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After the February 1, 2019 dismissal of Hassoumi Massaoudou, Minister of Finance, replaced at short notice by Mamadou Diop, former…...

Agri-Vie Fund II has acquired a 36.5% stake in Jumbo Brands, an agribusiness firm in South Africa. Indeed, the investment…

French bank Société Générale has announced its goal of increasing its market share in its Ghana operations to 7%. “We…

Carlos Lopes is a professor at the Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, High Representative of…

Ethio Telecom, which has around 66 million customers, took a major step forward in its much-anticipated privatisation last month by…

Economist and banker Cheickna Bounajim Cisse has just published “FCFA – Hidden Face of African Finance” (Ed BoD, 2019). The…

According to the Evolution of the Togolese Financial System presented in the National Development Plan (NDP), the analysis of the…

According to its results not yet audited, the Tunisian insurance company Salim recorded, in 2018, a 13% increase in its…

In Nigeria, Guinea Insurance Plc’s activities were suspended by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) in a decision issued on January…

By Massandouno Doussou Komara. Repatriation of assets stolen by corrupt leaders: from theory to reality The return of stolen assets…

The Ghanaian subsidiary of the Old Mutual Insurance Company has announced the appointment of a new General Manager in the…

The Association of Lobbying and Public Affairs Councils of Côte d’Ivoire (ACLAP-CI) has just published its now traditional list of…

The Cameroonian government and this financial institution initialed a financing agreement of 62 billion FCFA for the improvement of the…

“It is imperative to encourage AU Member States to subscribe to the ARC mechanism considering the level of success it…

The Federal Government of Nigeria has allocated a 5.12-hectare piece of land in Abuja to the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)…

The World Bank has opened a line of credit in the form of a guarantee for project developers including Electricité…

After almost ten years in the top management of the world’s largest financial companies, the Franco-Ivorian banker is expected to…...

At a hearing with Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, held on 29 January in…

Australian uranium company Aura Energy will sell 800,000 pounds of uranium oxide (U3O8) to Curzon Uranium Trading (CUT) over a…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) injected on Tuesday, January 29, 210 million USD on the interbank foreign exchange market…

The Board of Directors of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) approved Tuesday, January 29, a financing of 20…

After starting the link between Abidjan and New York on May 12, 2018, Ethiopian Airlines announced the opening of a…

In Togo, less than 1% of bank loans go to the agricultural sector, which accounts for 60% of the active…

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) raised in 2018 a total of 2 billion Ghanaian cedis (400 million USD), announced its…

Emirati Emirates Bank NBD won for the second time in a row the “Best Bank” award in Egypt for 2018…

According to a statement issued by the Banque de l’Habitat (BH), the institution’s NBI rose by 17.5% in 2018 to…

The old debate on the CFA franc never ceases to make headlines. On the side of technicians and politicians, the…

Selon la Banque centrale du Ghana (BoG), in November 2018, 172.9 million of Ghana cedis (around 34.5 milliards USD), who…

Total Africa’s director, Guy Maurice, told Brazzaville on 25 January 2019 that the group “will continue to support the Congo…

Since becoming the leading container port in the region since 2017, Lagos has been ranked first. Lomé owes its rank…...