Gabon’s Public Treasury will issue securities and bonds worth 854 billion FCFA on the Central African financial market in 2024, the Minister of Budget and Public Accounts, Charles Mba, announced on Monday. The money will be raised every month. It will be used to finance major works and social projects planned in the National Development … Read more
2023-11-21 21:10:15 The increase from 32 to 48 teams for the 2026 World Cup simplifies the qualification method for African teams. The confederation saw its number of qualified selections increase from 5 to 9. Gone are the three-phase qualifiers (round-trip preliminary round between the weakest nations, group stage, play-offs), make way for a more readable … Read more
2023-09-25 05:06:23 Money Today Reporter Park Jeong-ryeol | 2023.09.25 14:06 [박정렬의 신의료인] Tuberculosis is known as the ‘disease of poverty.’ Even now, deaths are concentrated in low-income and developing countries in Asia and Africa, such as North Korea, Bangladesh, and Congo. In 1952, during the Korean War, tuberculosis was so prevalent in South Korea that … Read more
2023-08-19 16:02:00 (Ecofin Agency) – Since 2011, Congo has been served by a single international fiber optic submarine cable, the WACS. Failures that frequently occur on this infrastructure cause disruption of Internet services. The 2Africa fiber optic submarine cable from the eponymous consortium led by the American company Meta landed on the Congolese coast on … Read more
2023-07-03 11:31:34 Proparco and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) are committed to strengthening their investments in trade operations in Africa. This common desire for collaboration was revealed on Thursday June 29, 2023 by the agency for financing the private sector in developing countries (Proparco). Through this partnership, Proparco plans to participate up to 50% in … Read more
2023-05-13 20:57:00 Hassan Al-Saadani Saturday, May 13, 2023 11:57 PM The Referees Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) assigned the management of the meeting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon, in the fifth round of the 2023 African Cup of Nations qualifiers, to an Egyptian arbitration team. The Egyptian crew … Read more
An Australian teacher who went missing from Brazzaville in Congo on October 26 last year was found to have been poisoned to death by his ex-girlfriend and fed to crocodiles. Music teacher Mark Ciavarella was poisoned by his ex-girlfriend and thrown into a crocodile-infested lake. Mark Ciavarella, 57, from Leyton, New South Wales, arrived in … Read more
The Minister of Health and Population of the Republic of Congo, Gilbert Mokoki, said on Thursday that about 130,000 people are living with HIV in the country, according to 2021 statistics from UNAIDS. On World AIDS Day, he noted that the prevalence was 3.8% among people aged 15-49. According to him, 28,055 people have been … Read more