A Row Threatening to Derail Somalia’s Election Process
The Somali prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble, has fired the head of the country’s intelligence unit over the disappearance of a female spy. Roble accused the spy chief, Fahad Yasin Haji Dahir, a former close ally of the president, of mixing politics and security and ordered him to hand over power within three days. He […]
Almost 83 Percent of Ivorians Use Mobile Money
In 2014, the Ivorian government began allowing high school students to pay for their tuition electronically. Today, around 94% of the country’s 1.5 million high school students pay their tuition via mobile money, according to the ministry of education. The project was in part meant to check corruption, but it quickly turned out to be […]
Officials Discover Fake Dollars Circultaing in Mozambique
About $16,000 of counterfeit notes have been seized in Mozambique, with investigators suspecting that a regional syndicate is specialising in printing fake currency. Police said they had arrested two Angolans, and arrest warrants for other suspects would be issued. Mozambican, Angolan and South African nationals were suspected to be part of a currency-forging syndicate – […]
The West is Making it Hard for Africa to Meet Vaccinating Targets
Rich nations would do better to send vaccines to Africa to help fight the global Covid-19 pandemic rather than hoarding them for third-dose booster shots that scientific evidence does not back, the AU’s top health official said on Thursday. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) director John Nkengasong told a news conference […]
Nigeria Cuts Comms to Ambush Kidnappers
Most residents in Nigeria’s north western Zamfara State have welcomed a government directive ordering a shutdown of internet and phone communications now in its sixth day designed to combat a spate of banditry and ransom-seeking kidnappings plaguing the region. Last Friday, mobile network providers were directed by Nigeria’s telecom regulator to shut down communications in […]
Morocco Votes Out the Old Guard
Morocco’s liberal RNI party has won the most seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, while the co-ruling moderate PJD Islamists suffered a crushing defeat, preliminary results showed. RNI, led by billionaire agriculture minister Aziz Akhannouch, took 97 of the 395-seat parliament. Another liberal party, PAM, secured 82 seats and the conservative Istiqlal took 78 seats. […]
