The 12th session of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) biennial User Forum in Africa opened in Kigali yesterday.
Scheduled to take place from September 12 to 16, the meeting is organised by EUMETSAT in collaboration with Rwanda Meteorology Agency.
It brought together up to 200 participants from 57 countries representing National Meteorological and Hydrological Services from Africa and Europe, African regional institutional bodies, government agencies and regional scientific and technical institutions, with the objective of discussing the future of satellite data usage in Africa.
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