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“Just transition: Africa nations plan coalition to stop plunder of green minerals”

by Cyril Zenda in Al Mayadeen English

“After centuries of its natural resources being plundered by foreign powers, Africa moves to stop this exploitation by creating a coalition of nations rich in strategic minerals vital to the global transition toward green energy”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/features/just-transition--africa-nations-plan-coalition-to-stop-plund

#Press #Africa #AU #Minerals #Resources #Plunder #Exploitation #Coalition #GreenMinerals #DigitalMinerals #NeoColonialism

Just transition: Africa nations plan coalition to stop plunder of green minerals

After centuries of its natural resources being plundered by foreign powers, Africa moves to stop this exploitation by creating a coalition of nations rich in strategic minerals vital to the global transition toward green energy.

Al Mayadeen English

AST 1d ago

#Testing #resources: Check out our presentations archive!
https://github.com/associationforsoftwaretesting/presentations/tree/main

Newsramp 2d ago

Mining expert Craig Parry joins Fitzroy Minerals as Technical Advisor, bringing extensive experience in resource discovery and strategic leadership to the company's Chilean copper projects. #Mining #Resources

ResearchBuzz: Firehose 2d ago

NiemanLab: The Journalism Support Exchange is a new matchmaking tool for local news outlets to get the help they need. “The Journalism Support Exchange (JSX), launched Wednesday, is a user-friendly, searchable database that media workers can query and browse to find the resources, tools, and experts they need to solve a particular problem.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/13/niemanlab-the-journalism-support-exchange-is-a-new-matchmaking-tool-for-local-news-outlets-to-get-the-help-they-need/

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Calishat 2d ago

#media #journalism #support #resources

'The Journalism Support Exchange (JSX), launched Wednesday, is a user-friendly, searchable database that media workers can query and browse to find the resources, tools, and experts they need to solve a particular problem.'

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/the-journalism-support-exchange-is-a-new-matchmaking-tool-for-local-news-outlets-to-get-the-help-they-need/

The Journalism Support Exchange is a new matchmaking tool for local news outlets to get the help they need

Put a finger down if you've ever been in a journalism-related Slack and asked for recommendations or help with something, got a bunch of responses that you sifted through, only to find in the end that none of those recommendations actually matched your particular need. It's a common experience a…

Nieman Lab

C.3d ago

Programming in MicroPython is interesting, in multiple ways.

If you're not familiar with it, it's a port of the Python language to run on very small systems - primarily microcontrollers of various types. Programming for any of these types of systems, in any language/environment, always poses some challenges because of the limited resources. Forget 32-bit machines limited to 1GB of user-mode address space - think 256 KB of RAM being unimaginably vast for many MCUs, even today.

They did a pretty amazing job getting Python to run on these MCUs. It even supports a lot of the standard library, with restrictions, limits, and various missing bits an unavoidable side-effect.

The specific things that have tickled me about it recently include:

* Missing stdlib modules that a modern Python programmer just takes for granted.

* Don't do more than basic type hints / annotations, because MicroPython won't like them.

* Get used to running into out-of-memory errors if you build lots of complex data structures at runtime.

* Some of the more modern features and syntax aren't supported.

It actually feels kind of like programming in Python 1.1 or so did. I haven't checked, but it wouldn't surprise me if exceptions were strings 😉

#MicroPython #Python #microcontroller #MCU #software #programming #resources #nostalgia #exceptions