Africa’s largest telecom operator, MTN Group, is in advanced negotiations with U.S. and European firms to build a network of AI-powered data centers across the continent — a strategic move to close the continent’s infrastructure gap and position it as a key player in the global digital economy. The initiative, led by MTN’s newly formed […]
The UN Special Representative for Libya Ghassan Salamé pointed to the violence in the capital, Tripoli, that began on August 26 as shattering “the façade of calm that had prevailed since May 2017,” relaying that tanks and heavy artillery were deployed into residential neighborhoods, leaving 61 Libyans dead and injuring nearly 160. “Many of those […]
A group of unidentified youth in the Libyan eastern town of Marada has vowed to shut down oil fields over lack of employment and social services. The youth in a statement complained about an absent state, lack of health care and other services, and Marada town’s lack of road links to other communities. “We, the […]
