Algeria has decided to teach the Tamazight language to media professionals and literary artists. The activity will be supported by the High Council for Amazighity (HCA) which announced that the first training session will take place from 1st to 4th September 2014 at the National Library of El-Hamma. The training is open to all journalists from public and private press, whether from national or...

French charter airline Air Méditerranée will launch this winter new routes to Dakar (from Marseille) as well as Boa Vista and Sal in Cape Verde (from Nantes and Paris-Charles de Gaulle), reported specialised website Air Journal, on 26 August. The Marseille-Dakar journey will be carried out as a regular service, since the company has traffic rights for Dakar, and also as tourist flights as a...

According to a communiqué from the General Director of the Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority (ARTP) of Senegal, published on 26 August 2015, a new telecom fraud network has been dismantled by the police. After the Sonatel and Tigo cases, respectively in July 2015 and July 2015, this new fraud case on incoming telecom calls affected the network of mobile telephone operator...

293 solar panels and 93 streetlamps, for a production capacity of 73 KW of electric energy per day. This summarises the mini-solar power plant, with a global cost of FCfa 454 million, which the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies has just offered to the town of Mvomeka’a (photo), hometown of the head of state of Cameroon located in the Southern region. The infrastructure was commissioned on 27...

French journalists, Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, are in custody since 27 August in Paris for attempted blackmail and extortion on the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI. They spent the night at the Brigade de Répression de la Délinquance contre la Personne (BRDP – Bureau of Criminal Investigation on Crimes against Persons). Both journalists are suspected of trying to extort money from...

In Côte d’Ivoire the national cocoa traders have decided to react to the supremacy of their international counterparts in the sector. In order to become more competitive, they have decided to create an Ivorian Traders Association (GNI). This structure is the result of the merger of six cocoa and coffee export companies, indicated the press note. Conscious of the issues which led to the...

Sanlam one of the largest financial services groups in South Africa is aiming for a potential acquisition in Angola, the company's senior official told Reuters, as it look for new streams of income to offset slowing growth. "At this very moment, we are in discussions in Angola," said Heinie Werth, head of Sanlam's emerging markets unit. "Angola was always on our radar." Werth stated that his...

The Moroccan company Les Eaux Minérales d'Oulmès recently announced the takeover of a Beninese company. Indeed, Eau Technologie Environnement (ETE) fell under the authority of the Moroccan business which acquired 45.79% shares from the Cauris Croissance fund and 9.26% from Christian Mondjanagni, its founder. With 55% shares in the capital of ETE, Les Eaux Minérales d'Oulmès can now roll out...

The property development housing the Saint John Plazza, one of the most well know theatres in the economic capital of Cameroon, will be auctioned on 17 September 2015 in Douala, in the offices of the District Court of Wouri, announced a communiqué on the sale of foreclosed properties from the law firm Michel Vouckeng. This sale will be executed under the warrant of Union Bank of Cameroon (UBC),...

The Congolese government announced, in a communiqué published on 24 August, having revised downward its growth prospects for 2015 to 8.4% against a previous figure of 9.2% when prices for copper have reached their lowest level in 6 years. The economy of the largest producer of the red metal in Africa registered a growth of 9.5% in 2014, according to official data. “The raw materials market,...