![]() ![]() This year, US, Germany and the UK began to do so. Protesters shout as they face riot police during anti-government protests in Freetown, Sierra Leone Aug Return of stolen artįor decades, West African nations have demanded the return of artefacts looted by former colonial powers. Ghana’s cedi became the worst-performing currency against the dollar in 2022 and inflation reached a 21-year high of 40 percent, leading to the International Monetary fund ( IMF) granting it a $3bn loan bailout. ![]() In November, Senegal had to release $762m to tackle soaring living costs and put price caps on essential goods. Twenty-one protesters and six police officers died in the protests. In Sierra Leone, economic woes led to street protesters demanding President Julius Bio step down. In November, Nigeria’s inflation rate hit a 17-year-high of 21.47 percent and the number of people living in poverty rose to 133 million, or 63 percent of the population, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Here are 10 of the top issues that defined the socio-political landscape across West Africa in 2022. West Africa, with its fair share of domestic troubles, was also impacted. That led to a global disruption in the supply of certain commodities including wheat, causing a collapse for many economies worldwide. Just as the region was recovering from the post-COVID-19 economic fallout of 2020, Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Against comparable freeware, Timbuktu Pro looks lackluster.Lagos, Nigeria – This year has been a generally turbulent one for West Africa – with a few bright spots. Overall, Timbuktu Pro is a well-designed application, but its Mac origins mean that the PC's communications flexibility is overlooked. Other features not seen on competing packages for the PC include a notify function, which allows a user to be told when a remote machine is back online and `available.' Graphics and documentation on the software are excellent. This curious feature probably stems from the Mac editions, since the client/server concept was not introduced on the Mac until a decade ago. There's no client version as such - users must install a copy of the software on each machine requiring a connection. Once installed, the software can be configured quickly for a variety of communications infrastructures, including dialup, DSL, LAN/WAN and RAS setups. Our initial worry was that this facility is a hacker's aide, but the service is opt-in and can be limited to specific groups of users, so Netopia has clearly thought through the security implications. ![]() This allows users to find the IP address of another user on, say, a dialup internet connection. Netopia maintains a dynamic IP address lookup facility based on users' email addresses. What is present are the wealth of graphics and security features seen on the Mac edition screen blanking, password ageing, master password protection user level privileges - the list is extensive. Scripting facilities, available on the Mac version, and audit files (although there is a basic log file) are not present. It is only when you compare Timbuktu Pro with other PC remote access software that you will realize what's missing. You can, for example, chat and interact across both applications, although this product has a file transfer facility. Whilst flicking through the features of the Windows XP package, we were struck by the similarities between the software's features and those of the remote assistance option of Windows XP. The PC version, while functionally similar to the Mac edition, appears to be something of an afterthought, since functionality is limited. Timbuktu Pro, which is available in both Mac and Windows, is clearly aimed at Mac users.
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