Quartz Daily Brief—Europe and Africa edition—Apple hails Didi, TTIP review, Facebook’s teenage hackers

What to watch for today and over the weekend

Barack Obama hosts Nordic leaders. Leaders from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden will visit Washington. Russia is the elephant (or is it bear?) in the room: Moscow has been increasingly aggressive toward its Nordic neighbors and performed a provocative fly-by of US ships in the Baltic last month.

EU trade ministers review the TTIP. Meeting in Brussels, they’ll go over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations with the US, amid negative perceptions about the deal across Europe.

Nigeria hosts a regional security summit. The leaders of Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria will be joined by French president Francois Hollande on Saturday in Abuja. They’ll discuss ongoing threats posed by the militant group Boko Haram. For the full article click here 

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