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There have been celebrations and congratulations in Senegal for anti establishment candidate Bassirou diamaye Faye who looks set to have won Sunday’s presidential election.
Despite a rocky run up to the March 24th vote that featured a last minute postponement to the original February 25th date, protests, a reversal by the constitutional court and serious concerns about the state of senegal’s democratic institutions, the country looks set for another peaceful, straightforward handover of power as the ruling coalition’s candidate and president Macky sall have already commended Diomaye Faye on his apparent win..
Nigeria’s launched a criminal investigation into the global cryptocurrency exchange platform, Binance.. Two of it’s top executives were detained as the government brought new charges on tax evasion but one, a British kenyan national, has reportedly escaped and Nigeria’s reportedly trying to secure an international arrest warrant for him throuhg interpol..
The Malian government has launched a new label to designate its meat products and to help boost the local economy. The meat/livestock sector represent the country’s third most important export, after gold and cotton.. Mostly exported live, the Malian government hopes that the “Mali Sogo” label – will promote the processing of meat products within the country and their exports. It also aims to enhance the value of Malian meat in the eyes of importing countries.
