Cooperation between the European Union and African Union in area exploration was the new subject at a three-day occasion that happened in Dakar this week, as Africa’s rising area sector is turning into more and more necessary for the sustainable financial growth of the continent.
“As a basic pillar of human growth, the area sector presents new financial, scientific, technological and army challenges,” Senegal’s Prime Minister, Amadou Ba, stated on the AU-EU Area Dialogue in Dakar.
The primary version of the discussion board wrapped up on Thursday within the Senegalese capital following a gathering that attracted stakeholders from Africa and Europe, sharing experience and fostering cooperation in area analysis, earth statement, satellite tv for pc navigation, satellite-based connectivity and communication.
“The area sector can solely develop by way of collaboration,” defined Maram Kaïré, director normal of the Senegalese Area Research Company (ASES).
“We have now reached a stage, in Africa, the place we’re more and more creating area programmes and area companies … so, it will be important that we sit round a desk and discover out what it’s that we would like from this sector, the right way to attain it and with whom,” he added.
Africa’s first satellite tv for pc, NileSat 101, was launched by Egypt in 1998.
Some 25 years on, African states have launched a complete of 45 satellites, with the AU predicting that by 2027 that whole ought to enhance to a minimum of 165.
Anecdotally, an asteroid is definitely named after Maram Kaïré.
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