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SIKOUM Limestone Project - Core Drilling Launched by SONAMINES
On May 28, 2024, the Director General of SONAMINES, Serge Hervé Boyogueno, officially launched the company's first core drilling campaign at the Sikoum limestone prospect in the Dibamba district, Littoral Region. Despite challenging weather conditions, the launch proceeded successfully under his supervision.
Upon arrival, Boyogueno paid a courtesy visit to the local Chief, Prince Landry Metoukson, to seek the village's continued support for the project. After receiving assurances from the Chief, the delegation, which included officials from the Ministry of Mines and representatives from CIMPOR Cameroon, proceeded to the drilling site.
The drilling teams extracted a 1.10-meter limestone core, marking a symbolic milestone for SONAMINES. The project is based on reconnaissance and research permits obtained in 2022 and 2023, respectively, allowing SONAMINES to carry out preliminary studies, including geophysical and physical-mechanical characterization of the resource.
Following the launch, Boyogueno visited the CIMPOR cement plant in Kribi to explore potential partnerships and later stopped at the SONAMINES office in Pouma to assess operations and discuss future projects. The core drilling work, which follows road access preparations, is aimed at gathering comprehensive geological data to support future resource exploitation.
High-stakes AI summit in Paris: World leaders, tech titans and challenging diplomatic talks
High-stakes AI summit in Paris: World leaders, tech titans and challenging diplomatic talks
High-stakes AI summit in Paris: World leaders, tech titans and challenging diplomatic talks
PARIS — Major world leaders are meeting for an AI summit in Paris, where challenging diplomatic talks are expected as tech titans fight for dominance in the fast-moving technology industry.
Heads of state, top government officials, CEOs and scientists from around 100 countries are participating in the two-day international summit from Monday.
High-profile attendees include U.S. Vice President JD Vance, on his first overseas trip since taking office, and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing.
“We’re living a technology and scientific revolution we’ve rarely seen,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday on national television France. We must seize the “opportunity” because AI "will enable us to live better, learn better, work better, care better and it’s up to us to put this artificial intelligence at the service of human beings,” he said.
Fostering AI advances
The summit, which gathers major players such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, aims at fostering AI advances in sectors like health, education, environment and culture.
A global public-private partnership named “Current AI” is to be launched to support large-scale initiatives that serve the general interest.
The Paris summit “is the first time we’ll have had such a broad international discussion in one place on the future of AI,” said Linda Griffin, vice president of public policy at Mozilla. “I see it as a norm-setting moment.”
Nick Reiners, senior geotechnology analyst at Eurasia Group, noted an opportunity to shape AI governance in a new direction by “moving away from this concentration of power amongst a handful of private actors and building this public interest AI instead."
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