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The One Club offers $15,000 for global student voter turnout campaigns

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On 29 January 2025 in Kolda, Senegal, Khaby Lame joins a workshop for out-of-school girls organized as part of the ‘Salmaitou’ programme, an initiative engaging girls aged 15 to 19 in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), innovation and leadership. Source: Unicef.

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#Newsmaker | The man behind Africa's first AI-powered media monitoring network

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