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SENEGAL: A Senegalese woman: the new World Bank Resident Representative in Burkina Faso
The new World Bank Resident Representative in Burkina Faso, Ms. Maimouna Mbow Fam, officially took office on Monday, June 1, 2020. Prior to her...
AIR SENEGAL – Big scare on volunteering HC407 to New York
Another bad publicity for the national airline that. according to the newspaper Libération, accumulates losses and delays despite a change in...
NIGERIA – the authorities will launch the eNaira this Monday 25 October
After banning cryptomonay transactions last February, Nigeria announced in August its partnership with Bitt Inc, a fintech based in Barbados, to...
IVORY COAST: Loan from France for the construction of the Abidjan metro.
On the occasion of the FCFA's change project by Eco on Saturday December 21, 2019, France and Côte d'Ivoire proceeded the same day in...
GUINEA – Authorities demand repatriation of mining revenues
Moussa Magassouba, Minister of Mines and Geology of Guinea, asked mining companies operating in Guinea to repatriate 50% of export earnings....
NIGERIA: Country wants 8th natural gas liquefaction train
With the aim of further developing the upstream gas, the Nigerian authorities and their various partners intend to commit to building...
BENIN: The price of shea nuts is set at 100 CFA francs per kilo.
The council of ministers of 6 September ruled on the value of shea nuts. The price per kilogram is set at 100 CFA...
SENEGAL – Coumba Dioukhané received the 2021 SHE “Sophisticated, High networth, Excellence Award” in...
Coumba Dioukhané is a committed and ambitious model of a woman, a personality determined as we like. She is characterized by...
SENEGAL – TER DE DAKAR: Deficit, Sncf Tone Down
A year after its inauguration, the TER is well behind its financial goals but also its attendance. A year ago, the...
SENEGAL: Government adopts a 2018 budget of $ 6.7 billion, more than a third...
In Senegal, the government adopted the Finance Bill for 2018 with a budget of CFAF 3,709.10 billion (about $ 6.7 billion), compared with CFAF...
SENEGAL: Ndeye Diarra Diobaye Associate Director at Euros Agency
International agencies are increasingly coveting the African market. In this intense race, the communication component is essential to maintain a solid foundation...
BOTSWANA: Contract to purchase 2MW of electricity from coal bed methane.
Botswana is in a dynamic of energy self-sufficiency. The country now wants to put an end to electricity imports and use coal-bed...
ENERGY: Oil and gas are expected to cover more than 50% of global energy...
Many countries are increasingly turning to renewable energies such as hydro, wind, solar or biomass resources to reduce their consumption of...
SENEGAL: 10,000 informal jobs threatened by Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
The Human Geography Laboratory (LABOGEHU) of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar and the Global Labour Institute of Manchester have...
MAURITIUS: Colossal projects with total private sector costs of Rs 66 billion
The High Level Committee met in July 2020 to take stock of the progress of major private sector investment projects in...
IVORY COAST: BJKD Award Winners for Young Entrepreneurship Known.
The BJKD prize for young entrepreneurship was launched on 02 September 2017, with more than 847 participants at the start. 10 entrepreneurs were selected...
SENEGAL – Victorine Sarr, founder of Lyvv Cosmetics
Victorine Sarr is a marketing professional with 8 years of corporate experience with multinationals like Apple and Loreal. In 2015 she...
RWANDA – Kwita Izina 2022: 20 baby gorillas baptized
Sauti Sol! Gilberto Silva! Naomi Schiff! Youssou Ndour! Didier Drogba!... Here are some names of the personalities who took part this...
SENEGAL – Tysilio inaugurates a solar station near Sédhiou in Casamance
Tysilio Senegal, a subsidiary of the French group, has just inaugurated the 39.68 kWp Tysilio solar station (TSS) in Sefa, near...
IVORY COAST: Akinwumi Adesina named Champion of the Great Green Wall Initiative
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, was named Resource Mobilization Champion of the Great Green Wall Initiative...
SENEGAL: Thione Niang builds an agricultural institute
Social Entrepreneur Thione NIANG builds the Institute of Agriculture and Leadership. it brings together two major pillars of development: agriculture and...
GHANA: The country wants to do without IMF money.
Ghana will do without the credits of the International Monetary Fund. He plans to finance his budget through his own revenue. This is the...
AFRICA ENERGY WEEK – Africa unable to host these large-scale events
Africa has always been able to host large-scale energy events, and African Energy Week has proven that. Despite the challenges posed...
EXPORTS – African leaders to unlock exports
African leaders involved in the peace negotiations on Ukraine have called for the unblocking of Russian grain and fertilizer exports to...
NIGERIA – Naira, which has already lost 171% of its value, is heading for...
The Naira, the currency of Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy in terms of GDP, has lost much of its value over the...
SENEGAL: OFNAC submits the 2017 and 2018 reports to the president.
The statement of Mody Niang, retired inspector who prefaced the work of journalist Pape Alé Niang, reverted to the last unpublished reports of the...
EGYPT – $2.5 billion by 2025 for seawater desalination
Egypt plans to build 17 seawater desalination units by 2025. To do this, the government, through the private sector, hopes to...
GABON: A new road Loubomo-Mougara inaugurated.
Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Thursday opened the Loubomo-Mougagara road on the Tchibanga-Mayumba road in the province.
He was accompanied by Prime Minister Emmanuel...
SENEGAL: Signing of the financing of the port of Ndayane
Senegal’s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Economy, Alioune Ndiaye, and Dubai Port World signed an agreement on Tuesday, December 22, 2020,...
GUINEA: Beny Steinmetz sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Geneva Criminal Court
The case dates back to 2008 when the Franco-Israeli businessman was awarded Blocks 1 and 2 of Simandou by Lansana Conté,...
SENEGAL: Rokhaya Diop gives birth to “Urbidolls”, the black and mixed dolls.
Rokhaya Diop is Franco-Senegalese. After studying accounting, she immediately entered the workforce. She is currently working in a large social protection group as a...
GABON: The government will spend 4,700 billion CFA in three years to boost the...
The coronavirus pandemic has further weakened, as it has throughout the world, and its impacts on the economies of African countries...
COTE D’IVOIRE: Where is the little change? “Do you have the exact change? “.
In Abidjan, the Ivorian economic capital, you can not spend a day without hearing this sentence. To believe that the small currency has disappeared...
SENEGAL: The rails soon rehabilitated.
The Minister of Transport, Oumar Youm, announced this Friday January 10, 2020 the execution of 13 structuring projects which will link all the national...
SENEGAL – The Regional Express Train finally put into circulation on 27 December 2021
The President of the Republic of Senegal Macky Sall proceeded to the inauguration of the Regional Express Train on Monday, December...
