Pas de revanche pour les Bejaouis ! Pour le compte du déroulement des quarts de finale de la coupe d’Algérie, le Mouloudia Club d’Alger a reçu en ce vendredi 02 Mars 2018 l’autre Mouloudia, celui de Bejaia. Un match qui avait opposé l’actuel 3è au classement général de la ligue …
Voir Plus »Forum des hommes d’affaires algéro-turcs: le partenariat économique à l’ordre du jour
En marge de la visite de trois jours du président Turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan en Algérie, les discussions entre l’Algérie et la Turquie ont porté essentiellement sur les relations entre les deux pays, tant sur le plan sécuritaire, politique et économique. Durant son périple, l’hôte de l’Algérie a assisté mardi …
Voir Plus »Fifa ranking: Algeria, 1st football country in Africa
FIFA (International Federation of Football Association) revealed its new ranking on Thursday. The top three on does not change. Algeria (world 21st) always tops the African football followed by Ivory Coast (world 24th) at only 10 points before the next meetings of the eliminating heats of AFCON 2017. Tunisia keeps …
Voir Plus »Cannes Film Festival: Double reward for Abderrahmane Sissako
The director Abderrahman Sissako, chair of the jury of the Ciné Fondation in the Cannes film festival 2015 revealed on Friday the names of the prize-winners. The author of the famous movie « Timbuktu » and his jury awarded the first prize to the director Ignacio Juricic Merillan from Chile, author …
Voir Plus »Banking: Attijariwafa announced in Egypt
The Moroccan giant, Attijariwafa Bank is announced in Egypt. According to the Jeune Afrique Magazine that revealed the broke the news, the group managed by Mohamed El Kettani, is getting ready to buy back the Piraeus Bank Egypt detained at 98.3 % by the Greek banking group, Piraeus. In case …
Voir Plus »African Banker Awards 2015: Find out the nominees!
Event exclusively dedicated to the African banking sector and that celebrates the successes of personalities and financial institutions that contribute to the quick modernization of the sector in Africa, African Banker Awards 2015 will take place during the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (ADB) on 27th May in …
Voir Plus »Prix Goncourt 2015: Kamel Daoud, prize-winner in the end!
His determination worked in his favor and today, he has the smile on his face. We hint at the Algerian writer and journalist, Kamel Daoud, who has just won the Prix Goncourt 2015 with his very first novel « Meursault, The Counter-Inquiry« , having missed the edition 2014. The writer received his …
Voir Plus »Boubacar N’diaye: among the builders of the African economy
If the African economic growth should reach 5,0 % in 2015 compared with 4,7 % last year as predicted it by the UNO World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014, it is thanks to the tenacity of entrepreneurs, businessmen, business managers, companies and African economic and financial institutions, but also the …
Voir Plus »Africa: E-commerce greatly increasing on the continent
The e-commerce is « greatly increasing » on the African continent and could, by 10 years, constitute 10 % of retail sales of the biggest African economies, says the « Global e-commerce Logistics 2015 study. « The advent of the e-commerce revolutionizes the local logistic practices and the physical distribution networks« , notes the study …
Voir Plus »World Happiness Report: Find out the happiest countries of Africa
Jeffrey D. Sachs, the manager of the Earth Institute, has just published his third world report happiness in association with John Helliwell and Richard Layard. The study concerns 158 countries all in all. Generosity, reliable level in the authorities, per capita income, health, social services, respect for liberties are among …
Voir Plus »Cairo: the Tunisian short film « Warda » won the Grand Prix of the Nile
« Warda« , the life passion by the Tunisian director, Mahmoud Jemni, has just won the Grand Prix of the Nile for the best short film during the African Film Festival of Luxor. The prize consists of a sample of the mask of Toutânkhamon and a bonus of 2000 dollars. Thirty seven …
Voir Plus »Pope Francis: the Supreme Pontiff denounces « terrorist acts » in Africa
Last Thursday in a message to 27 bishops from Kenya travelled to Vatican, Pope Francis denounced the ethnic violence and the « terrorist acts » in Africa as the recent massacre of about 150 students in Garissa. Church in Kenya must be « an instrument of reconciliation, justice and peace. I pray with …
Voir Plus »ICTS/Women entrepreneurs: China offers opportunities!
You are women entrepreneurs in the ICTS sector, you dream of improving your performance, exchanging with actors beyond Africa? Well, you now have the opportunity! Thanks to the joint initiative by the social enterprise, She Leads Africa and the Chinese, Huawei that provides solutions in the ICTS sector, you have …
Voir Plus »Algeria: lodge your complaint on-line now!
Algeria is at the forefront technology and the modernization of the public administration has become true. End of hassles, endless queues in front of court premises. It is henceforth possible to the Algerians to lodge an on-line complaint. This, through a device set up since Monday by the Algerian government. …
Voir Plus »Transport: Air Algérie receives its first Airbus A330-200
Air Algérie continues the modernization of its fleet. After the reception in December 2014 the first orders at Boeing and Airbus, Air Algérie received an Airbus A330-200 last 2nd April. The ceremony of reception took place in the presence of the Minister of Transport, Amar Ghoul and of the CEO …
Voir Plus »Harass Map: ICTS for the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt
The Egyptian Harass Map NGO has put on-line a web site and a mobile application which aim at indicating the harassment cases all over the Egyptian territory. The initiative is beneficial because numerous are the victims of fondling and inappropriate words and who do not succeed to denounce these denigrating …
Voir Plus »Mobile West Africa 2015: the future of the mobile decided in Lagos!
