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.
Never before have so many people had to flee their homes as in 2016: more than 65 million refugees and internally displaced persons around the world fled from crises, violence and natural disasters. Africa is a particular focus of Germany’s humanitarian assistance, alongside the huge humanitarian crisis in Syria and its neighbouring countries.
GSMA, an association of mobile operators and related companies devoted to supporting the standardising, deployment and promotion of the GSM mobile telephone system has announced that the number of registered Mobile Money accounts globally now stand at 299 million of which 103 million are active.
A new World Bank Group report finds that Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest number of business regulatory reforms globally in 2013/14, with 74 percent of the region’s economies improving their business regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs.
