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Côte d’Ivoire continues to dominate the regional financial market. On July 17, 2025, the Ivorian Public Treasury successfully raised 96.25…

Brussels is stepping up its pressure on Algiers. The European Union has officially launched arbitration proceedings against Algeria due to…

The Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM) hosted, on Thursday, July 17, 2025 in Abidjan, the ceremony of the simultaneous first listing…

On July 14, 2025, Bitcoin, this cryptographic chimera, crossed a new Rubicon by reaching $123,205.09, once again shattering the mental…

Special envoy to Algiers. Algiers, July 15, 2025 – In a solemn atmosphere and resolutely turned towards the future, the…

Senegal is facing an alarming deterioration of its financial situation, confirmed by the downgrade of its sovereign rating to “B-“…...

The works of the second annual ordinary session of the council of ministers of the West African Economic and Monetary…

Brazzaville, July 8, 2025 – Mr. Thierno-Habib Hann, Managing Director of the Shelter Afrique Development Bank (ShafDB), carried out an…

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has launched a private placement of $250 million in conditional convertible bonds over a period of…

“I am in favor of a FANAF of proximity, action, and transformation” With a career of over four decades in…

Peter Ndegwa, CEO of Safaricom, tops the list of highest-paid executives at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE), with an estimated…

From July 7 to 8, 2025, Daniel Mukoko Samba, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy, led a high-level…

With the launch of the NSIA Benin compartment as part of the Keur Samba program, the BOAD Securitization management company…...

Launched in 2011 at an estimated cost of $4 billion, the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD), located on the Blue Nile,…

Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (NGSE:GTCO), better known as GTBank, is taking a new strategic step by announcing its intention…

“The new agreement between Senegal and Mauritania facilitates mobility and strengthens ties with the diaspora” During an official visit to…

By Dr. Mohamed H’MIDOUCHEHonorary Consul of the Republic of Cape Verde to the Kingdom of Morocco. On July 5,…

By Mame Diarra Ndiaye Sobel, Executive Director, Agenda Africa The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), opened in…

The year 2024 marks a new stage in the strategic transformation of the National Investment Bank (BNI), illustrated by several…

Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the long-term credit rating of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) from Baa1 to Baa2, with…

On July 2, 2025, Burkina Faso raised 38.499 billion CFA francs (approximately 69.3 million USD) on the regional financial market…

By Professor Abderrahmane Mebtoul, University Professor, International Expert, Doctor of State (1974) in Management, Chartered Accountant from the Higher Institute…

Exclusive interview with Dalvim Pipa, Director of DEEDC at the Capital Markets Commission (CMC – Comissão do Mercado de Capitais).…...

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Vista Group Holding announced on June 30, 2025, the completion of the majority acquisition of Société Générale Burkina Faso. The…...

An exit that illustrates the limits of some listed SMEs… Abidjan, June 26, 2025 – The logistics company Movis Côte…

In Cameroon, the pre-campaign for the October 2025 presidential election has taken an unexpected turn with the entry into the…

Libreville, June 28, 2025 – The PORTEO BTP Gabon group, the Gabonese state, and BGFI Bank have formalized a strategic…

Abuja, Nigeria, June 28, 2025 – Following its 32nd Annual General Meetings held from June 25 to 28, 2025 in…

The Federation of African National Insurance Companies (FANAF) is preparing for a major deadline. In February 2026, at its 50th…