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CDC Group, the UK’s impact investor and development finance institution (DFI) has announced a commitment to invest over US$1 billion…

Jack Ma appeared in public at a rally held Wednesday, January 20 with teachers in his hometown of Hangzhou. With…

Africa’s largest economy sees inflation hitting 15.75 percent in December, its highest in 33 months, according to figures from the…

In Addis Ababa, the sixth virtual session of the week dedicated to the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)…

Phew of relief for the insurance companies of the Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets. The passage of the minimum capital…

Benin completes Africa’s first international bond transaction of the year, with the issuance of one billion euros in two tranches…

Recruited 6 months ago to lead the US vaccine strategy, Belgian-Moroccan Moncef Slaoui resigned Tuesday January 12 at the request…

Global Credit Rating Company Limited (GCR Ratings) is very pleased to announce the acquisition of a 65% shareholding in West…

He had to convince himself that he was better off with a suspicious public opinion. But, two weeks after his…

At 76 years old and all his teeth, Yoweri Museveni is still there, embodying the African leader. The man who…

Amsterdam, 4 January 2021.  FCI along with Afreximbank announce the appointment of Mr. Nassourou Aminou as the new Regional Manager…

The covid-19 vaccination campaign began in Europe on December 27 and is unlikely to hit Africa until March according to…

At the end of a trying 2020, Africa is experiencing its first recession in 25 years. But, beyond the economic…

A few days before his departure from the White House and the inauguration of Joe Biden, Donald Trump continues his…

By leveraging technological innovation and Big data, Africa’s economy has remained resilient in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, while…

Pending the handover between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Republican and Democratic parliamentarians will present to the Senate a $…

The Covid-19 vaccine will be administered to Americans before the end of 2020. Donald Trump said so last spring, sparking…

Airbnb’s IPO has kept its promises on Wall Street. The hosting services giant’s share that went public on Thursday (Dec.…

The bill against Islamist separatism presented this Wednesday before French parliamentarians is sharply criticized by Washington, which associates it with…

Since the UK cleared the use of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, the US pharmaceutical giant has taken center stage…

Wall Street’s Volatility Index (VIX) has returned to its February level, before the coronavirus disease was declared a global pandemic…

Expired since February 2020 and extended until this month of December, the new Africa-ACP partnership is being negotiated, on December…...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s congratulations to his Guinean counterpart Alpha Condé do not match the classic “for your brilliant re-election”…

Unsuccessful in his appeal in Pennsylvania by a judge he had nevertheless appointed, defeated by the popular vote (80 million…

In the first volume of his memoir entitled “Terres Promises” (Fayard), which has already sold more than 900,000 copies, former…...

Between indignation over the alleged slavery origin of the expression “Black Friday” and a frank desire to profit, like any…

Orange announces the launch of its 5G network in 15 French municipalities, from December 3, 2020, while the anti-Huawei decree,…...

The apex body of world football questions the management of the president of the African Football Confederation (CAF), who is…

The Central Bank of the People’s Republic of China will be one of the very first in the world to…

The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) mobilized 3.8 billion euros during the meeting with bilateral and multilateral partners.…