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Africa’s digital development needs boost from AfCFTA, import duties cuts — World Bank

African countries face higher tariffs and tend to import relatively low-quality digital goods compared to other regions, especially in low-income nations, a recent research by World Bank economists has found. Despite relying heavily on imports, tariffs that African countries impose on imported digital goods are about three times higher than other regions, the research has […]

Benin’s Talon poised to restore ties with Niger after diplomatic showdown

Patrice Talon, Benin’s President, told Thursday December 21 lawmakers, his keenness to thaw ties with neighboring Niger where he condemned the military coup that removed West-backed leader Mohamed Bazoum on July 26. Talon was among hardliners in the regional organization, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), that wielded military intervention to restore Bazoum, […]

Morocco’s Royal Navy foils drug trafficking operation, seizes 2 tons of drugs

Coast Guards of the Moroccan Royal Navy, operating in the Mediterranean, aborted, Friday, a drug trafficking operation east of Al Hoceima, says a military source. This operation led to the seizure of 53 bundles of narcotics abandoned by a go-fast boat which fled at high speed when approached by units of the Royal Navy, the […]