From November 24 to 27, Côte d’Ivoire will receive professionals of the web, marketing, and digital industries, in the framework of the fourth edition of Africa Web Festival. The event aims to promote African excellence in terms of digital. According to Mariam Diawara, the festival’s promoter, “jobs must be created for youth because the main challenge of the future is youth. The best way...

Kwesi Appiah (photo), coach of Ghana’s national football team, the Black Stars, has announced that he wishes to build in Ashaiman, in the Greater Accra region, a solar equipment manufacturing plant. To this end, he will be backed by Appiah-Karim Company Ltd and Palmer Group Company, respectively based in US and Germany, Ghana Web reported.  Worth €14.5 million, the plant will...

Last week-end in Abidjan was held a panel to teach young Ivoirians about land management, according to Agence ivoirienne de Presse (AIP). Organized by the Friedrich Ebert foundation and the Ivorian Leaders Network (Réseau ivoirien des leaders - RIL), the workshop was themed: “How can youth contribute to the resolution of land issues in Côte d’Ivoire?” “Land issues have become a chronic...

Naspers’ internet TV service Showmax recently broadcasted the trailer of its first original series, "Tali’s Wedding Diary". The comedy series was created for Showmax by Suzelle DIY’s creative team, a successful web series on YouTube. According to details obtained so far, Tali’s Wedding Diary will mainly target an African audience. The series is about Tali, a young South African coming...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Growing Together Fund (AGTF) are about to grant Rwanda a $171 million loan to develop a sanitation and water supply programme.  In the framework of the scheme, AfDB will provide $121.137 million while AGTF, the fund created by China and the pan-African institution itself, will provide $50 million. The whole project will...

On November 17, 2017, the telecom operator Algérie Telecom has revealed it was hit by a major cyberattack. According to the State-owned firm, the attack aimed at hacking and blocking its system.  It added that its IT engineers were able to stop the attack and secure operational platforms. With the collaboration of security services, Algérie Telecom further notified that the hackers were...

Fourth largest gold producer in Africa, Mali has announced last Friday that its overall output for the ore could reach 95 tons in 2017, up 40% compared to 2016. The news which was reported by Reuters originally came from Mamadou Sidibé, one of the government’s officials. The increase is attributed to production forecast for informal miners which should be of 50 tons, or more than twice the...

In a statement released last week, the Nouvelle Société Cotonière du Togo (NSCT) has published forecasts for the 2017-2018 cotton season which opened last May. While the company planned for areas sown to cover 160,000 hectares, it was finally 170,000 hectares that were sown and this impacted the production. According to forecasts, this year, the country will produce about 130,000 tons of...

Pressured by its public debt which represents more than 120% of its GDP, Gambia’s government asked its lenders for a debt restructuring.  “We are calling to all, to the Club de Paris as well as to bilateral and multilateral lenders… The debt presently represents 120% of our GDP. It is very high and that’s the reason why we are asking for it to be restructured,” said Gambia’s...

Oryx Energies announces the acquisition of a 75.01% stake in Atlas Energy Limited, Gambia (Atlas), thereby entering the Gambian oil product distribution market for the first time. With over 220 employees, Atlas manages a network of 28 service stations and a portfolio of business customers to which it supplies fuels, lubricants and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). The service stations will keep the...