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West, Central Africa see major internet outage with undersea cables down. By Reuters. March 14, 2024 4:04 PM UTC Updated March 14, 2024 JOHANNESBURG, March 14 (Reuters) - A major ...
The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...
The French military has completed its withdrawal from Senegal, its last West African country with a permanent troop presence, ...
Why have we seen so many recent coups across West and Central Africa? NPR's Michel Martin asks Christopher Fumonyoh of the National Democratic Institute about coups in Africa, including the latest ...
FILE - Internally displaced people wait for aid in Djibo, Burkina Faso, on May 26, 2022. More than 25,000 people will face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United ...
The Central Depository/Settlement Bank (DC/BR) has officially launched its new digital platform for public offerings (DIGIAPE), with support from the African Development Bank.DIGIAPE will automate ...
As major humanitarian crises continue to unfold, more than 57 million children are now in need of assistance in West and Central Africa, the report said, “a figure that has almost doubled since ...
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Friday that Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade have killed hundreds, displaced 1.3 million residents and affected over 2.8 million people in the West ...
A major internet outage affected West and Central Africa on Thursday, the internet observatory Netblocks said, as operators of multiple subsea cables reported failures.
Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional ...
DAKAR, Senegal — More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday.