The Central African government has just awarded tropical wood trader Rougier SA a logging development and settlement concession of 270,000 hectares of forest. This concession, located in the Sangha-Mbaéré prefecture, was won by the French group following an international tendering process. Rougier, who has the rights to operate on this area for 25 years through its Rougier Sangha Mbaéré...

DNI Metals Inc, a Canadian mining company, won full mining permits over the graphite project, in the district of Amparafaravola in Madagascar towards the end of July. With this mining licence in hand, the company which is listed in Toronto and Frankfurt, claims it is in a position to accelerate the implementation of this graphite project located in the region of Alaotra-Mangoro, we learn. ...

Here is what Morocco has to say about a dispatch published on 21 August 2015 by Agence France Press (AFP): “The facts in the dispatch are incorrect and untrue”. It is the main message of the communiqué disclosed by the Moroccan Minister of Communication, Mustapha el Khalfi. The press article in question concerns the main separation walls in the world; the text along with a map presenting...

Mobile telephone operator LAP GreenN, threatened with a forced merger by the Ivorian government for several payment defaults, has been transferred to the Libyan postal, telecommunications and IT company (LPTIC). Formerly an asset of sovereign Libyan funds, Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), LAP GreenN owes the Ivorian State the sum of FCfa 8,899,960,748 representing different charges, notably...

During the 2015-2016 cocoa season, officially launched on 7 August 2015, the Cocoa and Coffee Inter-professional Council (CICC) will make available to producers of the Centre and South-West regions, about ten post-harvest treatment centres of excellence for cocoa, we learn from authorised sources. These are, as explained at CICC, units comprised of two fermentors and two dryers, all placed under...

Tunisair announced, in a press note released on 24 August, having taken delivery of a new Airbus A 330-200. The new aircraft is a long haul bi-reactor with larger “lie Flat” type seats. Christened Sidi Bou Said, from the name of “the emblematic village jewel of Arab and Andalusian architecture in the suburb of Paris”, the new airplane will enable all passengers to have their individual...

The hotel group Club Med announced, in a press release published on 25 August, that it would open in 2017 a second resort in Senegal, with an investment of 63 million Euros. The memorandum of understanding for the construction of Saraba Village was signed on 21 August by Henri Giscard d’Estaing, Chairman of the Board for Club Med, in the presence of Mahammed BounAbdallah Dionne, Prime Minister...

Benin will issue a FCfa 40 billion bond (USD 70.11 million) with 6.25% interest rate, on 27 August, announced the director of the Public Treasury, Job Olou, in a communiqué. This issuance will have a term of 5 years, the same source added. The bond will be offered to investors in the CFA franc zone in units of FCfa 10,000 through a public auction organised by the Central Bank of West African...

Is the Burkinabé Radio Television (RTB) boycotting activities from ex-President Blaise Compaoré’s political party? No, say the bosses of the public media, namely the CEO, Marie Danielle Bougaïré (photo), the director of the national radio, Evariste Combary and the director of the national television, Ouezzin Louis Oulon. To confirm it, they held a press conference to address the complaints...

In order to ensure the integration of digital technology in the daily life of people and boost the country’s economic development through ICT, Tunisia has launched a countrywide broadband internet access project. The project, estimated to cost around 200 million dinars (approximately USD 116 million), will be on the installation of modern equipment to enable quality internet signal reach all...