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The town of Bafoussam is set to become the first Smart City in Cameroon, following the signing of a convention with the Cameroon Telecommunications, CAMTEL.

A study conducted by the Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies (ECSS) indicates that industrial exports rose by 60 percent between 2008 and 2019 recording $18.38 billion up from $11.04 billion.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat said his ministry is implementing Digital Egypt Builders Initiative (DEBI) as part of an integrated strategy to create cadres the local and international labor markets need.

The federal government has disclosed that by taking advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Nigeria has the capacity to export $3 billion worth of derivatives from cocoa and $300 million from the sale of the raw unprocessed commodity.

The China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), is the Chinese partner in developing Morocco’s first smart city, Tangier Tech.

The money was handed over to the farmers by the Minister of Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana during a ceremony that took place last Friday March 26 in Makenene.

The recent development comes as a relief, following a mandarin shortage in Morocco in 2019. The Technical Committee of the Association of Citrus Producers noted that Citrus fruit production has significantly declined, impacting negatively on the 2018-2019 citrus exports campaign.

The train travels at a stately speed, taking more than two and a half hours to traverse little more than 150 kilometres (90 miles) of countryside in southern Nigeria.

Though it may be dominating headlines, so-called Chinese “vaccine diplomacy” is only one facet of Beijing’s outreach program and foreign policy, especially amidst reinvigorated efforts to get its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to take-off in a post-pandemic economy.