Kenya, where tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft operate, wants to keep its own digital tax in place for now instead of adopting the OECD's new global minimum rate on corporate profits. Nairobi believes it cannot afford to lose the revenue at a time when state coffers are strained.
Some in the new Senegalese president's entourage want Mamadou Ndiaye to stay on in his job as chief of protocol, in line with tradition. But Pape Mada Ndour, a former civil servant close to Bassirou Diomaye Faye's PASTEF party, is the favourite for the position.