The government of Japan will provide to Senegal a concessional loan of FCFA41 billion to support its Universal Health Cover program (CMU) lanched in 2013. This was revealed following a meeting between Senegal’s Presdient Macky Sall and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference for African Development VI (TICAV VI) held in Nairobi, last month....

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will lend Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Niger and Mauritania, a total of $575.2 million to support development projects in each of these countries. The news was reported by l’Agence de presse africaine (APA). Senegal will receive $378.6 million for a regional project to connect the Dakar train to the airport and for its poverty reduction...

In Gabon, Prime Ministre Daniel Ona Ondo has made public on the 7th August 2016, on TV, a cabinet shuffle that affected three key positions within the goverment. Denise Mekamme, Minister for Higher education and Scientific Research prior to the shuffle, was appointed as the new Minister of Justice of Human Rights, thus replacing Séraphin Moundounga who quit his position. She herself has been...

By 2030, all of Angola’s population will have access to electricity. This was announced by Armindo da Conceição Mussongo, director general of the Electricity Staff Training Centre of the Minisry of Energy and Water. “To achieve this goal in 2030, we must proceed to up to 250,000 connections each year, in rural zones especially. These connections will be made through the national power...

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is looking to purchase 202,000 tons of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to be received through Suez and Alexandria ports in October 2016, according to a tender documentation for LNG imports. The documents revealed that EGPC issued a tender to buy 35,000 to 37,000 tons of LNG cargo, which contains 0.1% sulfur, to be received via the Suez port by October...

African Oxygen (Afrox) has announced that it has entered into a 10-year agreement worth R1 billion to supply liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to a key distributor, the Gordons Enterprise, in Lesotho. According to the South African gases and welding products Company, the contract with Gordons Enterprise will secure a new LPG filling site in the Maseru industrial development zone, providing a...

As part of efforts to reach a global agreement on freezing crude output to bolster oil prices, Algeria's Energy Minister, Nouredine Bouterfa, Saudi’s Khalid al-Falih and OPEC's secretary-general Mohammed Barkindo (photo), are to meet in Paris on Friday, an Algerian official revealed. The meeting is part of the drive for a production freeze as producers have been struggling with low oil prices...

In a report released last Tuesday and entitled “herakles Farms / Sgsoc : histoire d’un projet d’huile de palme destructeur au Cameroon”, environmental protection NGO Greenpeace International and Oakland Institute, an independent politics-focused think tank, accused the US State department of being involved in a case where 73,000 ha of land, situated in the south western part of...

Morocco wishes to democratize photovoltaic power. “Around 3.5 million people will benefit from the introduction of this source of energy to the country’s low-tension power network. Each building will have solar panels that will boost production, making it possible to even store excess energy,” said Abdelkader Amara, Minister of energy, mines, water and environment at the second edition of...

Djibouti just joined the African Import-Export Bank. The adhesion agreement for its membership was signed on September 5, 2016, in the capital of Djibouti by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, during a work visit of Afreximbank’s President, Benedict Okey Oramah. Before initialing the adhesion document, Mr. Oramah was received by the President of Djibouti, Ismail Omar...