CEMAC: KiwiPay partners with GIMAC to promote electronic payment
The Singaporean firm KiwiPay is conquering the monetics of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) has just concluded a partnership with...
Cameroon: the challenges of the new CEO of Nexttel
The mobile operator Nexttel, a subsidiary of the Vietnamese group Viettel, has a new managing director Benoît Yaoussou, following a decision by the board...
Mali: gold reserves estimated at 703 tonnes
Mali currently has gold reserves estimated at around 703 tonnes, according to the Ministry of Mines. The country's industrial production reached 65.2 tonnes in...
Telecommunications: 9.9% increase in Sonatel’s turnover in the first quarter of 2021
The turnover of the Sonatel group (National Telecommunications Company) of Senegal, which includes subsidiaries in Mali, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, increased by 9.9%...
Aid agencies pledge to support West African food security storage system
As part of the international online conference organized by the ECOWAS Commission, from April 28 to May 10, 2021, to share its experience of...
Senegal wants to reproduce the performance of the 2020/2021 agricultural campaign
After President Macky Sall's announcement of an investment of 60 billion CFA francs ($ 110 million) in the 2021/2022 agricultural campaign, the Senegalese Minister...
Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon take a bite out of the crisis
For the four knights of American tech, the social distancing born of the coronavirus pandemic is rather a godsend. The apple brand led by...
South Africa: Mango Airlines forced to suspend its flights
Mango Airlines, a South African airline, has been forced by the airport management company (Airports Company of South Africa Limited (ACSA) to suspend its...
La Côte d’Ivoire wants to require multinationals to grant 20% of cocoa purchasing contracts...
Following the protest of exporters grouped within the Ivorian traders group (GNI), to denounce the hand of multinationals on the purchase of almost all...
South Africa: Absa bank launches QR Code payment to reduce physical transactions
Absa bank launched its contactless payment service via QR Code on its mobile application. This initiative is part of a campaign to reduce physical...
Bank of Africa integrates Finastra to digitize business processes
Moroccan banking group Bank of Africa has signed a partnership contract with financial software developer Finastra to digitize business processes. Conpend's TRADE AI application...
AfDB will support the creation of special agro-food processing zones in Mali
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will support Mali in the creation of agropoles or Special Agro-Food Processing Zones (ZSTA) in the large production basins...
DRC: Ivanhoe and SNEL agree to renovate turbine 5 of the Inga hydroelectric dam
Ivanhoe Mines Energy announced on Monday April 26 that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Electricity Company (SNEL) for the...
Qatar Airways announces Doha-Abidjan route
Qatar Airways has announced that it will proceed on June 16 with the opening of a new Doha-Abidjan route. In a press release on...