The Congolese minister of posts, telecommunications and digital economy, Léon Juste Ibombo (picture), organized a meeting in the framework of the midterm assessment of measures implemented by telecommunication operators to improve the quality of their networks and services. The meeting held on October 12, 2017 followed the one in September during which the minister asked MTN, Airtel and Azur, to...

Morocco and Russia wish to boost their cooperation in the power sector. This was disclosed by Dmitri Medvedev (picture), Russia’s Prime Minister, while visiting the Cherifian kingdom. “The potential for cooperation is quite significant. We are discussing of ways to improve our cooperation in the nuclear energy and renewable energies sectors,”said the Russian official, subsequent to a...

The will be no elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) before 2019. This was revealed by the national independent electoral commission (CENI) which said it needs 504 days after the ongoing census, to organize any poll. What is to known is that the actual census will last many more weeks, in the Kasaï regions where many conflicts are taking place. It is therefore very likely that...

The value of urban food markets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) could rise to $300 billion by 2030, against $150 billion in 2010. This was revealed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its “State of Food and Agriculture 2017” report. The growth will mostly be driven by an increase of Africa’s urban populations. Indeed, according to the report, the continent, which...

Angola’s President, João Lourenço (picture), announced on October 11, 2017, that land users who do not valorize the lands they were awarded, will be stripped of these properties, local press agency Angop reported.  The successor of José Eduardo dos Santos, who was expressing himself at the launch of the 2017/18 agricultural season in the Huambo province, explained that this measure is...

The Fekola mine in Mali, property of B2Gold has commenced production three months later than expected. The mining firm has revealed on its website, in a statement released last Tuesday that its first gold was produced on October 7, 2017, following the factory’s construction at the end of September, as announced. B2Gold declared that commissioning is still ongoing and that the mine will enter...

The Senegalese government has adopted in a council of ministers, the 2018 budget, amounting to CFA3,709.10 billion (about $6.7 billion) against CFA3,360 billion for the year ending next December, thus up 10.4%. According to the report of the Ministers’ council, the budget is “in truth focused on major social priorities, with a significant, direct and immediate impact on Senegalese...

Mahamat Allahou Taher (picture), Chad’s minister of posts and new information technologies has released some information about the African Centre for Information and Communication Technologies (CATI) promised since 2014 by the President, Idriss Deby, at the first edition of the international ICT trade fair (SITIC). The head of the telecom sector declared that the project is currently in the...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched on Oct. 4, 2017, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a special training programme for entrepreneurs and young enterprises operating in the textile, clothing and accessories industry (TH&A). The programme falls under the Fashionomics initiative started in May 2015, by the financial institution to boost Africa’s integration to the global textile value...

Malawi has recorded normal rains during the 2017/18 agricultural season, Reuters reported citing a statement from the Malawi ministry of natural resources. Though the improvement should lead to a good production of maize, the country’s main basic food product, the ministry indicates that difficult weather conditions such as prolonged drought and flooding could occur at various places. Let it...