Mastercard has acquired a minority stake in the fintech subsidiary of South African telecommunications giant MTN in a deal valued at a whopping $5.2 billion, whereby the partnership will see Africa’s biggest mobile company to strategically leverage the US giant’s technology for its payments and remittance expansion in the continent. By snapping up the minority […]
The UK government has said it still sticks to the plan to hand over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius even after the country’s new leader backed away from the contentious deal, arguing that it did not benefit his country enough. London announced it will transfer the sovereignty over the contested Indian Ocean archipelago, which […]
The Moroccan policy of disarmament and non-proliferation is based on principles and values that the Kingdom respects and promotes with constancy and continuity, said, Thursday in Johannesburg, Moroccan ambassador to South Africa, Youssef Amrani. Speaking at the headquarters of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) at the opening of the 5th session of the Conference of States […]
