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RE: African Space Agency

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Africa is one step closer to setting up its own space agency after AU ministers approved a feasibility study to develop an 'African Space Agency'.
The idea is to draft a common space policy which - some say - would aid development and help Africa overcome many of its challenges.
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Africa Considers a Continent-Wide Space Agency

Africa is a step closer to setting up its own space agency, with the approval of a planned feasibility study by the 53 member states of the African Union earlier this month.
The African Space Agency, as it would be known, would be intended to help ensure the continent becomes an important player in the global space programme.
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AU to Establish African Space Agency

The African Union, has commenced a process that would lead to the setting up of a regional space agency. The agency, to be known as the African Space Agency, would focus on the development of common space policy for the continent .
In a communique issured at the end of the third African Union conference of Ministers in charge of Communications and Information Technologies held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, member countries agreed to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of the African Space Agency,
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