The mobile technology actors coming from all Africa and all over the world are meeting from 21st to 23rd April 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria on the occasion of the conference called Mobile West Africa 2015. It is an initiative from Basebone, world supplier of mobile services in partnership with Mozilla, …
Voir Plus »Gulli Africa: the new youth channel for Africa
Gulli Africa is the new youth TV channel by Lagardère Active in French language intended for the African continent televiewers. Launched on 25th March 2015, it is exclusively available in the packages of the Canal+ for the “Evasion” formula and broadcast in 22 countries in the sub-Saharan and French-speaking Africa. …
Voir Plus »Africa: Mobile Banking will weigh about 900 billion FCFA within 4 years
According to a study published by the strategy consulting international cabinet, BCG (Boston Consulting Group), while the Africans will use their mobiles to pay their invoices or send money to their close relations, the Mobile Banking prosperous market could reach a value of 1.5 billion dollar within 4 years. The …
Voir Plus »DEMO AFRICA 2015: applications opened for the African start-ups
New starting for DEMO Africa, the platform that connects the African start-ups to the world ecosystem, and applications for the edition 2015 are opened until next 31st May. Start-ups that would like to participate in the event can submit their application file on https://vc4africa.biz/demo-africa/. The applications will be examined by …
Voir Plus »Cairo: the most dynamic city in Africa!
Photo : Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Egyptian President. Life is good in Cairo, the Egyptian capital because it is a city of all opportunities. It is report entitled « Into Africa – The continent’s cities of opportunity » that reveals it. The document that lists the 20 most dynamic cities of Africa …
Voir Plus »Luxor International African Film Festival: Find out the prize-winners
The fourth edition of the Luxor International Film Festival (Egypt) started on 16th March 2015 and came to an end last Saturday in the Egyptian city with the consecration of several African movies realized by African film-makers on the continent. The movie « Timbuktu » by the Mauritanian director, Abderrahman Sissako, was …
Voir Plus »Eastern Film Festival of Geneva: 9 Algerian movies in the program
The kick-off of the tenth International Eastern Film Festival of Geneva (FIFOG, from 20th to 29th March) was given on Friday evening with the projection of the movie « Land of Absence – Meeting Adonis » by the Dutchman, John Albert Jansen, a documentary dedicated to the famous Syrian poet, Ali Ahmed …
Voir Plus »Chris Kiburi: the Kenyan multimillionaire appointed African manager of the year
The Kenyan businessman, Chris Kiburi,was appointed the African manager of the year during the 3rd edition of Africa CEO forum. The Algerian, Issad Rebrab, the founder of the Cevital group, was also elected just like Mr. Kiburi. Two « African CEOs of the year » thus succeed to the boss of Kalagadi …
Voir Plus »VULA: the application to diagnose eye problems in Africa
Suffering from eye diseases can become a real obstacle course in far distant zones of Africa when it is proved that the major part of ophthalmologists are found in the big cities. « Vula » that means ‘open‘ in Siswati, Xhosa and Zulu, is an application that could be a mini revolution …
Voir Plus »Mister Africa France: Who will be the most handsome man of the African diaspora?
Beauty competitions as Miss France, Mister France, Miss International Africa, are common in France. And for the first time, a Parisian event highlighting the beauty of men native of the African continent is established. It is about « Mister Africa France« , an initiative from the Boomer Events foundation, a company specialized …
Voir Plus »African All Stars: 45 years of African music on a single album
It is difficult to summarize 45 years of African music in 30 songs … Nevertheless, the African All Stars compilation lets express all the beauty and the wealth of the African music through many kinds: afro beat, afro-jazz, afro-pop, funk, rock, pop … Representing the diversity and the eclecticism of …
Voir Plus »Fespaco 2015: «Timbuktu» or the great forgotten
The success of « Timbuktu« , the movie by the Mauritanian director, Abderrahman Sissako, did not impress the Jury of the 24th Fespaco that ended on Saturday, 7th March 2014 in the Burkinabe capital town. The movie that scraped seven (7) over eight (8) Oscar in Paris a few days ago, …
Voir Plus »Fespaco 2015: honor to the Maghreb !!!
End of the suspense at the 24th Pan-African Cinema and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO). The Moroccan movie « Fièvre » by Hicham Ayouch won the Gold standard in front of « Fadhma N’Soumer » by the Algerian, Belkacem Hadjadj (Silver). « L’Œil du cyclone » by the Burkinabe, Sékou Traoré, won the « Sembène Ousmane » prize …
Voir Plus »Egypt: citizens bancarization soon thanks to their ID cards
A partnership between the Egyptian government and the giant MasterCard should allow equipping all the citizens of the country of the Pharaohs with smart ID cards. MasterCard announced on Tuesday in Barcelona to have negociated an agreement with the Egyptian government to provide a digital identification program connecting the Egyptian …
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