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Introduced by the « Unique star Media » production company, Congolese and Nigerian musicians made show on Thursday, 28th August at Tata Raphaël stadium of Kinshasa in Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the organizers, the idea is to valorize the African music in its diversity. Wenge Musica, Werrason’s parent company thus …

Sportsmen having marked the sports history of Senegal will have the merit to receive all possible honors of the country; this, through the building a national museum within the next days. The Head of State, Macky Sall announced the news on Wednesday in Dakar within the framework of the official …

Under its local identity of Nexttel, the Vietnamese mobile company, Viettel, the 3è in Cameroon, signed its start from next 18th September 2014. The new operator’s activities will start at the time Cameroon is getting ready to adopt a new 9-digit dialing code. It is further to « decisive » tests, network …

In Togo, it is listed among the rare multinationals managed by a Togolese and that resist to competition on the market of public works. CECO GROUP LTD Company works today with more than 3.000 collaborators in several sectors. its CEO, the engineer Constantin AMOUZOU, was nevertheless not planned to become …

Five million dollars is the additional financial envelope the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is going to grant in the coming days to support the fight against the Ebola epidemic that is destroying the sub-Saharan Africa. During a meeting with the press on Wednesday in Monrovia, Liberia, the …

After Bamako (in 2010), the Togolese video reporter Jean-Claude Abalo will exhibite his works from 15th September to 9th October at Maison de la Laïcité de la Louvière (Belgium). Son of the continent, Abalo tells the story of the other side of Africa, the one that has nothing to do …

He promised to stop music this year. Well, he definitively stopped it. We hint at Amadou Balaké, this great man of the culture of Burkina Faso and Africa who died last Wednesday, 27th August 2014. Disease took him aw. The musician died at the Notre-Dame de la Paix Clinic in …

The phenomenon of begging is recurrent in the country of Macky Sall, Senegal; Beggars of any sex and age as earth-worms at all street corners. Usually, they are handicapped persons, old leper, old ladies and poor children who devote themselves to this practice that has become in the course of …

Donald Kabéruka (photo), the boss of the African Development Bank (ADB) group, announced on Tuesday in Abidjan that his institution is going to pay out in the next days 150 million dollars or about 75 billion FCFA for the fight against the Ebola virus hemorrhagic epidemic that has already killed …

The Ivorian Ministry of Culture and the Francophony announced at the beginning of the week the submission of the application of the writer, Bernard Dadié for the Nobel Prize of Literature. The famous author, whose works have been for several years list in the academic program in several countries of …

Major concern in the African households and headache for companies, electricity expenses could get a reduction in the coming days in Kenya. In a declaration on Wednesday in Nairobi, the vice-president, William Ruto (photo) indicated that « government is planning to supply less expensive electricity to reduce the cost of businesses …

The finalist candidates for the edition 2014 of the Anzisha Prize are known. Twelve (12) young African entrepreneurs whose age is between 15 and 22 years old will defend their projects in Johannesburg (South Africa) from 18th to 25th September 2014 during the Anzisha week 2014. For the first time, …

The Congolese film-maker, Toko Diangani Watezwa proceeded on 22nd August 2014 to the official release of his full-length film « Le Sida est une réalité » in South Africa. As its title indicates it, the movie of 90 minutes makes sensitive on the HIV / AIDS with a particular touch. The director, …

Senegal is bustling about organizing the third edition of the International Mining Trade Fair of Senegal (SIM SÉNÉGAL 2014). One of the biggest West African meetings for the mining actors will be held from 4th to 6th November 2014 in Dakar. Organized by the Senegalese Ministry of Industry and Mining, …

Africa is getting ready to welcome the world biggest farm of flies. The AgriProtein start-up, winner of the edition 2013 of the Innovation Prize for Africa, discovered a technique to feed cattles with the larvae of flies. AgriProtein succeeded in raising 11 million dollars (8,2 million euros) for the extension …

Actors committed in the Internet development in Africa have been taking part in 5th African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) since Tuesday, 26th August in Dakar, Senegal. The initiative comes from the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (ARTP) and the African Regional Bureau of the Internet Society. According to …

West African States are multiplying their actions in favor of the so desired sub-regional integration. Up from 1st January 2015, the 15 member States of the ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) will use the Harmonized System (HS) of commodity description and coding. The HS objective is to reach …

The president of Republic of Benin, Boni Yayi, signed on 12th August 2014, the decision carrying re-election of the Ivororian, Tiémoko Meyliet KONE at the head of the West African Central Bank (WACB). This decision taken unanimously by the 8 heads of State of the WAEMU (West African Economic and …

The governor of the West African Central Bank (WACB), Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, and president of the West African Development Bank (WADB), Christian Adovèlandé, both have just obtained a new mandate for six (6) years. It was the Beninese president, Boni Yayi that assuming the functions of serving president of the …

Peace in Africa is the dream of all Africans as well as their leaders and actors continue mobilizing so that this peace reigns over the continent and to be sustainable. It is in this perspective that an international day of peace was introduced by the British director, Jeremy Gilley, creator …

Introduced in 2013 during the second edition of the Food-processing Industry International Fair of Lomé (SIALO), the GIZ / ProDRA innovation award aims at the valuation of local foodstuffs. The application for the second edition of the competition is opened and registrations continue until 2nd September on the official site …

The RDI-France buying group supports excellence in the countries where they operate, with the René Descamps prize of the name of its founder. In Togo, three schools (CS E-snam, Kpime Woume and SOS children’s village of Kara) won the prizes involved for this year. The pupils of the Hermann Gmeiner …

The Senegalese film-maker photographer, El Hadj Momar Thiam died on 19th August 2014 at the age of 84 years old. The last member of the Senegalese and African cinema pioneers still alive, died at his place of residence in Patte d’Oie Builders (Senegal) after several months of fight against disease …

The information hits the headlines of public media in Togo. The official information web site of Togo stands at the first position in the ranking established by the Jeune Afrique Magazine. www.republicoftogo.com with its mark of 8,5 far overtake by its Senegalese, South African and Kenyan competitors (7,17). African countries …

According to the GSM Association (GSMA), Tanzania passed in front of Kenya regarding the use of money transfer service by mobile. In terms of subscription to the service, 44 % of adults are registered in the country against 38 % in Kenya. In December 2013, the Tanzanian consumers generated a …

At the end of a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mário Lopes da Rosa, the former president of the Republic of São Tomé and Principe, the very new representative of the UNO Secretary General in Guinea-Bissau, Miguel Trovoada (picture), called on Friday Bissau Guineans « to work at the …

The Ivory Coast musical group, Magic System continues making the tour of the world with seven albums to their credit. And they dedicate their lightning success to the national and international press. « We owe our success to the press« , asserted the spokesman of the group Salif Traoré alias A’Salfo during …

Things went so fast on Wednesday, 20th August in the Mauritanian governmental team. One hour after the dismissal of Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, the Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz appointed a new Prime Minister in the person of Yahya Ould Hademine (picture). Engineer by training, Yahya Ould Hademine especially …

The first military aircraft made in Africa made successfully its first public test flight on Wednesday, 13th August at Wonderboom airport in Pretoria, South Africa, reported on Monday the Ecofin agency. According to the agency, two South African aeronautical groups, Paramount and Aerosud, developed this device that associates a helicopter …

Tunisia raised itself to an upper rank by appearing in the category of countries having a high global peace index being far ahead of the United States of America. Indeed, the Institute of Economy and Peace (IEP) has just published the Global Peace Index 2014. A world ranking of countries …