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Somalia’s e-visa data breach has spiraled from a technical failure into a national test of digital governance, exposing at least 35,000 applicant records and prompting warnings from the United Kingdom and the United States. Launched Sept. 1, 2025, as a flagship Digital Public Good meant to secure borders and modernize services, the platform instead revealed how fragile the country’s digital public infrastructure remains without guardrails, oversight and trust. At stake is more than cybersecurity. The incident has triggered…

In Paris, the Court of Auditors on Thursday morning delivered a report on France's civilian and military actions in the G5 Sahel and their relationship to official development assistance. Conclusions: there are gaps in the monitoring of development assistance in the Sahel and security and development measures suffer from a lack of coordination…