The World Bank has launched a new $2.48 billion program that aims to improve internet adoption rates and infrastructure coverage gaps for more than 180 million people across eastern and southern Africa. The Inclusive Digitalization in Eastern and Southern Africa (IDEA) Program, launched recently, will focus on tackling common digital challenges including low internet coverage […]
Senegal and Turkey signed an event-driven diplomacy Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote events between the two countries. Aïssata Tall Sall, top diplomat of the African country inked the deal with his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on the sidelines of Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa held on October 24-25. Per the […]
A court in Nouakchott has upheld the prison sentences handed to two sons of former Mauritanian president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla involved in a drug trafficking case, reports say. Ely Cheikh and Sidi Mohamed Ould Haidalla saw the prison sentences they were handed in June confirmed, their lawyer Moctar Ould Ely told the media on […]
