ALD Group Limited (ALD) will announce at The Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum (‘GTNF’)’s In Focus event that it is set to launch the first biodegradable vaping product worldwide in mid-2023 – which will also be 90% recyclable (including the packaging, plastic shell, PCBA, mouthpiece and battery).
Currently named the ‘Eco-friendly, Biodegradable Vape Solution’ (EBVS), the new device will take as little as three months to biodegrade, and was created in response to consumer and market demand, as numerous international tobacco customers – with the global scale needed to make vaping more sustainable across the world – have approached ALD with their requests to make e-cigarettes more environmentally friendly.
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Shenzhen, ALD is a high-tech enterprise specializing and leading in electronic atomization technology research and applications. ALD′s business covers ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems), IMV (Inhaled Medical Vaporizer) and HTPs (Heated Tobacco Products).
First Biodegradable Vape to Launch Worldwide
The Embassy of Israel fare welled two Ethiopian mothers of two Israeli Soldiers honored and awarded the President’s Medal of Excellence
The Embassy of the State of Israel fair welled two Ethiopian mothers of two outstanding Israeli soldiers to Israel to attend the President’s Medal of Excellence award ceremony given by Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel. Nathnael Fantahun, 24 and Abrash Zagia, 23 recipients of this award migrated to Israel and joined the military.
Abrash, the first recipient solider serves as medical secretary at the Medical Services Headquarters, received the Presidential Outstanding Medal along with 119 other soldiers. The soldiers receive this award for their significant service and extraordinary contribution to the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and the State of Israel. In 2018, Abrash immigrated to Israel from Addis Ababa as a lone soldier, her Jewish father died 20 years ago when she was a child and her mother, Alganesh Werku, stayed in Ethiopia.
Nathnael Fantahun is the second recipient is a solider awarded with President’s Medal of Excellence award for his excellent achievement in the military. His mother Emebet Negussie said that this was something that was beyond her expectation and everything still feel surreal.
Election Influencers for Hire: Kenya’s Disinformation Factories
In a nondescript office north of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, social media influencer Ian James Mwai constantly glances at his two mobile phones, wary of missing an opportunity to promote the political party he works for. The 23-year-old is in the vanguard of the growing ranks of influencers feverishly punching keyboards and hoping to tilt the outcome of the country’s high-stakes elections, which are less than 100 days away. The rising dominance of platforms like Twitter and Facebook has opened up a new front in Kenyan politics, with candidates desperate to draw the attention of the country’s 12 million social media users…Demographics are a key factor behind the drive: Kenya’s population is estimated to be 50 million, more than half of them under 35. Six million youngsters will also become eligible to vote this year as they come of age. It has spawned a new industry – packed with online personalities who parrot politicians’ views, create false narratives, deflect criticism and promote viral conspiracies. And they offer clients something invaluable: plausible deniability. “There are so many teams and personnel out there and you cannot control what they put online,” said Mwai. “My team is ethical,” the social media strategist hastily adds, referring to the 70 influencers under his wing. Charging a minimum of 50,000 Kenyan shillings ($430) per day for a trending hashtag on Twitter, their services are in hot demand.
IGAD condemns terrorist attack on African Union Peacekeepers in Somalia
The Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Workneh Gebeyehu, strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the base of the Burundian forces of the African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
The Executive Secretary expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the peacekeepers, the Governments and peoples of Burundi and Somalia. He wished the injured a speedy recovery.
Workneh says IGAD is confident that these attacks will neither deter nor alter the determination of IGAD and international partners to support the people of Somalia in their search for a lasting peace and stability.
