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...
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...
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...
SENEGAL: President Macky Sall lifts ban on the export of peanut seeds
The President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, took the decision to lift the ban on the export of peanut...
ALGERIA: 1000 MW of solar power plants to be built in 2021
Algeria wants to diversify its energy mix by building 1,000 MW of solar power plants in 2021. The country plans to...
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,...
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...
SENEGAL: The commissioning of the Regional Express Train scheduled for 2021
On Monday, December 07, 2020, Mansour Faye, Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Disengagement, was in the National Assembly to defend...
AFRICA: Ghana, Ivory Coast accuse multinationals of chocolate
The two West African countries, Ghana and Ivory Coast, which represent two thirds of the world cocoa market, have launched a...
ALGERIA: Air Algeria resumes its domestic and repatriation flights
The Algerian national airline company announced this Monday, November 30, 2020, the resumption of repatriation flights for Algerians stranded abroad since...
SENEGAL: Bus Rapid Transit: a revolution in the transport sector
In a dynamic of modernization and rehabilitation of road transport, Senegalese President Macky Sall has accelerated the work of Bus Rapid...
SENEGAL: Signature of a new 5-year fishing protocol with the European Union
The European Parliament approved on November 18, 2020 a new fisheries agreement protocol between the European Union and Senegal. Negotiations began...
SENEGAL: Tax evasion: The country loses 92 988 000 000 Fcfa
In a report released to the public, the financial and economic information site relating to the Stock Exchange in the 8...
BENIN: Solar energy: Construction work for the first Photovoltaic Solar Power Plant launched
Thursday, November 19, 2020 was a day full of activities for the Minister of Energy, Mr. Dona Jean-Claude HOUSSOU. This day...
MADAGASCAR: Two projects totalling $54 million
Funding from technical and financial partners is effectively used in development projects. The government enjoys the trust of donors. The Minister...
SENEGAL: Bus Rapid Transit: a revolution in the transport sector
In a dynamic of modernization and rehabilitation of road transport, Senegalese President Macky Sall has accelerated the work of Bus Rapid...
ALGERIA: The import of vehicles less than 3 years old put on hold
The importation of vehicles less than three years old has been put on hold but not canceled. Ferhat Aït Ali Braham...
BENIN: Land use and transport planning: Hervé Hehomey and Paul Koffi Koffi review the...
It is by a working session held this Thursday, October 08 at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport that Paul Koffi...
ALGERIA: 5 to 6 billion USD for the port of El Hamdania
The port of El Hamdania in the center of Cherchell, the municipality of the wilaya of Tipaza will be set up....
SENEGAL: The TER soon operational
Dakar and its surroundings will soon welcome their new jewel, the TER, the regional express train. This road infrastructure will be...
MADAGASCAR: Resumption of flights between Madagascar and Reunion in October
It was the Prime Minister of Madagascar Christian Ntsay who announced it: regional air links with the sister islands, including Reunion, will...
SENEGAL: African Debt: Mimi receives Initiative Committee
The Initiative Committee on the Cancellation of the African Debt continues its meetings to enlist the maximum number of leaders in the fight for...
AFRICA: $53 million African Development Bank grant for Covid-19 response in Gambia, Liberia and...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org/) approved on Friday, 24 July, in Abidjan, a multi-country grant of $53.25 million (38.15...
SENEGAL : Schengen area: Senegal still “undesirable”
On 30 July the Council of Europe reviewed the list of countries in respect of which its Member States should progressively lift travel restrictions...
MADAGASCAR: Rural development: 106 new agricultural technicians to support farmers
The Ecole de Formation de Techniciens Agricoles (EFTA) has just trained 106 students in this field. The latter took a two-year training course at...
SENEGAL: FCFA 29 billion increase in DFS loans in the first quarter of 2020
Outstanding loans granted by Senegal’s decentralized financial systems (SFD) to customers at the end of the first quarter of 2020 increased by FCFA 28.8...
ALGERIA: The country is preparing to relaunch a mega-project in the East of the...
Algeria is preparing to relaunch its two mega-projects of exploitation and transformation of phosphate in the east of the country and that of iron...
Tunisia: withdrawal from the list of countries at high risk of money laundering
The European Commission (EC) has informed the Tunisian embassy in Brussels. This is the official withdrawal of Tunisia from the list of high-risk third...
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...
RD CONGO: “Ice Karité”, organic and artisanal ice cream with shea butter!
The young entrepreneur Benjamin Mampuya of Congolese origin started from the observation that shea butter is a product very used in African households to...
AFRICA: The eWTP platform of the Chinese group Alibaba will grow in Africa
The global e-commerce platform (eWTP) launched by founder Jack Ma of the Chinese group Alibaba launched in 2016 in China and then in Africa...
SENEGAL: 43 billion for Air Senegal
The air transport sector is heavily impacted by coronavirus. The figures released by the Minister of Tourism and Air Transport speak volumes. According to...
UGANDA: The country could become a major player in oil and gas in Africa
Uganda affirms its intention to become a major player in oil and gas. This will automatically catapult Uganda into the largest crude oil producer...
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...
AFRICA: The African economy is doing well.
Projected at 3.9% in 2020 compared to 3.4% in 2019, Africa’s economic growth is showing good forecasts according to the prospects of the African...
