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The South African bank Standard Bank Group Limited plans to buy additional shares in its Kenyan subsidiary Stanbic Holdings, through…...

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…

The Egyptian economy recorded a growth of 9% in the first half of the financial year 2021/22, after achievements of…...

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…

Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI) has issued a €700 million Eurobond to fund business growth in Nigeria. The five-year euro-denominated…...

Nigeria’s inflation rate declined to 15.60% in January 2022, from a peak of 15.63% in December 2021, according to the…...

Dark Fiber Africa (DFA), a South African company specializing in the provision of open access fiber optic infrastructure and connectivity,…...

The turnover of the Société Tunisienne d’Email (SOTEMAIL), which specializes in the production and marketing of ceramic tiles and porcelain…...

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

Suspicious death, on the run and in custody. Here is the big Guinean thriller that keeps the Pandoras of Scotland…...

CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, today  announced its anchor commitment of $30 million to AXIAN Telecom’s inaugural 5-year…

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

At the “Total” market, one of the busiest in Brazzaville, the incessant ballet of comings and goings between the fruit…

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

The president of Pepsi, Ravi Jaipuria, announced on February 12, 2022 in Kinshasa, the start of the group’s investments in…...

Bank Al-Maghrib, the Moroccan central bank, announced on February 10, 2022 in Rabat, a partnership agreement withCDG Invest, Investment Branch…...

The Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) achieved approximately 2.4 billion dollars in revenue…...

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 lending interest rates applied by the banks of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to their customers…...

Ghana’s foreign exchange reserves stood at USD 9.7 billion in December 2021, compared to USD 8.6 billion at the end…...

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…...