SENEGAL : Livestock contributes 7% to GDP
The livestock sector is of paramount importance in agricultural economies of West Africa, including Senegal, where it contributes 7% to the gross domestic product (GDP), […]
Month: January 2015
Côte d’Ivoire: CFAO receive contracts of € 4.18 million from AfDB
Few year after the return of the African Development Bank at its headquarters in Abidjan, thinks are going well for companies and service providers which […]
Fitch maintains a “B” rating of Ivory Coast, with a positive outlook
The credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has announced on the 9th January 2015 in a statement, to have maintained the sovereign rating of “B” of […]
Banking: Zimbabwe seeks the support of Afrexim Bank
According to the information published by the Financial Gazette, a local media based in Zimbabwe which quoted John Mangudya, the Governor of the Central Bank […]
Cameroon: Military neutralizes second Boko Haram attack
Boko Haram has been pushed back by Cameroonian forces after it attempted to take a military camp in Kolofata, located almost 10kilomtreres away from the […]
Maroc Telecom, Top 5 Moroccan Brands on Facebook
Maroc Telecom, the partly state-owned telecommunications operator in Morocco, has once again dominated the top five Moroccan brands on Facebook with 1.74 million fans registered […]
Algeria: More than $70 billion to develop shale gas exploration despite protests
State-owned Sonatrach is adamant with its plans to exploit shale gas despite the protests of the habitants in the region. The Managing Director of the […]
DRC: A conference on economic growth took place in Kinshasa
A conference on economic growth in the DRC took place from 8th to 9th January in Kinshasa. The participants of the forum have reflected on […]
Togo to resume cocoa and coffee production
Seventy thousand (70,000) cocoa pods and 445,000 coffee cuttings were formally handed over to cocoa and coffee producers on Thursday by the Togolese Minister of […]
Ivory-Coast: EU plans to invest € 60 million per year.
The European Union (EU) will strengthen economic cooperation with Ivory-Coast in 2015 with a financial contribution of almost € 60 million per year for five […]