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The South African government has unveiled a new mining charter that requires mining companies to increase the share of their…

Nigeria’s state-owned petroleum company NNPC is targeting 2.3 million barrels a day in 2019, compared with 1.7 million currently, according…

Afriland First Bank has selected Temenos, the bank software publisher, as part of the renovation of its IT infrastructure. The…

The Cargill, Wilmar and Touton groups have put forward offers for the takeover of the assets of SAF Cacao, the…

The Ivorian banker Martin Essoh Djedjes, former boss of BIAO (now NSIA Banque), continues his career in agribusiness where he…

Côte d’Ivoire is expected to raise the minimum cocoa purchase price for the new campaign that opens early next week.…

Togo welcomed, in 2017, 566,764 tourists who generated 44.7 billion F CFA of hotel receipts, against 425 669 tourists with…

After an absence of more than 10 years at the International Exhibition of Tourism and Travel in Paris, Mauritania has…

From the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) in Nairobi, Kenya, Marriott International on first october announced rapid expansion plans across…

The Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) is again wet in a hijacking case.…

Arrived Monday, September 24, 2018 in New York for the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Togolese president, Faure…

The Moroccan group OCP, the world leader in the phosphate fertilizer market, and the Hubei Forbon Group, a Chinese player…

Mostly related to human activities, the scourge of plastic waste is a most urgent concern on a global scale. In…

After entering the Ivorian market, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the American fast-food chain, will arrive in Gabon in January 2019.…

The Economic Commission for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the National Institute for Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA)…

The Algerian oil and gas group Sonatrach is considering a US $ 59 billion investment in the country in the…

Japanese NEC XON and Senegalese La Colombe Group launch one of the first cyber-security centers south of the Sahara. The…

On 5 September 2018, the High Court of England and Wales issued an injunction prohibiting the Djibouti port company, Port…...

AccorHotels announced the acquisition of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts on September 3, 2018. With this acquisition, the Mövenpick Hotels &…

The British gas explorer Sound Energy has just obtained a new agreement with the kingdom of Morocco. Lasting eight years,…

The Norwegian oil and gas group Panoro Energy has announced in a press release the discovery by its Gabonese subsidiary…

Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Guillaume Doane is the CEO and co-founder of Africa Oil & Power (AOP), the…

Saf Cacao, one of the largest Ivorian exporters of cocoa, in liquidation following contracts in default, will finally have no…

Ivory Coast has already sold, since mid-August, 1.7 million tonnes of cocoa on its next crop of cocoa to start…

The President of the first blockchain state will make a unique presentation for all guests of the biggest blockchain and…

Côte d’Ivoire registers first airline pilot. Trained for two years in a partnership successively at INP-HB, the Yamoussoukro National Polytechnic…

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) is organizing a forum on local content development in Senegal on September 13th, 2018, in…

The managing director of the Transgabonais Exploitation Company (SETRAG), Patrick Claes, has just announced that his company has just received…

By Antoine Lawson, Libreville. The Directorate General of the Economy and Tax Policy (DGEPF) revealed that Gabon had produced 1.109…

United Bank for Africa Benin has just made available to its customers a new offer called “MAGIC BANKING”. This is…