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[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- TANZANIA and Uganda yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop the proposed Tanga Regional Energy Hub, marking a major step towards deeper energy cooperation, industrialisation and regional trade.

[Independent (Kampala)] Dar es Salaam -- President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania have endorsed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at reshaping East Africa's energy economy by shifting the region's focus from crude oil exports to building an integrated regional energy and industrial hub.

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[New Times] President Paul Kagame on Thursday, July 30, received a bipartisan United States Congressional delegation led by Representative Brett Guthrie, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

[Premium Times] They [governors] are taking four to five times their money. Nobody is borrowing money to pay salaries now," the president added.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Immediate former Chief Justice David Maraga has dismissed President William Ruto's proposed national dialogue on Kenya's post-Vision 2030 future as a distraction from what he termed the administration's failures on corruption, the cost of living and constitutionalism.

[Bird Story Agency] Sierra Leone's traditional textiles are being reimagined into a modern fashion economy, as designers like Frederica Williams preserve heritage while building a thriving local industry ready for global markets.

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[Bird Story Agency] A new generation of hybrid cotton seeds is giving Zimbabwean farmers fresh reason for optimism. Developed to deliver higher yields and withstand climate shocks and pests, the seeds are helping to boost productivity and improve livelihoods in farming communities.

[allAfrica] Africa grows more than half of the world's finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a narrative problem -- and allAfrica is setting out to fix it.

[Namibian] President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Friday witnessed the signing of an agreement between Namibia's Okaparwa Investment CC and China's Sany Energy Equipment Co Ltd during her state visit to China.

[Namibian] President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah held a courtesy meeting in Chengdu, China, with representatives of China National Chemical Engineering (CNCEC) and Hyphen Hydrogen Energy.

[New Zimbabwe] South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has condemned the enactment of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Amendment Act No.3, accusing ZANU PF of prioritising its grip on power over the welfare of citizens and betraying the ethos of the liberation struggle.

[RFI] Four Ugandan farmers filed a case against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) at the UK's High Court on Tuesday, seeking to have Ugandan constitutional, environmental and climate law applied to EACOP Ltd, the UK-registered company financing the project

[ISS] Neither Cameroon nor the DRC is doing enough to improve oversight and management of unregulated gold mining.

[New Times] Rwanda's ambition to build its first small modular reactor (SMR) is moving closer to reality, but one major question remains unanswered: who will pay for it?

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Four Ugandans have filed a landmark lawsuit in the UK High Court seeking to stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) from becoming operational.

[The Conversation Africa] South Sudan's independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa's longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did not end the deeper struggles over power, revenue and coercion inside the newly independent state.

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