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.
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African Union Moves to End AIDS by 2030
New York, USA, July 5//-African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. One of the initiatives-the community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020.
Africa’s Top Civil Servants Build Capacity on Industry Policy
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.
UBA, MasterCard in Landmark Pan African Partnership
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.
ECOWAS Bank Finances Ultramodern Shopping Mall in Kumasi
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.
Orange to Connect Benin to ACE submarine cable
Orange together with the other members of the ACE consortium, announced the launch of the ACE cable in Cotonou, Benin and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
New IFC and Ecobank Facility to Finance SMEs in Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today announced the launch of a $110 million risk-sharing facility that will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in fragile and conflict-affected states in West and […]
Asia Tops Survey On Counterfeit Electrical Products in Africa
Schneider Electric, the world specialist in energy management, released the first survey on electrical counterfeiting products ever conveyed in Africa.
Global Active Mobile Money Accounts Stand At 103 Million
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.
Ebola: African Countries Avoid Major Economic Loss
The Ebola epidemic will continue to cripple the economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone even as transmission rates in the three countries show significant signs of slowing, according to a World Bank Group analysis on the economic impact of Ebola in Africa.