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Senegal's National Assembly green-lit an 81-billion-franc budget for the Communications Ministry's 2026 plan, and almost 60 percent goes toward tech infrastructure. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko want the country to run as a digital hub by 2034, with plans to...

Namibia finally got its electronic securities system running after years of sitting around waiting for old regulations to get updated. The Namibia Securities Exchange teamed up with Bank of Namibia and NAMFISA to launch the Central Securities Depository, which ditches paper certificates for a...

Cape Verde wrapped up its sixth Digital Scholarship program at Praia Technology Park with three startups taking home the win: Tournament Tubaron, Nikopay, and Cabopay. The Ministry of Digital Economy ran the three-month bootcamp with Pro-Entrepreneurship and IEFP to pump out viable tech...

Mozambique just made data governance a constitutional thing, and the government is treating it like a big deal for their whole digital transformation project. The Communications Ministry rolled out the National Data Governance Policy at a workshop in Maputo, with INTIC Chairman Lourino Chemane...

Chad's telecom minister just told the UN and UNHCR that his government wants to wire up refugee camps with internet and solar-powered systems. The country is dealing with over 1.5 million displaced people who fled from Sudan's conflict, and officials think getting them online will help with...

Retired general Krasimir Petrov says the Interior Ministry keeps screwing up worse and worse. The former counter-terrorism unit boss thinks police leadership wanted to dodge responsibility when vandals wrecked stuff after the December protests, and he figures letting property get trashed beats...

People hit the streets again in multiple Bulgarian cities because they want the government gone. Stara Zagora and Vidin both saw protests, with crowds chanting for resignations and saying their wallets are getting lighter while nothing gets better. Around 50 people showed up in rainy Vidin at...

Alexander Rusanov bailed on his Control Council gig with We Continue the Change because the party voted with GERB and DPS-New Beginning to block a euro referendum. The former council head said his party talks big about fighting corruption, but then lines up with the exact politicians they call...

Former Deputy Economy Minister Milen Keremedchiev told NOVA NEWS that the patched-together budget does not give him confidence, and he is more worried about what happens in 2027. He says the government needs a three-year economic plan because 2026 is loaded with expenses, but nobody knows where...

Rumen Petkov from ABV says the Files Commission needs to shut down even though it means losing 10 million, and he thinks BSP has no reason to change its mind about the Soros Commission. The former Interior Minister went on bTV and said passing the budget was the right move because entering the...

Political scientist Kaloyan Metodiev from Nepokorna, Bulgaria, went off on Facebook about the government being totally clueless. He says Boyko Borisov still doesn't get why people are mad, Peevski keeps playing ethnic politics that nobody cares about anymore, and Toshko Yordanov straight-up...

Vladislav Panev threw shade on Facebook about the revised budget after the government claimed it wouldn't jack up taxes or contributions. The plan bumps maximum social security income to 2,300 euros monthly and gives state workers across the board a 10% raise without any actual reforms happening...

GERB boss Boyko Borisov dropped a TikTok flex about Budget 2026, promising a completely fresh spending plan before the holidays. The party wants to axe dividend taxes and social security contribution bumps while decoupling salaries, and Borisov hyped a 10% raise for everyone's paychecks and...

Sofia Mayor Vasil Terziev posted on Facebook that thousands of commuters from Novi Iskar, Pancharevo, Vitosha, Bankya, and Ovcha Kupel won't need highway stickers for their daily grind into the city. The municipality plans to sign a deal with the Road Infrastructure Agency for shared upkeep of...

Bulgaria's e-Government Minister Valentin Mundrov hit up Brussels to chat with EU Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva about building a centralized national cybersecurity system that locks down data sovereignty. The government wants the ministry coordinating protection for national systems against...

Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said retail chains haven't been doing sketchy price hikes tied to euro adoption based on summer data from the competition commission's sectoral review. The government's advance monitoring and partnerships with stores apparently kept things legit during the...

Agriculture Minister Georgi Tahov told officials at a competition commission meeting that farmers need to band together because cooperatives give producers better negotiating power and market access. The ministry counted 68 recognized producer groups mostly working in fruits, vegetables, and...

Ombudsman Velislava Delcheva called out banks for making it weirdly hard to grab euro coin starter kits, and she fired off a complaint to the Bulgarian National Bank after citizens started flooding her office with gripes. Some banks apparently only sell the 20-lev packages to their existing...

Bulgaria's economy showed workers cranking out 0.7% more GDP per person compared to last year's third quarter, and the National Statistical Institute dropped data showing 3.7 million people employed across the country. Each worker generated roughly 16,815 lev of GDP, with about 42.70 lev created...

Dr. Velikova told reporters that winter heating with wood and increased car use during cold months wreck air quality, and fine dust particles like PM2.5 and PM10 mess with immune system function by triggering oxidative stress and chronic inflammation. Pollutants hit the lungs deep and spread...