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The Pan-African Economy in Brief of 20/03/2017

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SENEGAL :

The incumbent Telecom Namibia has announced the end of the first phase of deployment of the 4G network across the country. Very high-speed Internet connectivity technology is currently available in four coastal cities: Henties Bay, Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Langstrand. For the success of this first phase, the telecom company offered the technical expertise of the Chinese company HuaWei Technologies. With the completion of this first phase of deployment of 4G across the country, Theo Klein, the CEO of Telecom Namibia, explains that this solution will enable the telecom company to respond more effectively to residential and business customers In high quality data capacity. Beyond customer satisfaction, Telecom Namibia's commercial offensive will also allow it to record new revenues aroused by the attractiveness of the population for broadband data. The 4G, which Telecom Namibia plans to continue deploying across the country in the coming months, will gradually increase the data capacity provided by the telecom company through WiMAX since 2007. Once completed, this vast project "will contribute to the realization of the vision of broadband development and the national digital economy carried by the government, "said Theo Klein ...."

Mali:

Northern Mali had fallen in March-April 2012 under the guise of jihadist groups linked to Al Qaeda. Mali: "worrying" security despite the means deployed 14:30 Security in Mali remains "worrying" despite the means deployed and the latest progress on the peace agreement, said in Bamako on Saturday the Head of peacekeeping operations "We are far too frequently attacked by armed groups," Hervé Ladsous told a press conference. The UN Mission in Mali, which has been deployed since July 2013, (MINUSMA) is the most costly humanitarian peacekeeping force in Somalia since 1993-95, with more than 70 peacekeepers killed in operation. "The (peace) process is far from over" , Despite the May-June 2015 agreement between Bamako and the groups supporting it and the former Tuareg-dominated rebellion in the north of the country, Mr. Ladsous continued.Arrived Friday night in Bamako, Expressed after a meeting with Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a few days after the end of his duties. He was to be replaced in April by his French compatriot Jean-Pierre Lacroix. Northern Mali had fallen in March-April 2012 under the guise of jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda. These groups were largely driven out of this vast region by an international military operation launched in January 2013, at the initiative of France, an operation that is still going on. However, whole zones of the country are still not under the control of the Malian, French and UN forces (Minusma), regularly targeted by attacks despite the signing of the peace agreement, supposed to isolate the jihadists definitively ...... "

BURKINA FASO :

Through this partnership, UBA Chad, will extend the coverage of its payment services and democratize the quality of the banking service offered to the Chadian peoples UBA Tchad and Express Union Tchad, signed in the 8the of March , 2017, a partnership within the framework of their development policies. The contents of the agreement initialed in the meeting room of the General Management of UBA Bank in N'Djamena, (in the presence of the two Managing Directors, Aliyu SALAMI, the GM of United Bank for Africa, Chad and Paul FOBA the GG of Express Union Tchad ) has given the Panafrican Bank the task of making Visa prepaid cards, ATMs and Electronic Payment Terminals available in all 40 Express Union branches across the country, in addition to the Its clientele. Thanks to this partnership, UBA Tchad will extend the coverage of its payment services on the one hand and democratize the quality of the banking service offered to the Chadian populations, of which it is concerned with development...."

 

 

Crédit : IMPERIUM MEDIA