Burkina Faso to send troops to Niger to prop up junta in event of aggression

The government of Burkina Faso has green-lighted plans to send military troops to Niger to back the junta in power in case of foreign aggression as possible military intervention of regional bloc Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) looms. A Cabinet statement late Wednesday August 30, Anadolu news agency reports, said the government was […]

ZTE completes deployment of Mauritania’s first national backbone network

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has announced that it has helped Mauritania complete the deployment of the country’s first national backbone network. As an important part of the world-bank financed WARCIP (West African Regional Communications Infrastructure Program), Mauritania’s national broadband network construction project […]

Cameroon, Chad truckers protest dangerous roads, govt ban on heavy-duty trucks

Hundreds of truckers have stopped working on Cameroon’s border with Chad to protest a ban on heavy trucking into Chad, which depends on Cameroon for 80% of its imported goods. Drivers transporting food and humanitarian assistance slammed what they call Cameroon’s refusal to repair the highly dilapidated road linking northern Cameroon and Chad. The strategically […]