Oryx Energies has been awarded a multi-site triple certification, ISO 9001: 2015 (Quality), ISO 14001: 2015 (Environment) and OHSAS 18001: 2007 (Health and Safety), in recognition of the efficiency of its processes and its management system. This makes it the first oil products company to receive a multi-site triple certification for all its activities. The certification, awarded by SGS...

Gabon’s sole oil refinery, the Societe Gabonaise de Raffinage (Sogara) at Port Gentil, has resumed production after a five-day shut down, Sylvain Mayabi, secretary-general of the National Organization of Petrol Employees revealed. The refinery was shut last week Wednesday as a result of the violence which broke out after President Ali Bongo was declared the election winner on August 27, 2016,...

Aiming to streamline land management in Cote d’Ivoire and stop anarchic construction, Niakaramadougou’s departmental director of Ministry of Construction and Urbanism (MCU), N’guessan Yobouet, warned municipal authorities to be more vigilant. The director asked mayors to take special care to insure the respect of administrative and legal measures related to land acquisition and...

Internet connexion in African nations where telecom operators and Internet Service Providers use the South Africa Far East (SAFE) sub-marine cable has been slow since September 2, 2016. Among countries affected there is Mauritius, Benin, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Angola, Senegal and Ghana. Anticipating future complaints from its users, Mauritius Telecom, cited by local news website...

The Islamic television group MTA International, part of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, launched a new channel for African people named MTA International Africa. Active since last Month, the new channel was launched at the MTA International London Studios by the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The channel is already in...

From September 21 to 24, 2016, Morocco will host the first international information technologies (IT) trade fair. Entitled AITEX – AFRICA IT EXPO, the event whose theme is “Digital Transformation: Driver for Development in Africa” is organized by the APEBI, Morocco’s federation for Offshoring, Information and Communication Technologies. At the fair which will be held in Casablanca,...

Visiting Dakar in the framework of the annual review of the Senegal-Canada bilateral cooperation program, Canadian minister for global development and francophonie, Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced that her country would lend the African nation C$72 million (around €49.45 million). The funds will be used to support the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE) and a technical assistance program. The...

French start-up Afrimarket raised €10 million to deploy its e-commerce platform in six new African nations, French daily Les Echos reported on September 5. “Funds mobilized will help us develop our e-commerce platform,” said Rania Belkahia, co-founder of Afrimarket. Launched about a year ago in Cote d’Ivoire, the platform will be deployed in four other countries (Senegal in...

The new Managing Director of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), Tony Attah (photo), has vowed to work with his team in delivering the NLNG’s planned Train-7 project which has been without a final investment decision (FID) for a while now. This he declared at a farewell and welcome ceremony conducted during the weekend. The construction of the Train-7 is aimed at increasing the...

Power developer Zoetic will develop in Swaziland a 200 MW hydropower project. The firm has indeed signed a memorandum of understanding for the project and should within the next 60 days deploy a team to explore the river system for the project. Estimated to cost $600 million, the project developer will use some of the infrastructures of existing dams. It will use floating, portable modular...