Tag Archives: Kenya

The international conference on the Great Lakes region (CIRGL) announces a possible relocation of the executive secretarial department of the institution for safety reasons. « During the summit of Luanda, the heads of State and of government of the CIRGL have decided the temporary relocation of the executive Secretarial department of …

Called « Indaba« , the tourist exhibition has just closed its doors in Durban, South Africa with satisfaction expressed by the organizers and exhibitors. As far as exhibitors are concerned, Uganda won the palm of the « Best exhibitor » of the African continent during this big meeting, followed by Kenya and Rwanda is …

Last Wednesday, the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, called on the American companies to invest in Africa, the second world region in a fast growth. As he could not physically be on the spot, Mr. Kenyatta expressed himself through video at the Milken World Conference in California and declared that Africa …

Within the framework of the celebration of the international day of happiness, the Gallup Poll firm has just published its ranking of the happiest countries of the world. Contrary to all expectations, the richest countries in the world are not necessarily the happiest. Latin America alone occupies the first ten …

According to James Mwangi, the CEO of Equity Group, Equitel, the virtual telephone company of the group, specialized in the mobile money, will have 5 million users before June 2015. It is the challenge settled by the company declares to have already registered 450 000 costumers. Equity Group is confident …

For those who would like to invest in consumer goods, well Africa is well indicated in the coming years. According to a study by the Deloitte office presented during a congress of distribution on Wednesday in Johannesburg, the continent will be « by 2017, the second market where to invest for …

The development of Africa passes by its investment in the new technologies. The French-Togolese businessman, JX Paulin, the promoter of MYSIMAX is conscious of that. He puts his skills acquired in this sector after almost two decades in China at the service of the African continent. His structure offers scholarships …

Senegal appears among the 12 countries with high and intermediary incomes outstripping the other countries of their group of income. Last Friday in Geneva (Switzerland), during the ranking of the Global Innovation Index 2014 (GII), the country occupied the African 9th position and the world 98th with a score of …

The Hollywood star of Kenyan origin, Lupita Nyong’o is riding high. Having hit the headlines of the famous magazine, Vogue, she is on the front page of ELLE magazine. Within one year, the most beautiful woman to the world according to People magazine got a global fame. The last publication …

At 12 years old, the young Nigerian, Marvelous Chukwu was appointed winner of Picture Football for Hope Siyakhona competition. The picture of Marvelous got 4166 votes and was elected among the 24 shortlisted. The prize-winner gave a comment on his picture as following: «My picture tells the story of a …

Good news for the Rwandan, Kenyan and Ugandan consumers. Up from 1st September 2014, the communication between these three countries will be charged in local rate. This was the decision that was just taken during the 6th summit of the « North Corridor Integration« . With the initiative « One-network-aera« , Rwanda, Kenya and …

The African States still have a long way to go regarding e-government. This is what a recent report of the UNO revealed. Africa obtains an average of 0, 27/1 while the world average is 0, 47/1. Beyond these figures far from brilliant, it is necessary to note the success of …

The States of East Africa and their private partners proceeded on 3rd July in Kigali, to the launching of the East African Exchange (EAX), a new regional commodity market. This new tool should participate in a better sale of farm products in this part of Africa. Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda …

Mozambicans attended to a major event on last 5th and 6th June in Maputo. It was the first edition of the TechCamp meeting in Southern Africa called « TechCamp« . Jointly organized by the United States embassy and the cooperation of Switzerland embassy, the objective was to teach how to use technology …

She continues making buzz on the Web with her most tantalizing pictures. It is about the Kenyan Corazon Kwamboka who has the most beautiful and biggest hips of Africa. Corazon Kwamboka is at present the idol in the country, very talented for the most daring and suggestive pictures. Certified in …

In 2007, when launching M-Pesa, money transfer system by mobile phone, Kenya could not imagine the success this revolutionary initiative was going to get. 7 years later the introduction of M-Pesa (mobile-money) in the daily life Kenyans, the result is more than satisfying. More than the half of the population …

At 36 years old, Ory Okolloh has everything to her credit. She is intelligent, funny, beautiful, mother of three children, and she is the major African woman specialist of digital in Africa. She was the big boss of Google Africa and she has just joined the American Omidyar Network foundation …