Quotes

‘Parliament is being used to weaken the President.’ 

Aminata Toure, Senegal’s presidential coalition leader after the National Assembly passed a Bill revising the balance of power between the country’s executive and Parliament 

‘As fighting flares up again, the warring parties in Mali are once again carrying out grave abuses against civilians, repeating former patterns of harming civilians.’ 

Ilaria Allegrozzi, senior Sahel researcher at Human Rights Watch 

‘We did not enter into a specimen-sharing agreement.' 

Mohamed Mchengerwa, Tanzanian Health Minister after the country signed a $1.3bn health agreement with the US 

‘The AI opportunity for Africa is significant, and Google is committed to doing our part working with Africans to help Africa realise it.’ 

James Manyika, Google's senior vice-president for research and technology, on Google exceeding a five-year target to invest $1bn in Africa