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Abdou Karim Sall, the head of the Senegal’s telecommunication market regulator (ARTP) has brushed aside the possibility for the West African country to open the telecommunication market to a fourth service provider. Senegal’s current telecommunication market is dominated by three firms namely Sonatel, Free (formerly Tigo) and Expresso. During an interview with state-run news agency […]
Egypt’s General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) will launch a digital platform that enables investors to establish their companies online on July 1st, the authority’s Chief Executive Officer announced Thursday. Hossam Heiba made the announcement as he met with Swiss ambassador in Cairo, Vonne Bauman. The Authority is adopting mechanisms for dialogue between […]
Italy will recruit 4,000 Tunisian workers, as the two countries move to spur regular migration. Antonio Tajani, Italy’s top diplomat and his visiting Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar who made the announcement Thursday in Rome said that the future recruits will be trained in Tunisia before deployment in the European country, Webdo Tunis reports. The recruitment […]
Netflix plans to expand its operations in Africa, building on the success of hit shows and series like the South African drama “Blood and Water”, the online video-streaming giant said. Netflix has invested $175 million in film content production in the continent since launching its operations in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria in 2016, having […]
Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a highly effective R21/Matrix-M vaccine against malaria, developed at Oxford university in the United Kingdom, though questions remain over funding and also how or when the vaccine would be rolled out. The vaccine, the first to exceed the World Health Organization’s (WTO) target of […]
The Israeli Knesset hosted on Wednesday evening, for the first time in its history, a ceremony in Moroccan colors on the occasion of Mimouna, the traditional holiday of Moroccan Jews, which has become a public event celebrated every year in the country. The Mimouna, propagated by Moroccan Jews, is held directly on the night of […]
The mobilization in capital Khartoum and other cities of a paramilitary force headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, generally referred to as Hemetti, had raised the risk of confrontation with the federal armed forces, the Sudanese army said this Thursday April 13. The mobilization of the powerful paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), represented a […]
The European Union has been slammed for its inability to act against Samherji, Iceland’s largest fishing company, following its involvement in one of Africa’s biggest scandals, as it has exposed the hollowness of its self-declared fight against corruption. The financial scandal — named after a 2019 Wikileaks release called the “Fishrot Files” — stretches from […]
After a series of arbitrary arrests and bogus charges against outspoken reporters, Algeria moved to institutionalize its crackdown on free speech through a law that makes muzzling the press a legal process. The law includes provisions forcing journalists to uncover their sources and bans receiving foreign funds, a charge that has been used to shutdown […]
Speaker of Canada’s Senate, George F. Furey has paid tribute to the leadership of King Mohammed VI and to the reforms engaged in Morocco, leading to progress, inclusive and sustainable development. Speaking to journalists following a meeting held Wednesday in Rabat with Foreign minister Nasser Bourita, Furey commended Morocco’s key role in the fight against […]