The World Bank considered on 21st May that the growth of the Ethiopian economy should be at 9.5 % during the current fiscal year that ends in June before reaching 10.5 % during the exercise 2015/2016. The chief economist of the World Bank, Lars Christian Moller, specified that « the oil …
Voir Plus »ADB: the last glory moments of Donald Kaberuka
The Rwandan, Dr. Donald Kaberuka, is living his last glory and happiness moments as chairman of the African Development Bank (ADB). He will reach the end his mandate in September. His successor will be revealed on the coming 28th May at the head office of the Bank in Abidjan. During …
Voir Plus »Emergence of Africa: All to be decided in Abidjan from 18th to 20th March
About forty countries working for emergence as well as about twenty institutions and heads of States are expected from 18th to 20th March at the first international conference on the emergence of Africa that will be held in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan. The announcement was jointly made on Thursday …
Voir Plus »Africa Best Practices Forum: 200 decision-makers expected in Lomé
Lomé, the Togolese capital, welcomes the first edition of the Africa Best Practices Forum on 26th and 27th February 2015. The Pan-African bank, Ecobank, the AfricSearch recruitment agency and the Ellipse communication company join together to organize this first forum exclusively dedicated to the improvement of the framework and the …
Voir Plus »Guinea Bissau: the first cement factory soon
The news is reported by APA News. The World Bank estimates the cement works project in Guinea Bissau at 22 million euros for a production capacity of 200.000 tons per year, indicated a communiqué from the world financial institution. The promoters requested a loan for 11 million euros, the half …
Voir Plus »Doing Business 2015: 5 African countries in the Top 10 reformers
World Bank published on 29th October 2014 the 12th Doing Business report on business climate improvement in the world. The study that concerned 189 countries revealed the effort of African governments regarding reforms. Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Democratic Republic of Congo are five African countries that proceeded to …
Voir Plus »Ivory Coast: Opening of the 1st edition of Africa Agri Forum in Abidjan
Africa Agri Forum, the regional event for agriculture in French-speaking Africa organized by I-Conférences, opened on Monday in Abidjan in the presence of various participants coming from several countries of the continent and from international institutions. For two days (13th and 14th October) the works will concern the theme « Which …
Voir Plus »DR of Congo: the most important of clean energy tank in Africa
Africa is the continent that has the lowest rate access to electricity whereas its fossil and renewable energy resources are colossal. According to a report from the World Bank published in 2013, 1, 2 billion individuals in the world live without electricity. One third of them are concentrated in twenty …
Voir Plus »Good governance: Guinea admitted at the ITIE
The expectation will have lasted about ten years. Since 2nd July 2014, Guinea is member of the Initiative for Transparency in the Mining Industries (ITIE). This new status of the country marks the will of the government and the other members of the mining sector to work for transparency and …
Voir Plus »BRICS: New Development Bank, the bank of emerging countries
The BRICS sixth summit that was is held in Brazil on 16th and 17th July 2014 was the opportunity for 5 emerging countries (Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa and India) to officially announce the creation of their bank of development, the New Development Bank (NDB). The New Development Bank …
Voir Plus »Togo: World Bank financing a center of excellence in avian science
The quality education in Africa is one of the important sections of the fight against poverty policy of the World Bank. A factor not the slightest that aims at stimulating the shared growth. Last Tuesday in Lomé, the institution made a commitment with the Togolese government to finance the building …
Voir Plus »National reforms: Rwanda, a model
According to the report of the Country Policy and Institutional Assesment (CPIA) of the World Bank, Rwanda is the African country the most involved in economic reforms during the year 2013. Over a total of 6, Kigali obtained a mark of 3,9. During this period, Rwanda substantially improved its public …
Voir Plus »World Bank: 107 million dollars to the victims of sexual violence in Africa
According to the United Nations, 3.635 people among whom a very great majority of women were victims of sexual violence in DR of Congo between January 2010 and December 2013. In order to bring a psychological, sanitary and economic help to these women having survived from « sexual assaults or based …
Voir Plus »2nd IPA 2014 prize-winner: Jules Logou congratulated by Togolese President
The Togolese Jules Minsob Logou, the inventor of « Foufoumix » machine, honours his country by winning on 5th May 2014 in Abuja, Nigeria, the 2nd Innovation Prize for African (PIA) edition 2014. And the piece of news makes the pride of a whole nation mainly the one of the Togolese Head …
Voir Plus »Business: African actors are sharing experiences in Lomé
About sixty actors of private entrepreneurship in Africa coming from Togo, Nigeria, Ghana and Benin, from various business sectors have been taking part since this Tuesday in Lomé in a regional seminar – workshop of ABR (Round Table of Businessmen of Africa). Organized with the support of African Development Bank …
Voir Plus »World Bank: Creation of 19 African centers of excellence soon.
The World Bank wants to make of adequacy training – employment, a reality in Africa. The institution has just allocated a 150 million dollars envelope for the creation of the African centers of excellence in seven (7) countries of west and central Africa. With African centers of excellence, World Bank …
Voir Plus »Sub-Saharan Africa: meeting with growth in 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa will get 5,2 % growth in 2014. It is what Africa’s Pulse of the World Bank published on 7th April. In 2013, the growth of this region of Africa was estimated at 4,7 %. This jump is due to household consumption, to investment in infrastructures and in natural …
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