This year, Togo will adopt drip irrigation as its main irrigation system. According to the website Republic of Togo, government keeps investing in the modernization of its agriculture by using a system that uses less water and fertilizer and which thus seems to be the most appropriate for a country that happens to record low rainfall. This website adds that this decision follows the provision...

At the beginning of February, Zambian subsidiary of Lafarge commissioned at its Ndola plant, a new plug and grind plant. It is to produce 100,000 tons of cement per year thus bringing the overall capacity of the plant to 500,000 tons. It is a portable cement grinding plant whose components have been imported so that remaining construction works include just construction of foundations and...

Africa will soon have its own version of the famous American TV show “Lip Sync Battle” produced by the Viacom Inc group. The show was launched in April 2015 and was well received by public. Exported across the globe, the show revolves around a song contest between celebrities. One of the show’s stakeholders is the famous rapper LL Cool J. It was him even who via social networks announced...

ONATEL or Office National des Télécommunications (National Office for Telecommunications), Burkinabe subsidiary of Moroccan telecom group Maroc Telecom, announced it has generated a net profit of 25.27 billion CFA ($43.3 million) for the 2015 fiscal year, this despite the various socio-political troubles the West African nation experienced during the year. This performance was paired with an...

Chad’s president, IdrissDebyItno, who was just chosen by his party to run for the upcoming elections on April 10th, promised on February 10th to reinstate the limit on number of presidential terms. “Reintroducing term limit in the Constitution should be done for it is the vitality of our young democracy that is at stake here,” he said during the presentation of his political agenda a day...

Liberia signed with the European Union two funding agreements worth €59 million overall. These funds will be used to improve access to electricity of Liberian populations and reinforce the capacities of National Authorizing Office which is responsible for the coordination of the projects. “Produce cheaper electricity is at the center of our strategy for economic transformation....

The European Union recently announced it was not going to revise the agreement on Moroccan tomato import. According to Europa Press, Phil Hogan, the commissioner for agriculture and rural development said: “We have no plans to revise the agreement with Morocco concerning tomatoes and other products”. He added that “the agreement needed no systematic 5-year revision”. The announcement...

The President of U.S, Barack Obama, proposed a $200 million budget to fight Islamic State in Africa, Reuters reported on February 9 citing high officials from the White House. “The marginal increase is on the order of about $200 million associated with North Africa,” an US defense official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Another official from the ministry however said the...

In Equatorial Guinea, the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy has revealed that Riaba Fertilizers Ltd has granted a Chinese delegation headed by East China Engineering Science and Technology Co. Ltd (ECEC), the EPC contract for a new petrochemicals complex. The delegation was granted the contract at the holding company’s headquarters in Beijing, China. Riaba Fertilizers Ltd. was integrated...

For its first semester which ended on December 31, 2015, Mauritian insurer Mauritian Eagle generated a turnover of 585.3 million Mauritian rupees ($16.4 million), almost the same as the turnover generated the previous year over the same period. Net result of the firm’s insurance segment on the same trend had a margin of 36 million rupees (1000 rupees=$28). During the quarter, the firm’s...