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Uhuru Kenyatta formalized, Thursday, February 24, his support for the candidacy of Raila Odinga, his former opponent. The Kenyan president…...

After several weeks of uncertainty and concern, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced early this Thursday, February 24, at 3 a.m.…...

The Togolese authorities signed, on February 22, 2022 in Lomé, a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Fund for Development…...

Cameroonian journalist Michel Lobé Ewané has been appointed to the board of directors of Joseph Sassoon Group, an international financial…...

Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) today assigned the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) an Aa2 rating with a…

Egypt and Sudan each condemned, on Monday, February 21, the start of electricity production from the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD)…...

The road and rail infrastructure development project of the Douala-Ndjamena corridor linking Cameroon to Chad with a total investment of…...

On the eve of his fifth visit to Senegal, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a message to the Senegalese…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated the six African countries that will benefit from technology transfer to produce their…...

The managing director of Shelter Afrique, Andrew Chimphondah, has just been sacked with immediate effect, Financial Afrik has learned from…

Business suits and black leather shoes aside, are there any similarities among the top 1% of the Congolese banking sector?…

➢ Africa50 has made an investment in PAIX Data Centres, a company that owns and operates a pan-African carrier-neutral data…

As the 6th summit between the European Union and the African Union opened in Brussels on Thursday February 17, Emmanuel…

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) announced on February 17, 2022 that it had signed a loan agreement for 250 million…...

In this interview conducted on the eve of the European Union-African Union summit, economist Carlos Lopes discusses the crucial issues…

The French and Senegalese Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Macky Sall attended this Wednesday, February 16, 2022, at Station F in…

In Guinea, the special prosecutor of the court for the repression of economic and financial offenses announced, on February 16,…...

African entrepreneurs provide a service to a growing business niche.  Mwungano, which means alliance in Swahili has been created by…

The objective of this challenge is to identify Moroccan, African, and international start-ups  able to co-develop innovative digital solutions in…

After modest GDP growth of 1.5% in 2020, growth is expected to accelerate to 3.8% in 2021 thanks to increased…...

The OCP Group wishes to strengthen its partnerships with innovation players (start-ups,  research centers, sponsors, etc.) to bring out new…

CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, announced on February 14, 2022 its base commitment of USD 30 million as…...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that South Africa will face lackluster growth despite a faster-than-expected recovery from the…...

Veritas Kapital Assurance Plc, one of Nigeria’s leading insurance companies, has announced the appointment of Paul Oki as an independent…

Visiting Dakar (Senegal) on Thursday, February 10, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, announced a regional…...

Opinion-Editorial by Souleymane Traoré, Chief Executive Officer, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG), Conakry, Guinea The mining sector has a…

The company SAAR Assurances Senegal, a subsidiary of the eponymous pan-African group, has a new general manager in the person…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres re-appointed Ibrahim Thiaw of Mauritania to head the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)…

CEO Jaakko Kangasniemi: “Africa is the place to be for European development financiers” The Finnish development financier and impact investor…

Standard and Poor’s confirmed its long and short term sovereign credit rating on Rwanda at ‘B+/B’. The outlook nonetheless remains…...