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Volkswagen & Siemens launch joint electric mobility pilot project in Rwanda

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The Moving Rwanda Initiative was established as the result of Volkswagen’s initial investment in Rwanda, which saw the launch of Africa’s first Integrated Mobility Solutions business in June 2018. Ghana and Ethiopia are planned as the next locations. —Thomas Schäfer. Africa is the last frontier for the automotive industry.

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UN: world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 11 billion around 2100

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In 2018, for the first time in history, persons aged 65 or above outnumbered children under five years of age globally. The latest assessment uses the results of 1,690 national population censuses conducted between 1950 and 2018, as well as information from vital registration systems and from 2,700 nationally representative sample surveys.

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