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1. Political parties sign peace accord
2. Court orders govt to compensate 16 Rwandese, Ugandan businessmen
3. TAEF condemns Sudan over newspapers seizure
4. La Nouvelle Tribune shuts down
5. Enters deal with China, Court removes age limit on presidential election
6. Over 50 legislators decamp to opposition parties

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Total, Worldline enter 8-country accord

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The Total and Worldline have entered a tripple binding accord on technology, commercial and financing with African Fintech InTouch, reports ITRealms.

Under the agreements, ITRealms gathered that Total and Worldline will support the deployment of the Guichet Unique solution in eight African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, the Republic of Guinea and Senegal.

Guichet Unique provides retail networks with a unique customer-friendly device that makes it possible to securely and seamlessly accept all means of payment, including mobile money, payments through private label cards and cash, and to distribute third party services, such as subscriptions to media content, bill payment, money transfer, card top-up, banking and insurance.

ITRealms also gathered that the solution is already deployed in over 170 Total service stations and more than 600 independent points of sale in Senegal, the Guichet Unique platform manages more than 30,000 transactions per day in that country.

Nonye Dom/GEE

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