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After shrinking by around 13% in 2020, Seychelles’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow 7.7% in 2021, according…

The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) appointed a new national director for Chad on July 1, 2021 following the…

The noose is tightening around former South African President Jacob Zuma, nearly 9 days after his 15-month prison sentence for…

The African Development Bank Group has appointed Gambian Lamin Barrow as Managing Director of the Nigeria Country Office. The technocrat…

In Haiti, the outgoing Prime Minister, Claude Joseph, announced the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, killed in an armed commando…

Former vice-president – responsible for compliance at State Street Bank in Paris, Senegalese Mouhamed Ba has been appointed interim auditor…

Will the “great” republican dialogue announced last March by the head of state Faustin Archange Touadéra after his re-election in…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, July 6 called for the “rapid” establishment of a creditors’ committee for Ethiopia,…

Visiting Côte d’Ivoire, the president of the African Import Export Bank (Afreximbank), Benedict Oramah, said on Tuesday July 5 that…

After Senegal, Algeria, Egypt and Nigeria, which aim to locally produce vaccines against the coronavirus, it is around Morocco to…

The extractive industries sector is consolidating its place among the main contributors to government revenue. According to the report of…

Following on from the tour started by the Banque Populaire through the different regions of Morocco, the ocher city hosted,…

The African activities of the French multinational Axa are now attached to Asia. Indeed in its strategic plan “Driving Progress…

The Regional Council for Public Savings and Financial Markets (Crepmf) has approved Global Capital as a management and intermediation company…

In Mali, Interpol announces an arrest warrant issued against Karim Keita, eldest son of former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on…

The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) through its training center, the West African Center for Training and Banking…

President Félix Tshisekedi of DR Congo appointed on July 5, 2021, Ms. Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi as governor of the Central…

Previously announced in Kigali (Rwanda), the second edition of the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2021) will finally take place in Durban…

The Global Health plan addresses the needs of the local market in 19 countries across Africa, and expats across the…

The new Managing Director of Agro Food Industries, a subsidiary of the Sonoco group which manages among others Moulins d’Afrique,…

In a webinar discussion hosted by TagPay and moderated by Omar Ben Yedder from African Banker; Yves Eonnet (TagPay), Djiba…

CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution (DFI), on Monday (July 5th) announced that it has invested 500 million rand…

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB), has provided Murabaha financing…

By Khalid Cherkaoui Semmouni, Professor at the Faculty of Law in Rabat and at ISIC Recent advances in information and…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma, who on June 29, 2021 was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt…

The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa is increasing at an alarming rate, breaking all records set by previous peaks,…

By Charles Njoroge, Advisory Board Member of World Mobile  African vaccine rollouts have been deficient, to say the least. Not…

At the end of its 124th Board of Directors held on June 25, 2021, the West African Development Bank (BOAD)…

By Yaye Hélène Ndiaye, Founder and Director of KITAMBAA and Yacine Djibo, Founder and Executive Director of Speak Up Africa.…

Birimian, the first operational investment company dedicated exclusively to luxury and premium brands of African heritage, announces the signing of…