Africa Weekly Aviation Trails: Week 35, 2024 Highlights.

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    Africa Weekly Aviation Trails: Week 35, 2024 Highlights.

    Introduction.

    At a workshop held at the Golden Tulip in Kampala, Uganda, civil aviation regulators from across Africa, including representatives from Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Tunisia, gathered to tackle pressing issues in passenger protection. The focus was on developing a comprehensive framework to review national laws, rules, regulations, and policies. High on the agenda were solutions to flight delays and strategies for enhancing consumer education and awareness campaigns for the traveling public.

    Meanwhile, in a significant leap for Morocco’s space ambitions, the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) at Mohammed V University in Rabat, alongside the Royal Center for Space Studies and Research, successfully launched two university-developed nanosatellites. The “UM5-EOSat,” equipped with an earth observation camera, and the “UM5-Ribat,” featuring a software-defined radio (SDR), were sent into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This milestone initiative aims to cultivate a new generation of Moroccan researchers and…

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