Africa
National language: Niger dumps French for Hausa
The Niger military government has officially made Hausa the country’s new national language, moving away from its colonial past where French played a central...
ECOWAS approves funding for West African development projects
The Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a total of €230 million and $10 million to...
Mobile money transactions valued at $1.68T: GSMA
Mobile money platforms processed about 108 billion transactions valued at $1.68 trillion in 2024, according to GSMA’s “State of the Industry Report on Mobile...
$88.6B lost to illicit flows in Africa annually: ECOWAS
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said that illicit financial flows cost Africa a whopping $88.6 billion yearly.
Abdel-Fatau Musah, the ECOWAS...
No country has ever developed under democracy: B’Faso’s president
The president of Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, said the country is undergoing a “popular, progressive revolution” and not operating under a democratic system.
He...
