Senegal Scraps Akon City Plans for Scaled-Back Tourist Resort Project
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Lizzie Crook
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Summary
Senegal's government has abandoned plans for Akon City, a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency city project led by Akon, in favor of a scaled-back tourist resort overseen by Senegal's tourism development body Sapco.
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· 2 pulledAkon City has been cancelled in favour of a scaled-back tourist resort project that will be overseen by Senegal's tourism development body Sapco.
The decision comes five years after Senegalese-American singer Akon initiated the ambitious project.
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