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“African Education Week provides a platform to air problems and find solutions: such platforms are very important" says independent education specialist Graeme Bloch and moderator of this year’s African Education Week in Johannesburg this month.

African Education Week in Johannesburg, South Africa, will discuss in June how iPads, cell phones and other gadgets are the future tools of learning.

“Virtually every corner of Africa will be represented in Barcelona at the Africa Energy Forum”, says Bruno Cockburn, programme director of the 15th edition of the event that is taking place from 18-20 June in Barcelona this year.

“Bigger and better” is how all concerned describe this year’s African Utility Week and the co-located Clean Power Africa that took place in Cape Town from 14-15 May at the CTICC.

Dr Mamphela Ramphele, leader of Agang SA, will deliver the keynote address during the opening session at the upcoming African Education Week at the Sandton Convention Centre on Thursday, 20 June.

A recent report from the World Bank indicated that the GDP of a third of African countries grew by at least 6% last year, despite the estimate that power outages cost African economies on average around 2% pa of their GDP.

UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, H.H. Sheikh Nahayan bin Mabarak Al Nahayan, will deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming Iraq Energy 2013/2014 conference in Abu Dhabi’s Sofitel Hotel on 22-23 May.

The City of Cape Town will showcase its world class water and sanitation facilities and share its strategic plans for the future of the City’s water services during next week’s African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa conference and exhibition.

Some 5 000 power & water professionals from all over the continent will attend Africa’s leading power & water exhibition and conference at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 14-15 May, offering practical solutions to challenges.

“Symbion Power and many other companies from the United States are ready to invest in Africa,” says Paul Hinks, CEO of Symbion Power, platinum sponsor at the upcoming African Utility Week taking place in Cape Town from 14-15 May.