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VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 2, 2022 /CNW/ – (TSX: AOI) (Nasdaq-Stockholm: AOI) – Africa Oil Corp. (“AOI”, “Africa Oil” or “the Company”) provides an update on its appeal process  in relation to Kenya Revenue Authority’s (“KRA”) corporate income tax (“CIT”) and value added tax (“VAT”) assessments, made in connection with farmout transactions completed during the period of 2012 to 2017. View PDF Version  Related Documents AFRICA OIL – KENYA HIGH COURT TAX APPEAL UPDATE (CNW Group/Africa Oil Corp.) On April 8, 2020, Africa Oil announced that Kenya Tax Appeals Tribunal (“TAT”) had ruled on the Company’s appeal related to KRA’s CIT and VAT…

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During French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to the United States this week, First ladies Jill Biden and Brigitte Macron visited the Planet Word museum – an immersive experience dedicated to language arts – where they and a group of students took in a bilingual poetry reading that included the national poet laureate and former national student poet. What You Need To Know First ladies Jill Biden and Brigitte Macron visited the Planet Word museum on Thursday during French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to the United States The two first ladies, both lifelong educators, and a group of students took in a bilingual poetry…

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Jeff Landry speaks during CPAC Texas 2022Photo: Shutterstock Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) has launched an online form encouraging state residents to report the “taxpayer-subsided sexualization of children” by librarians, their supervisors, teachers, school board members, and district superintendents. “Librarians and teachers are neither empowering nor liberating our children by connecting them with books that contain extremely graphic sexual content that is far from age appropriate for young audiences,” the form, entitled “Protect Minors,” reads. “If this type of taxpayer-subsided sexualization of children has impacted you or your family, tell us about it.” Landry, who recently launched a bid…

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South Africa is home to tens of thousands of small-scale fishers and fishing households. Some fish are purely for consumption and subsistence, while others make up a small commercial sector. Small-scale fishers have long suffered discrimination in South Africa. Under the apartheid government’s segregation policies, many were forcibly removed from their homes and traditional fishing grounds. They were also unable to sell their catch. Despite high hopes for reform under the post-apartheid government, policies did not favor the majority of small-scale fisheries. Instead, they emphasized privatization and economic growth. As a result, small-scale fishers in the Western Cape province joined…

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Comment on this storyCommentCAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa’s ruling party said Friday that it is still considering whether to allow legislators to start impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa, the last remaining member of Nelson Mandela’s inner circle still in government leadership.A panel of two judges and a lawyer sent shock waves through the government on Wednesday when they recommended an impeachment committee investigate whether Ramaphosa committed misconduct in an incident involving a large sum of money hidden in a couch that was later stolen.Ramaphosa said in response, “I categorically deny that I have violated this oath in…

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Hundreds of academics and leaders of international institutions from around the world came together for an African Development Bank Forum on ways to harness the skills, wealth and dynamism of Africa’s 160-million-strong diaspora to its growth and development. The hybrid event took place against the difficult geopolitical backdrop of high global economic imbalances slowing direct investment into the continent as well as accelerating shifts in the job market. As a result, experts believe the $95.6 billion that Africans abroad remitted to the continent and their skills and expertise have assumed greater importance to Africa’s prospects.   Participants agreed that more…

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As tensions between Russia and the West rage over the ongoing war in Ukraine, a senior Moscow diplomat has told Newsweek that a new front has emerged in Africa, where he envisioned a collapse of colonial influence and the dawn of a new mutually beneficial order for both the continent and the Kremlin.”Highly dynamic Africa holds a special place in today’s decreasingly Western-centric world order, which explains the surge of interest in the region among many international partners,” Ambassador-at-Large Oleg Ozerov, who serves as head of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, told Newsweek.”Russian leadership regards developing ties with the continent as…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Thursday, December 1, 2022SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – The Arizona Coyotes announced today that the Arizona Coyotes Foundation, in conjunction with Bally Sports Arizona, will be holding a charity broadcast during the Coyotes versus New York Islanders game on Friday, December 16. All funds raised online during the broadcast will be donated to Phoenix Children’s. The broadcast will begin on Bally Sports Arizona at 7:30 p.m. with the “Coyotes Live” pre-game show at 7:00 p.m. The game will also be streamed on the Bally Sports app and on Bally Sports+.”We are excited to once again team up with our great…

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Editor’s note: This story first appeared as a newsletter alongside a roundup of Technical.ly’s best reporting from the week, job openings and more. Subscribe here to get updates on Delaware tech, business and innovation news in your inbox on Thursdays. Latinx entrepreneurs in Sussex County are getting a boost from M&T Bank, which is investing another $100,000 as a grant to La Plaza Delaware that will allow it to serve more Spanish-speaking downstaters in 2023. This new investment follows last year’s $100,000 M&T grant to La Plaza that supported a 12-week Spanish-language business development program and a loan pool administered by True Access Capital that offers $2,500…

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After 36 years behind the Orr’s Island Library desk, Oct. 31 was Librarian Joanne Rogers’ last day. It was not the way she wanted to end her long and influential tenure. But the library’s board of trustees decided this fall that the library needed changes, including new technology, and voted unanimously that Rogers was no longer the right person for the job. On Nov. 26, the board announced that Anne Wilkes would be the next librarian. Assistant Librarian Maura Donovan resigned from her job at the same time that Rogers was forced out, saying she didn’t feel comfortable with the…

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