The West African railroad loop project recently launched by French group Bolloré could be derailed. Indeed: French engineering company Geftarail filed a petition, on 5 November, at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce to request the immediate cessation of the works, which started in Niger and Benin, according to information revealed on 12 November by...

The mobile network operator Méditel, subsidiary of French telecom group Orange, signed an agreement with M2M group, specialised in the conception and development of data cloud management and secured electronic transactions solutions. Through this partnership, both companies will put in place joint workshops for the creation of packages and offers targeting connected devices. The partnership...

The subscribers of mobile telephone operator Orange have again been called, through many Facebook pages created to denounce the bad quality of service of the company, to boycott its products and services on 12 November 2015. If they cannot prevent the use of their chip either for work, or to answer in potential emergency situations, the organisers of this Orange boycott day are asking the...

In Geneva, Sotheby's auctioned the most expensive jewel in the world to a Hong Kong buyer. The sale set a record for price per carat (over €4 million per carat). "This is a record price for a precious stone and per carat", David Bennett, Global President of the international jewellery department of Sotheby's. The 12-carat blue stone was discovered in January 2014 by Petra Diamonds Ltd in...

The world demand for gold reached 1120.9 tons during the 3rd quarter 2015, an increase of 8% compared to the same period in 2014, according to a report from the Gold World Council (GWC) published on 12 November. The increase in the demand is mainly justified by the low price levels for this precious metal during the period under review, the organisation which gathers the main world gold...

French Sunna Design and Lendosphère are offering an original solution for electrification based on solar power. It is indeed a micro-network capable of powering four households, which draws energy from a solar streetlamp used at the same time to provide light for the area surrounding the supplied households. Sunna Design who engineered this equipment developed jointly with CEA-INES, the first...

Africa will be the first region in the world to consolidate its development on renewable energies. "I am very excited about this. In the world energy history, other regions were developed mainly on coal. But in Africa, we have great chances of seeing for the first time an economic growth based on clean energy" Fatih Birol, President of the International Energy Agency, declared during the launch...

The petroleum firm Tradex, subsidiary of Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (SNH) specialized in the trade, bunkering and retailing of petroleum end-products, is now present in four of CEMAC’s member-states. Indeed, after Cameroon, Central African Republic and Chad, the company officially launched its activities in Equatorial Guinea on November 3, 2015, an official release reveals Tradex...

Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL), Cameroon’s giant in the telecom industry, is currently preparing to launch the country’s first Triple Play offer (service where all subscribers have access to Internet, Telephony and Television), Alwihdainfo.com said reporting a conversation with CAMTEL’s Director General, David Nkotto Emane. This offer which should go online before “January 2016”...

The new Nigerian government of 36 members has finally been sworn in this Wednesday 11 November, more than 5 months after the election of president Muhammadu Buhari. The inauguration ceremony took place in the residence of President Buhari, who has been actively criticised by Nigerian businessman and foreign investors for taking too long in constituting his first term government. Talking about...