Angola appoints Jose Pedro de Morais as new central bank governor
Angola’s President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has replaced the central bank Governor Jose de Lima Massano with Jose Pedro de Morais according to the information […]
Articles by Khalid Al Mouahidi
Ghana: Asanko Gold Advances Project Development, Draws $40M in Debt
Asanko Gold Inc. will release towards the end of the first quarter of 2015 the Phase 2 of feasibility studies of the proposed gold mine […]
Mobile banking: MTN and Ecobank to serve 12 countries
The South African telecom operator MTN and Ecobank pan-African bank have joined their action in an agreement to integrate their services to their clients. The […]
Tunisia: SME Finance Bank has financed 1543 projects in 2014
The Tunisian Bank for small and medium enterprises (BFPME) has announced on the 20th January that it has granted loans amounting to a total of […]
Ivory Coast: AfDB has financed more than 70 operations since 1971
Since the start of its operations in Ivory Coast in 1971, the African Development Bank (AfDB) had funded more than 70 operations at the end […]
Kenya: Japan lends $270 mn loan to help expand Mombasa port
The government of Kenya has signed a $270 million loan deal with Japan last week to help expand the capacity at Mombasa port, a busy facility […]
Ecobank to appeal $15 million ruling
In a recent article published on this website, it’s announced that Ecobank Transnational Corporation (ETI) was ordered by the commercial court of Abidjan to pay […]
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde to Visit Rwanda and Senegal
Ms. Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will visit Rwanda from 26th to 29th January, 2015, and Senegal from 29th […]
Nigeria: UBA joins the ranks of Vodafone Global Enterprise
Vodafone Nigeria have announced last week that the Nigeria’s commercial bank United Bank for Africa (UBA) has become the first multinational Nigerian company to join […]
Ecobank ordered to pay former CEO Thierry Tanoh $12.3m
Ten months after his departure as CEO of the Pan-African bank Ecobank, Thierry Tanoh is poised to become a billionaire. This wealth does not necessarily […]