Author: Adama WADE

Publishing Director of Kapital Afrik. In the African economic press for 17 years, Adama Wade had to work in Morocco in several editors. Captain at the Long Course of the Merchant Navy and holder of a Masters in Organizational Communication, Adama Wade has published an essay, "The Myth of Tarzan", which describes the geopolitical complex of Africa.

Five African countries are invited to the G7 which opens this 24th of August in Biarritz against the backdrop of the fires of the Amazon rainforest and the critics of Emmanuel Macron accusing the Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro of having “lied” about his commitments in favor of climate. Observers will watch for the unpredictable answers of US President Donald Trump, who is quick to support his Brazilian ally, of which he is the model. The fires of the forest of the Amazon, 2. 500 fires in the last 48 hours according to the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil (INPE),…

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It’s the prestigious Financial Time that reveals it. The British newspaper, voice of the English establishment despite its takeover by the Japanese Nikkei, estimated on August 13, 2019 that Rwanda’s figures on poverty are “probably” manipulated. Official statistics from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda showed a 6% drop in poverty between 2011 and 2014. A report by the African Development Bank (ADB) entitled Intregated Household Living Conditions dating from 2015 goes in the same direction. This, while since 2015, the Oxford Policy Management Institute (OPM), mentioned in several development reports on Rwanda, has disassociated itself from the official…

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The West African giant was sentenced on 16 August by the Business and Property Courts of the United Kingdom to pay 9 billion dollars (8.1 billion euros), or 20% of its foreign exchange reserves , to Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P & ID), a company based in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands, for non-respect of contractual commitments. The facts explained by the company on its website back in 2010 when the entity signs an agreement with Nigeria to build a gas processing plant in Calabar, a coastal town near the Cameroon border. The agreement provided for…

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“A historic turning point full of promise for industries on condition that we prepare for it …” The African Continental Free Trade Area (CAFTA) has entered its operational phase at the end of the 12th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) held in Niamey (Niger) this weekend. For Louis S. AMEDE, the Director General of the National Federation of Industries and Services of Côte d’Ivoire (FNISCI), the African market offers enormous opportunities to Ivorian industry but provided they prepare well. Interview. Let’s go, the ZLECAf has entered its operational phase! Exactly! And we could consider this a historic turning…

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Unlocking the Potential of Africa – Ideas by Alexander HAMILTON, Cédric Mbeng Mezui’s new book, was presented at the Palais Brongniart, Place de la Bourse in Paris, on April 05, 2019. The audience included industry professionals private, the institutional, the academics of the place of Paris and all these economists, thinkers and strategists on the lookout for new trends. The author’s bias on Alexander Hamilton’s ideas, to the detriment of those of Malthus, who are back in force when it comes to reporting the flow of migration to African demography, is daring. intellectual. The author considers that during this 21st…

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Died on March 23, 2015 at the age of 91, Lee Kuan Yew was anything but a Western Democrat, a term he opposed to Asian consensus democracy. The founding father of Singapore had imposed on his fellow citizens the choice of discipline before freedom, the right to bread before the right to vote. Singaporeans could choose their grain at noon, but not their shop stewards. The triptych of this legendary leader whose diatribes have often moved London is made of discipline, authority and merit. Singapore became a thriving military barracks whose supermarkets were run by the Asian and world jet…

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What is this old man on a wheelchair that young people today reject so well to Algeria. Bouteflika is this country rich but unable to transform, promising but tired, educated but undermined by unemployment, sovereignist but with elites who have, since the first gusts of revolution, acquired French, Swiss and Canadian nationalities while now their people in a forced Arabization that will have resulted in the French language, this spoils war according Kateb Yacine, a luxury product. Of the living symbol that young Africans discovered in the newspapers of the time with a certain revolutionary romanticism, there remains Bouteflika only…

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Observers note a rise in strength of the agency UMOA-Securities at the expense of the bond compartment of the Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM) that has not experienced the boom expected corporate. Emissions from the Sifca agribusiness, the CRRH mortgage refinancing fund, Cofina mesofinance and, recently, the Senegalese electricity supplier Sénelec are slow to emulate. As for the States, they prefer to fall back on the market by auctioning at low rates with short maturities. A market that has the merit of being more competitive in terms of costs and procedures. The objective of the director general of UMOA-Titles, Adrien Diouf,…

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Held on March 31 in Tunis under the cover of a wheel (some emirs had not turned off the engine of their aircraft), the 30th summit of the Arab League was rich in salamalecs and hiccups of any kind. The wall of sound was passed when the old Mauritanian anthem was played instead of the new one. The Mauritanian diplomats accredited in Tunis, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the protocol of the President had to undergo this hymn of another century until the end. The presidential anger shakes more than one member of his delegation while Tunisian…

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The insurance sector in Senegal is under tension. The insurance company Amsa multiplies the maneuvers not to join the Oil & Gas Risks Insurance Pool of Senegal. As a reminder, the grouping of insurance companies approved on the Senegalese market, which aims to cover oil risks according to the principle of co-insurance, is a vertical organization with SEN-RE and the International Reinsurance market. The approach, a first in the area of ​​the Interafrican Conference of Insurance Markets (CIMA *), went in the direction of building the capacity of Local Content of the private insurance sector in Senegal. President Macky SALL…

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The appointment of Franco-Senegalese Sibeth Ndiaye as spokesperson for the French government was unanimously hailed by the French press. Born in Senegal in 1979, the only survivor of the close guard of President Emmanuel Macron, finds himself in one of the most symbolic roles of the republic. Such a situation would be hard to come to in Africa, a place where national codes, criteria and determinants of appointments in official positions are enclosed in explicit and implicitly biological principles. “The nationality laws of some African countries explicitly restrict the right to nationality on racial or ethnic grounds, and in other…

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On March 8, 2019, S & P Global Ratings confirmed the long-term foreign currency notes “B-” and short-term foreign exchange and local currency “B” of the sovereign debt of Congo-Brazzaville. The perspective is stable. The agency estimates that the external and budgetary vulnerabilities of Congo-Brazzaville will remain important in the years to come. Good news though, S & P believes that Congo’s default risk on its single Eurobond has declined. The stable outlook reflects “our expectation of lower external and fiscal pressures over the next 12 months while taking into account persistent institutional and economic risks,” says S & P.…

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If there is one topic that dominated the debates on March 14, 2019 on the first day of the Africa Development Forum, it is African integration. The question was the final loop of the intervention of Mohamed El-Kettani, CEO of Attijariwafa Bank who invited all participants to reaffirm “our belief in an integrated common space of hope and future, to protectionist temptations at work at the international level “. And the banker insisted: “Invest in our human capital, in the advancement of African women, in strengthening our infrastructure, and in implementing credible governance schemes. Let’s work on the implementation of…

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The 6th edition of the Africa Development International Forum (# FIAD2019) opened on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Casablanca with a remarkable address by Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, whose country is the guest of honor. “Africa is a land of opportunity, growth and expansion with one of the highest concentrations of natural resources in the world,” says President Maada Bio at the opening of the forum “When the East meets the West “, placed firmly under the sign of continental integration. Welcoming the leadership of King Mohammed VI for the development and integration of the continent, the Sierra…

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