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Academics from the diaspora of Cape Verde, which numbers an estimated 1.5 million people, compared to 587,925 inhabitants of this Atlantic archipelago, are complaining that their talents and expertise are being overlooked by local political and academic leaders.

Indeed, many claim they struggle to see their overseas qualifications recognised in Cape Verde, which they say would enable them to improve the country’s higher education and academic research.…

Egypt was one of the fastest growing paint markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2021 and early 2022, but the depreciation of its currency on foreign exchange markets, surging inflation and an economic downturn over the past year is now depressing the sector.…

AML is all about the deft use of IT and the marshalling of data culled from financial records, but comprehensive KYC and client monitoring, as well as proactive ML investigations following up a suspicion, are aided by effective online tools that can uncover essential information.…

Growing online sales of tobacco products within the European Union (EU) are boosting industry revenues, despite increasing sales restrictions, including some outright bans on internet purchases of tobacco products. The German market and consumer data platform Statista foresees 2.5% of the total USD170 billion [EUR160 million] sales generated by the tobacco sector – all products – within 2023 will come from online sales, meaning USD4.25 billion [EUR4 billion].…

Transparency International warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” in unveiling the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).…

Transparency International (TI) has warned that “conflict creates opportunities for corruption and subverts governments’ efforts to stop it” when unveiling its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 31, scoring 180 countries worldwide on perceived levels of public sector corruption from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean) with the average 43.…

The Netherlands’ education, culture and science minister Robbert Dijkgraaf’s call for universities and universities of applied sciences (UAS) to stop participating in international education fairs until further notice would be a step too far, university chairs have told University World News (UWN).…

Traceable pigments are increasingly being used as a favoured trackable method to help textile and garment companies prove that cellulosic fibres utilised in fabric and final products have been made according to high social and environmental sustainability standards. With regulation, non-financial reporting and green consumer demand pushing the industry towards using fabrics that are demonstrably sustainable, cellulosic fibres derived from wood pulp and other woody plants such as bamboo, have become more attractive as inputs.…

Factory digitisation, including the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, has increased big data availability by “at least two orders of magnitude from what was available a couple of decades ago,” said UK-based AI-driven predictive maintenance software provider Senseye chief technology officer and co-founder Robert Russell.…

The paint markets of the Gulf region’s two largest economies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have rebounded since the Covid-19 pandemic and are slated for growth, driven by major investments in real estate and infrastructure projects.

“Over the past 18 months, we have seen a flat and slightly declining paint markets in the region.…