2023-12-20 23:10:02 Despite the adoption in 2017 of a “ regulation relating to roaming charges on mobile networks in the Cédéao area “, residents of the sub-region often continue to pay high prices for their calls and data when they leave their country. Unless they buy a local SIM every time they travel. But in … Read more
2023-12-19 23:11:03 The hunt for investments for African start-ups. Fundraising has declined significantly this year, as in the rest of the world. Investments fell further in the second half. How to find capital to grow? Meeting of African startupers during the Emerging Valley forum held in Marseille in November 2023. From our correspondent returning from … Read more
2023-12-14 23:05:02 The Congolese Ministry in charge of Decentralization is carrying out an operation in conjunction with the municipalities of large cities called “let’s keep our cities clean”. In Brazzaville, it involves clearing out makeshift markets and clearing the sidewalks. At the risk of plunging young informal sellers into poverty. From our correspondent in Brazzaville, … Read more
2023-12-13 23:03:07 Under construction since 2019 and financed by a sovereign loan of 90M euros from the French Development Agency (AFD), the large market of Bouaké should open its doors in the last quarter of 2024, 26 years after the fire which ravaged the old market and which made the city famous. Located halfway between … Read more
2023-12-10 23:13:02 Tourism in East Africa booming. Expectations, at least, are high. The East African Community anticipates 14 million tourists by 2025 compared to 7.2 million in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and the EAC encourages countries to diversify their offer sightseeing. In Kenya alone, the tourism office has set itself the objective of … Read more
2023-12-09 22:33:43 Nearly 600 million people on the African continent do not yet have access to electricity, and to remedy this, the President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, announced Wednesday, December 6 in Tanzania to allocate an envelope of five billion dollars. Objective: for 100 million more people to have access to electricity by … Read more
2023-11-04 21:52:02 In South Africa, the Agoa forum on free trade agreements between the United States and sub-Saharan African countries ended on Saturday, November 4, 2023. The 35 eligible countries called for the rapid renewal of the Agoa agreements which end in 2025 and to reform eligibility criteria considered too strict. Published on: 04/11/2023 – … Read more
2023-10-30 23:00:55 Congo still depends largely on food imports to feed its 5 million inhabitants. They are estimated at 700 billion CFA francs (1.060 billion euros) per year. Its ambition to achieve food self-sufficiency in the early 2000s has still not been achieved due, in particular, to a lack of lasting funding. From our correspondent … Read more