Surely, this would be one of the most significant highlights of the joint press conference held in Cameroon on the 3rd of July 2015 by France’s and Cameroon’s Presidents. This conference happened during Francois Hollande’s short official visit to Cameroon after visiting Benin and Angola. Paul Biya had then been interviewed by a Journalist from France 2 in regards to the duration of his stay...

Ivory Coast, the West African country with a new oil and gas agenda, is predicted to face a shortage of natural gas of about 6,000 billion cubic feet over the period covering 2014-2030 which has been substituted since 2004 by resorting to the very expensive liquid fuel HVO, relates the newspaper Le Patriote on its website. The situation could have serious consequences on the schedule for the...

French group AccorHotels announced, in a press release dated 3rd July, having signed an exclusive partnership with Angolan group AAA Activos Lda for the management of 50 hotels, till 2017, representing over 6200 rooms, from the budget segment to luxury class. This contract was signed during the French president visit to Angola. "This historic and unprecedented establishment of a hotel group in...

The problem of unpaid licence fees is reopened in Senegal, following the release of the 2013 report of the Court of Auditors. The institution names and shames the media who owe the Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority (ARTP). We learn that at this time, the debt of the Senegal Broadcasting corporation (RTS) has reached FCfa2.2 billion. In addition to the public company, there are...

On 30th June 2015, the general meeting of Societe Tunisienne des Entreprises de Telecommunications (Sotetel) shareholders agreed to extend the company's presence in Africa in a bid to renew with growth, which was severely affected in 2014. It was thus decided to get a permanent office in Algeria. The process has already begun. In this new market, Sotetel hopes to benefit from its positioning to...

The subsea optic fibre cable consortium Africa Coast to Europe (ACE), formed by the Orange group and its subsidiaries, as well as numerous other partners, announced Benin's connection to the system. The facility, commissioned in Cotonou on 2nd July 2015, is the second phase of the cable placement, which should end in South Africa, following stops in Cameroon, which recently signed the agreement...

The French telecommunications company Orange has just launched an international developer contest. 13 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle East will be represented. The goal is to support technology startups in the creation of added value services and to promote innovation. Developers from France, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Congo, Guinea Bissau, Guinea,...

According to an audit led by the Court of Auditors on the Telecommunications and Post Regulation Authority (ARTP), it appears that the telecom regulator gave away the sum of FCfa 8,012,003,232 to the telecom operator Expresso, subsidiary of Sudatel. The money covers invoices on radio frequency fees that Expresso was meant to pay to ARTP in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Furthermore, we learn that the...

The Angolan public broadcaster has started emitting in France since 2nd July 2015. The French public was spared nothing of president Francois Hollande’s visit, who will leave Angola this 3rd July for Cameroon. TPA International is the international version of the Télévision Publique d’Angola (TPA). It broadcast in France for the first time thanks to Free. The partnership includes the...

The American bank Goldman Sachs will have its first foray in the Ivory Coast before the end of the current year by financing of a project of 20,000 social housing for civil servants, per a report published on 2nd July in the French magazine Jeune Afrique. The repayment of this funding will be done through the creation of mortgages, the same source added. This will be implemented by drawing off...