In Basse-Kotto, herders are regularly attacked by armed men. Some have lost their herds and others are robbed of large sums of money. Insecurity does not favor the supply of the city and beef is expensive on the markets. From our correspondent, back from Alindao, Cattle market located at PK3, east exit of the town … Read more
Cameroon has just received its last batch of Montbéliarde cows from France to develop its milk sector. Thanks to these cows, Cameroon hopes to fill its milk production deficit estimated at 120,000 tonnes per year. Al Hadji Magra received 20 cows in March 2021. Almost two years later, he takes stock. « It gives me good … Read more
From our correspondent in Brazzaville, Street vendors, cobblers, basket makers, small farmers: in Congo-Brazzaville, all these actors operate in the informal sector. To them, we must add bus and taxi drivers, whom Patrick Milandou, president of the union of land transport employers, wants to see exercise differently. ” We are going to make a recommendation … Read more
It is established that in Congo-Brazzaville, the informal economy employs more than the public service and the private sector. But it totally or almost escapes regulation and taxation. The first edition of the assizes, which the government held at the beginning of the month, aimed to target the challenges and the solutions to meet them. … Read more
In Senegal, more and more taxi drivers are offering mobile payment, “mobile money”. A large-scale study by MIT in partnership with Wave looked at the effects of this financial revolution for taxi drivers and owners. From our correspondent in Dakar, It’s the new must-have accessory in the yellow taxis of Dakar: a QR code to … Read more
Raising marine worms to cope with the decline of species affected by sea pollution and climate change is the risky bet of the start-up Tunisia Baits, which is developing a marine worm farm in the north of the country in Bizerte, after eight years of research in aquaculture. At first glance, there is no guessing … Read more
In the Fouta-Djalon region, in central Guinea, the tapade is a piece of land where, traditionally, a few vegetables are grown, a banana tree, a coffee tree. With a lot of natural fertilizers, it is an intensive agriculture that obeys an ideal of food self-sufficiency. But that’s not all, in the tapade, you can also … Read more
It was last November, a clap of thunder resounded in the sky of African e-commerce. The two founders of Jumia, the French Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, founders of the company, were disembarked from the management by the shareholders, dissatisfied with the lack of results. Since then, the Franco-Ivorian Francis Dufay has refined a recovery … Read more