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• Senegal: 'The Web is Very, Very, Very Powerful' February 23, 2012
  [RNW Africa] "I will vote for Wade, of course!" shouts Amadou, a young taxi driver, taking me to my hotel in downtown Dakar. "Wade has worked hard and that's how it works here." We drive past large posters of the various presidential candidates as Amadou points them out: Abdoulaye Wade, Macky Sall, Moustapha Niasse and Ousmane Tanor […]
• Africa: Kagame Calls for IFAD's Member States to 'Be Bold' February 22, 2012
  [IFAD] Rome - Development leaders and heads of state or government gathered for the opening of the 35th Session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to discuss the world's most urgent problem: how to feed the world and protect the planet at the same time. […]
• Nigeria: Number of Phones Hits Over 95 Million - NCC February 22, 2012
  [Leadership] Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah, has said that the number of phones in Nigeria has hit 95, 886, 714 phones. […]
• Nigeria: Country's Debt, Economy On Front Burner At London Conference February 22, 2012
  [Leadership] Nigeria needs to keep watch on its domestic debt in order not to crowd out the private sector from the domestic debt market and thus stifle the real sector. Jide Akintunde, organiser of the Nigeria Development and Finance Forum (NDFF) who stated this, added that many Nigerians may be getting uncomfortable with Nigeria's current debt profile […]
• Africa: Youth in Agriculture Statement at 2012 Farmers' Forum February 22, 2012
  [IFAD] Rome - The following is a synthesis of the deliberations conducted at the 'Youth in Agriculture' session of the 2012 Farmers' Forum Global Meeting, IFAD, Rome. […]