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Mastercard ventures into African fintech, snapping up $5.2bn stake in continent’s no.1 telco

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 […]

AQIM leader, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdal, killed in Mali

Al Qaeda leader in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdal, was killed by French forces and their allied military in an operation in northern Mali, near the Algerian border, French Defense Minister announced on Friday. the key Islamist fighter and mentor of several Sahel jihadist groups that French forces had been hunting for more […]

Landlocked Sahel countries subscribe to Morocco’s King Atlantic initiative

Four landlocked countries in the Shael welcomed the initiative launched by Morocco’s king to facilitate their access to the Atlantic coast, a goal that requires investments in infrastructure and a co-development approach. Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Chad expressed at a meeting hosted by Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita in Marrakech Saturday their gratitude to […]