The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has just announced a financial aid of FCfa 300 million to Côte d’Ivoire. This funding is intended to help the country in the fight against the avian influenza which has been hitting the country since 2015. According to Germain Dasylva, FAO representative in Côte d’Ivoire, this sum will be used to implement an active...

According to the conclusions of the survey of macroeconomic forecasts achieved in Togo for the fiscal year 2014, the banking sector contributed more weakly to private investment in the country. Thus, in spite of a clear improvement in production indicators, the document mentions that the majority of small enterprises still face financial constraints. “Bank financing is weak and this weakness...

The executive board of the Tunisian insurance company AMI Assurances announced in a communiqué published on 28 August, the decision to launch a capital increase of 33 million dinars (about $17 million). This increase of capital will be subject to the approval of an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on 3 October 2015. Owned by the l’Union générale tunisienne du travail...

According to the latest report on the state of the Algerian telecom market, released on 30 August 2015 by the Post and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ARPT), mobile network operator Mobilis is the leader for 3G. The mobile network subsidiary of the national operator, Algérie Telecom, has 3.816 million subscribers, followed by Ooredoo (3.438 millions) and Djezzy (1.254 millions). Market...

A coalition of parties from the Ivorian opposition led by ex-prime minister Charles Konan Banny (photo), threatened, on 31 August, to stand in the way of the presidential election scheduled to take place on 25 October if the government does not start discussions on the composition of the national electoral commission, the voters’ lists and the insecurity which prevails in some regions. The...

In Burkina Faso, there is almost no media company that could survive after having paid a fine of FCfa 10 to 15 million for a press offence. It will be a prescription for death. The alarm has been raised by several professional media organisations among them the Burkina Faso Association of Journalists (AJB). They have published a joint communiqué to react to the government proposal abolishing...

300 million Mauritian rupees, this is the total sum of advertising revenue that the public broadcasting group of Mauritius is yet to recover. This represents a little over USD 8.5 million which should have been collected in the coffers of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). The revelation was made by information website lexpress.mu which gained access to a report from the Ministry of...

It is only a question of time before Rwanda is readmitted in the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) which gathers 10 member-states: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome & Principe and Chad. “The ratification process for the readmission order of Rwanda in the CEEAC is following its normal course through the...

The management of the Telecommunications and Posts Regulatory Agency (ARTP) confirmed the launch of the portability of mobile telephone numbers is still scheduled for Tuesday 1st September 2015. It coming into force should increase competition on the national telecommunications market. Consumers will have full powers and freedom to not put up with bad network or service quality from any telecom...

The Agricultural Processing and Rural Development Company (Société de transformation agricole et de développement rural – Sotrader), result of a public-private partnership between the state of Gabon and Singapore group Olam International announced, in a communiqué published on 30 August, the signing of a USD 140 million contract with Caterpillar group. This contract is for the purchase of...