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On the invitation of the chairwoman of the African Union Commission, Dlamini Nkosazana-Zuma, the former president of the Republic of Benin, Nicéphore Soglo has stayed since last Monday in the South African capital town, Pretoria. During two days, the Beninese former president and the other important personalities of the continent …

At 24 years old, the Kenyan Anthony Mutua invents the shoes that recharge batteries. In fact, he used Nike sports shoes as samples. The idea is to use the energy created by the movements of our body to generate electricity that can thus recharge batteries of mobile phones or other …

The first Global Ecovillage Summit (GES), planned in Dakar from 10th to 14th December of this year, will allow strengthening the leadership of Senegal which promotes a new integrating vision, economy, environment and culture, declared on Thursday, Ousmane Aly Pame, chairman of the Pan-African ecovillage Network. About forty countries will …

The South-South partnership is the pillar of development expected in Africa, asserted on Wednesday in Marrakesh, expert economists who participate in the 9th edition of the African Development Forum. The classic partnership types between the North and the South were ruled by the law of the strongest and were not …

Project leaders participating in the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA 2015) can continue sending their application until 31st October 2014 at 11:59 pm GMT by visiting the site http://innovationprizeforafrica.org/?fr=1 It is the content of a communiqué published by African Innovation Foundation (FAI). Communiqué relayed on Tuesday, 7th October in Madagascar …

Initially planned from 15th to 22nd November 2014 in Ouagadougou at the « Maison du people », the 11th edition of the Scientific Research and Technological Innovation National Forum (FRSIT) is postponed to a later date because of the sanitary situation caused by the spreading of Ebola virus in the West African …

In spite of the crises on the African continent, there are all the same reasons for hope. And it is pleasing to get encouragements and supports from the international community, from the UNO in particular. In the opening on Thursday of the 23rd summit of the African Union in Malabo, …