Here are seven key findings on the Middle East and North Africa region. Social media is growing fast"Internet users grew by 15 percent across the region," Kemp observes. Territories witnessing notable growth in internet users in the past year include Libya, up 33 percent, and Palestine, up 18 percent. But in the less populous Palestine, growth translates into 468,000 new internet users, while Libya's growth represents 800,000 more people going online. That figure amounts to 7.78 million mobile connections, in a nation of four million people.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 10, 2017 10:00 UTC