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OA News: December 17-31, 2013
December 31, 2013 ♦ News
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Rounding out the African ICT news stories for 2013 are 122 stories from 29 countries.

OA News: December 10-16, 2013
December 17, 2013 ♦ News
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This week’s African Internet/ICT news round-up consists of 95 stories from 28+ countries.

Face-to-face media usage surveys in Mali and Somalia shed light on Internet habits
December 16, 2013 ♦ Statistics
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Results of nationally representative, face-to-face surveys tell of growing mobile internet usage in Mali and Somalia.

West and Central African governments eye fibre network expansion in the next 2-3 years
December 11, 2013 ♦ Broadband
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Not all African nations are at the same state of network evolution: some have national fibre backbones yet most are lacking in scale. Moreover, few ministries boast a comprehensive broadband plan that guides network expansion. Still, many governments, particularly those in West and Central Africa, dream of substantial bandwidth for …

OA News: December 2-9, 2013
December 9, 2013 ♦ News
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This week’s African Internet/ICT news round-up consists of 93 stories from 21+ countries.

Alliance for Affordable Internet Affordability Report highlights successes in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria
December 9, 2013 ♦ ICT Policy & Statistics
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The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has just released “The Affordability Report 2013” which attempts to understand why only some countries have succeeded in creating universal Internet access.