history.
bigthink.com/surprising-scie…
Development challenges are economic opportunities that the private sector @BusinesssBotsPR should help to solve.
Mokgweetsi Masisi on what makes Botswana attractive to investors - CNBC Africa cnbcafrica.com/videos/2019/0…
Martin Chibanda retweeted
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. – Abraham Maslow
#Perspective #Relativity
Ugandans ought not to join Museveni at these remarks goo.gl/gqMs5s rather support global justice @IntlCrimCourt a universal right.
Africa's artificial borders are the source of many challenges here are Mozambique's challenges curiosity.com/paths/mozambiq…
I beat 99% of people trading $ENE, ranking #14. Great fun! The Trading Game: bloomberg.com/features/2015-…
dw.com/p/1H94h?tw African Union criticizes International Criminal Court. Conflicted: the union is composed of the some of the accused.
The ANC is on shaky ground, must make way for others or change for the better of the whole continent ow.ly/D7ILu