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[^2]\n\nOn July 31, the Federation of Informal Sector Waste Workers Associations of Ghana (FISWWAG) was launched, uniting informal waste pickers across 16 regions for formal policy recognition. [^3]\n\nPrincess Kemdi Chika-Okafor participated in the second edition of the Africa Zero Waste Academy 2026, hosted by GAIA and GAYO in Ghana. [^4]\n\nThe authors introduce MASkills, a continual learning framework designed to optimize multi-agent LLM systems through the management of agent skills. [^5]\n\nThe evidence relies on the ages and chemistry of nearby stars rather than a direct trail observed by the Gaia spacecraft tracking the Sun's movement over billions of years. [^6]\n\nThe study suggests the migration occurred while the Milky Way's central bar was taking shape, potentially placing Earth in a quieter galactic environment conducive to complex life. [^7]\n\nThe Academy focused on rethinking and redesigning waste systems through a combination of technical innovation, strategic storytelling, and grassroots climate justice. [^8]\n\nThe Century 21 Foundation plans to expand source-separation models and scale its One Plate, One Nation community feeding initiative using documentary-style storytelling. [^9]\n\nExperiments on the HotpotQA, LoCoMo, and GAIA benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of MASkills across multiple agentic tasks. [^10]\n\nMASkills presents a new agent-optimization pipeline that integrates skill-conditioned credit assignment, hierarchical credit aggregation, and momentum-smoothed optimization. [^11]\n\nThe researchers argue that existing self-reflection methods build experience memories that are mostly hard to invoke, refine, or scale, whereas agent skills offer a more actionable unit of structured procedural knowledge. 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