It looks like Senegal has officially abandoned its plans to develop a new city with help from Akon and his cryptocurrency.

Plans for a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal, envisioned by U.S.-born singer Akon and inspired by the fictional Wakanda ...

Celebrity singer-songerwriter Akon has been left red-faced after his ambitious plans to build a futuristic seaside city to the tune of £4.4bn has descended into chaos ...

Plans for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will work on something ...

Akon's grand dream of Akon City, a cutting-edge metropolis inspired by Wakanda, has met an untimely demise as the Senegalese ...

Plans for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will work on something ...

Plans for "Akon City," a futuristic metropolis modeled to be a "real-life Wakanda," made waves when the public first learned ...

Senegal government have confirmed that plans for a futuristic city in Senegal, proposed by singer Akon, have officially been ...

The Senegalese government has confirmed that instead of the ambitious plan, it had been scrapped to make way for something ...

Akon announced a cryptocurrency called Akoin and plans for a $6 billion Wakanda-style metropolis in his native country Senegal. Now, seven years later, Senegal has confirmed that the city will not be ...

The Senegalese tourism agency SAPCO, which had partnered with Akon, confirmed that the Akon City project is no longer moving forward. Its head, Serigne Mamadou Mboup, told the BBC that a new, more ...