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EO Alliances: Boosting Climate Resilience in West and North Africa

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In a landmark partnership poised to redefine the landscape of Earth Observation (EO) and its application in sustainable development, the “Centre de Suivi Ecologique” (CSE) of Senegal has joined forces with the MarCNoWA Project, led by the University of Ghana's College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS). This collaboration, recently highlighted through a visit by Prof. Cheik Mbow, head of CSE, to Prof. Boateng Onwona-Agyeman, the Provost of CBAS and Director of the MarCNoWA Project, signals a new era in leveraging satellite technologies for environmental stewardship and climate change adaptation across Africa. Prof. Boateng Onwona-Agyeman, Provost of the University of Ghana's College of Basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS) and Director of MArCNoWA Project  (left) and Prof. Cheick Mbow, Director General of CSE (right). Central to this collaboration is the engagement with the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) & Africa Programme, a joint initiative of the Af