In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the cities of Kinshasa and Kasumbalesa are now connected via the fiber optic. This segment which is the second phase of the national fiber optic network, was successfully completed. Deployment works which started in March 2014, ended on October 3, 2017. The 3,300km-long line was awarded a final reception certificate by the minister of posts, telecommunication...

Last Thursday, Algeria and Russia have signed in Algiers many partnership and cooperation agreements and various memoranda of understanding, on the sidelines of an official visit in Algeria by Russia’s Prime Minister, Dmitri Medvedev. The first convention inked concerns justice as it aims to boost cooperation and legal support between the two countries, in the criminal domain...

Kenya should receive from the African Development Bank (AfDD) a Sh9.3 billion facility ($89 million) to access to power in the country.  The funds were raised by selling a 10-year bond to Japan’s third largest life-insurance company, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company. The operation is one of the priorities of the African institution in a bid to help the continent achieve full access to...

At Kindia, in Western Guinea, illegal constructions are growing out of proportions. A situation to which prefectural authorities have decided to put an end. “One cannot get up and decide on his own to become a land owner, or build a property without knowing the parameters involved. Being a landlord is not the same as being a developer or an urbanist. This is a responsibility that befalls the...

In Algeria, close to 50% of local newspapers have closed in the past three years. This was revealed by Jamal Kaouan, minister of information, during a show aired recently.  According to the official, “26 daily newspapers and 34 weekly newspapers ceased to be published since the beginning of the financial crisis in Algeria, in 2014”. He highlighted that before the crisis, more than 140...

ASX-listed Bass Metals has signed with the European Pssehl Erzkonta an agreement to sell it 50% of the production of the first phase of its Graphmada graphite prject, in Madagascar. It will therefore each year provide the buyer each year over three years a volume of 3,000 tons of graphite concentrates, starting from January 2018.  “Our partnering with Possehl, a group that has been in...

France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, has announced that his country will receive 10,000 refugees by 2019. This was revealed last Monday subsequent to a meeting with the President of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.  “I wish that we better host those that can seek asylum, for administrative delays to be accelerated as they are currently inhuman and inefficient, have...

The Algerian minister of energy just revealed that 27 billion dinars have been allocated to the country’s gas programme. This will help pay all companies participating to the project. The gas programme aims to increase the country’s penetration rate for natural gas. So far, it helped cover 60% of the territory, according to its Director, Mustapha Guitouni. The official added that the scheme...

 “The war against coal is over… Tomorrow, in Washington, D.C, I’ll be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean Power Plan,” said last Monday Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US environmental protection agency. The official, it should be recalled, when acting as the attorney of the Oklahoma State, took part to the contesting of the law by about thirty US States. The...

The French Development Agency (AFD) has provided a €80 million loan to the Moroccan national railway office (ONCF) to finance the last tranche of its Tangiers-Casablanca High-speed train Line project. Present at the signing of the loan agreement in Rabat was the Moroccan ministry of economy and finance, Mohamed Boussaid, who declared that “with this funding, AFD has injected more...