Month: November 2024

 Over 15,000 attendees were welcomed to the 27th annual Africa Tech Festival (www.AfricaTechFestival.com) by South African Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Hon. Solly Malatsi. The Department is an official partner of this year’s event, which features more than 300 exhibitors and 400 speakers representing all facets of the tech ecosystem. Emphasising a shared vision of a digitally connected, inclusive, and prosperous Africa, leveraging technology to drive economic and social […]

 President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in the capital, Rio de Janeiro. Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Ahmed Fahmy, said that at the beginning of the meeting, President El-Sisi expressed gratitude to President Lula da Silva for inviting Egypt to participate in the G20 summit this year, demonstrating Brazil's appreciation of Egypt's leverage in the […]

 This Sunday, 17 November 2024, 7 million 33 850 Senegalese are voting to elect 165 deputies to the National Assembly using a voting system combining two methods: the first past-the-post and the proportional representation systems. Of the 165 seats in contention, one hundred and twelve (112) are being filled under the first past-the-post system, including fifteen (15) seats for the diaspora, while 53 other seats are being elected under the […]

 Borno state, in northeastern Nigeria, has been severely impacted by recent floods, which have displaced more than 400 000 people and led to 37 deaths. The flooding, mostly affecting the municipal area of Maiduguri, the state’s capital, has also caused significant damage to agricultural land and infrastructure, including health facilities. Almost 90 000 vulnerable people have been forced to take shelter in temporary camps with limited access to food, clean water and […]

 In the context of the legislative elections of 17 November 2024 in Senegal, Ambassador Francis Alex Tsegah, Head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) EOM and Ambassador Aristide Calixte Mbari, Head of the African Union (AU) EOM, , met on Friday 15 November 2024 in Dakar with the 104 observers who will be deployed in the field as part of the joint ECOWAS-AU observation mission. The two […]