Abidjan, Ivory Coast, May 24, 2018//-According to GTAI Germany Trade & Invest of 16 May 2018, Côte d’Ivoire is becoming the bread basket of West Africa. Agriculture and the food industry, especially in Abidjan, have been very dynamic for years, both in production and processing.
Dakar, Senegal, June 10, 2017//– The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) hosted senior civil servants from 20 African countries for a course on Industrial Policy in Africa aimed at strengthening their capacity in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating appropriate strategies to facilitate the structural transformation of the continent’s economies.
London, UK, June 7, 2017//- After an exceptional first season, that saw more than 10 million people in Cameroon and 9 million viewers in Ivory Coast alone tuning in every Saturday, for five months, Voxafrica TV has launched the second season of the highly rated flagship TV show, in French Speaking Africa.
New York, USA, May 29, 2017//- An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project shows that significant reserves of good quality water are available in Africa’s drought-prone Sahel region.
What a difference a century makes. If we stepped back in time to a hundred years ago we’d find a primitive China; a Middle East that had yet to discover the riches of oil and most of Southeast Asia consisted of countries that were barely distinguishable from medieval societies. It was an entirely different world.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, the leading pan-African banking group and MasterCard, a global payments technology company have announced a partnership which will see UBA act as the issuer for MasterCard in 18 new markets in Africa.
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has agreed to give a $ 20 million credit facility towards the construction of an ultra-modern shopping mall that would serve as a one-stop shop in Kumasi, Ghana.
In spite of the current economic challenges and rising inflation on other sectors of the economy which Ghana’s mobile telecom operators rely on (light, water, rent, among others) to be productive, they still charged the lowest domestic call rates in Africa.
History teaches us that Africa will not be able to lift people out of poverty, substantially improve well-being, and reduce inequalities, if it cannot sustainably power itself.
Customers of Orange Money in Côte d’Ivoire can use their mobile phones to send money to customers of Airtel Money in Burkina Faso, and vice versa.
