In Morocco, the minister of Communication, Mustapha el Khalfi (pictured), announced that on the proposal of the head of government, an audit is scheduled to be done on audiovisual production contracts made between public television channels and foreign companies. This is to assess the outcome of the 15 bids awarded to 60 companies during the last 2 years. The minister repeated it to...

Sundance Resources Ltd, an Australian mining company listed on ASX, announced the signing of a provisional agreement on 30th June with the Cameroonian government relating to the mining of the large Mbalam-Nabeba iron project, located astride Cameroon and Congo. All conditions precedent are today satisfied and the provisional agreement is therefore unconditional”, said the Australian company on...

Is the Senegalese countryside about to make the great leap forward? This is surely the ambition of Mr Macky Sall (pictured) and his government who have just launch the Community Development Emergency Programme (PUDC). The initiative, which goal is to “meet immediate and crucial needs through a fast procedure” according to Senegal’s first citizen, is meant for the construction of 10,029 km...

The leader in international money transfer services Western Union and the mobile operator MTN announced, in a press release published on 6th July, the launch of a new mobile money transfer service in Rwanda and Côte d’Ivoire. The new service will allow MTN clients, in the aforementioned countries, to receive money transfers in their mobile wallets. The senders can choose to operate from a...

According to a communiqué issued by Etienne Dieudonné Ngoubou, minister for Oil and Gas, and released yesterday, the Republic of Gabon and the Japanese group Marubeni signed on 6th July 2015 in Libreville a memorandum of understanding to carry out a feasibility study in Gabon for a methanol plant project. Though the details in relation to the construction of this plant have not yet been...

The Ivorian group Yedcor International announced, on 8th July, its intention to build un big residential, trading and touristic real estate complex in Abidjan on an area covering 10 hectares. According to Desnos T. Yed (pictured), CEO for Yedcor group, this project will include 350,000 m2 of constructed area, with two multi-level towers of 40 floors. Christened Yedcor Valley Center, this...

In Marrakech, 5 young people were arrested for buying and drinking orange juice on the Jemaa el-Fna square. They could get a sentence of up to 6 months of prison sentence, as stipulated by the Moroccan law: “Whoever, publicly known for his affiliation to the Muslim religion, obviously breaks the fast in a public area during the month of Ramadan, without any reason admissible by the religion”,...

CFAO Technologies, a division of the CFAO Group, develops, designs, integrates and operates tailored IT infrastructure and system solutions for its B2B customers. The division recently secured Cisco Gold Certification, an international "gold standard" in IT system and network support and design. CFAO Technologies is the first IT services company in the region to obtain this level of...

For 5 months now, French-speaking countries of Africa and France have been receiving channel Nina TV, a channel exclusively dedicated to showing African and South American telenovelas. Soon, English-speaking African world will have a comparable channel emitting in English. The new channel has been christened Nina TV-The Novelas Channel. It will be launched on 27th July on all English-speaking...

The telecom group Econet Wireless Group, belonging to the Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa announced on 7th July 2015 the completion of the merger of its Burundian subsidiary with that of VimpelCom, U-Com Leo, bought as the same time as the Central African subsidiary in October 2014 for US$65 million. The new operator, consisting of Econet Wireless and U-Com Leo has been called Econet Leo....