The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in its quest to reach out to larger segments of internet users and populations has chosen youth as major mouth-pieces to spread the organization’s activities on the continent. Programs tailored for youth have been initiated where the next generation of leaders is groomed to play greater […]
Algerian police forces broke Wednesday a sit-in of workers of the banned El Watan El Djazairia TV and arrested 18 protestors, reports said. A total of 18 participants in the sit-in have been arrested while they were protesting the closure of El Watan El Djazairia TV, one of Algiers’ private TV stations. “Police forces raided […]
A total of 79 individuals, including the jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, are reported to have filed their candidacy for the February 2024 presidential election in Senegal before the Tuesday (26 December) deadline amid allegations that the Senegalese authorities have been intensifying repression ahead of the vote. When Macky Sall, President of Senegal since 2012, […]
