Africa: Financing Africa’s Digital Future – Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding

Africa: Financing Africa’s Digital Future – Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach. To bridge this gap, African multilateral financial institutions, policymakers, development partners, and private sector leaders are calling for a more coordinated, innovative, and better-structured financing approach to support Africa’s digital…

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Africa: Financing Africa’s Digital Future – Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding

Africa Needs Coordinated Structures for Greater Integration in Blue Economy – UNDP

Luanda — The resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Angola, Gabriel Dava, advocated on Wednesday in Luanda for greater investment from African countries and the creation of institutions, structures, or coordination mechanisms dedicated to the blue economy, with the aim of accelerating integration in this sector. Addressing the 3rd Edition of…

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Africa: Bamako Under Siege – How Coordinated Attacks Exposed the Mali Government’s Fragility – and Tested the Aes

Africa: Bamako Under Siege – How Coordinated Attacks Exposed the Mali Government’s Fragility – and Tested the Aes

The coordinated attacks that shook Mali on 25-27 April 2026 are not an anomaly. They are the culmination of a long, deteriorating security trajectory–one that has steadily eroded state authority, exposed strategic miscalculations, and now threatens to overwhelm national and regional security architectures. At the centre of this crisis lies a troubling reality: Mali is…

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Africa: Financing Africa’s Digital Future – Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding

African Ambassadors in China Reaffirm Commitment to Promote Coordinated Continental Approaches to Implement the AfCFTA and Advance Trade and Industrialisation in Africa

The Annual Retreat of the Group of African Ambassadors in China (GAAC), held in Beijing from 23 to 24 April 2026 on leveraging China’s 100% tariff-free offer to African countries, concluded on a strong and forward-looking note. GAAC Member States and participants underscored the importance of coordinated African approaches, supported by harmonised continental strategies and…

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Quectel Issues Cease and Desist Letters to Telit Cinterion, Thales Group, DBAY Advisors, Liberty Bell Project and Charles Parton in Response to Coordinated Disinformation Campaign Against Quectel

Quectel Issues Cease and Desist Letters to Telit Cinterion, Thales Group, DBAY Advisors, Liberty Bell Project and Charles Parton in Response to Coordinated Disinformation Campaign Against Quectel

Quectel today announced that it sent letters to Telit Cinterion, Thales Group, DBAY Advisors, Liberty Bell Project and Charles Parton demanding that they stop disseminating false and defamatory statements about Quectel regarding risks associated with its products’ security and the company’s purported connections to the Chinese government. The letters assert that Telit Cinterion, Thales Group,…

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