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The steering committee of the Marathon of Gabon organizes the third edition from 28th to 29th May 2015. Henceforth registered on the agenda of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the event will have a particular connotation this year. « This year, the third edition aims to be very important, …

His performances at the head of the African export-import bank (Afreximbank) are unanimously appreciated by his peers. The Ivorian Jean-Louis Ekra leaves the chair of the bank after 10 years of loyal duties. AfricSearch and his close relations decided to award him the Global African Achievers Awards. The award honors …

The Gabonese government invests in the capacity building of journalists. The parliament has just passed the law carrying creation of the National fund for the development of the press. For a mount of 2 billion FCFA, the fund will take into account print media, broadcasting and news agencies. The new …

Closed on 26th May in Ndjamena (Chad), the 16th ordinary session of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) appointed the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo at the head of the institution. The Gabonese thus succeeds to his Chadian counterpart, Idriss Deby Itno. The new boss of Central Africa is …

The international AIMES-AFRIQUE NGO, faithful to its objective to bring hospital towards the populations, starts a new mission of surgical operations in the South of Togo from 1st to 6th June 2015. All in all, 525 patients (416 in general surgery and 109 in ophthalmology) will undergo surgical operations free …

Investgations on the circumstances concerning the death of the former Burkinabe president Thomas Sankara are in progress since the fall of Compaoré’s regime by the street uprising. After the arrival of the widow Mariam Sankara in Burkina Faso, then heard by the national jurisdictions, the exhumation corpses of Thomas Sankara …

During the 5th edition of the annual Mobile Money Expo that is held in Lagos, Nigeria, Ingenico Group, the world leader for the integrated payment solutions received the much desired prize by the Financial Inclusion Platform of the Year. In recognition of its initiatives regarding financial inclusion through Africa, Ingenico …

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 …

The director Abderrahman Sissako, chair of the jury of the Ciné Fondation in the Cannes film festival 2015 revealed on Friday the names of the prize-winners.   The author of the famous movie « Timbuktu » and his jury awarded the first prize to the director Ignacio Juricic Merillan from Chile, author …

For the edition 2015, the Global Retail Banking Awards rewarded pan-African bank, Ecobank in the category of the « Retail Bank« . The award evening took place last Friday in London. The group that has its head office in Lomé (Togo) was competing in this category with the CRDB Tanzania, FirstRand (South …

Africa Top Success was announcing that the fourth edition of the International Fair on Energy, Mines and Quarries (SEMICA) will be held from 28th to 30th May 2015 in the Burkinabe capital. In front of repetitive attacks by armed groups in certain countries of West Africa, the steering committee has …

Organized outside the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (ADB), the edition 2015 of the African Youth Forum is a competition opportunity for the best projects by the young leaders of the continent. 10 development projects initiated by young people among 139 that participate in the African Youth Forum …

After 10 year journey full circle, the KORA All-Africa Music Awards is back to Namibia for the edition 2015. It is a little known fact that the event is actually the joint brainchild of the Namibian President, Dr. Hage Geingob and Mr. Ernest Coovi Adjovi, at that time living in …

The managing director of the rail transports public company (SNTF), Yacine Bendjaballah, announced on 19th May that Algeria is going to buy 17 railcars for about 200 million Euros at the French group, Alstom, « We are very soon going to have 17 Coradia Alstom railcars for an amount of 21 …

The 15th edition of the international short film festival « Clap Ivore » will take place from 1st  to 2nd September 2015 in Abidjan. The Togolese authorities encourage their fellow countrymen to participate in the event that rewards young African directors. According to a press release published by the minister for Communication, …

The minister for post offices and digital economy, Cina Lawson announced last Tuesday the launch of two competitions within framework of the activities marking the celebration of the world telecommunications day. These competitions aim at arousing creativity and innovation in the youth. The first competition will reward the best mobile …

The 47th summit of the heads of State and government of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) held on Tuesday in Accra (Ghana) was an unsuccessful meeting to limit the presidential terms to two in this region. According to BBC Africa, Togo and Gambia rejected the proposal of …

The 47th summit of the heads of State and government of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) ended last Tuesday in Accra with the election of the Senegalese president Macky Sall at the head of the institution. President Macky Sall so succeeds to his Ghanaian counterpart John Mahama …

Nine African female artists and the Nollywood star Omotola Jalade Ekeinde give their voices to poor and vulnerable women of the continent. With their title « Strong girl » written and recorded in South Africa, the new faces of the emergent Africa mobilize beside the ONE foundation in order to call on …

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Beninese artist Angélique Kidjo received an honorary Doctorate degree from Yale University, one of the United States of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. The Minister was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters at Yale’s …

Ivory Coast is no more satisfied with its status of the world leader regarding cocoa production. The country of Alassane Ouattara also makes a commitment in the on-the-spot processing of its products. The first chocolate factory of Ivory Coast was opened last Monday in Abidjan by President Ouattara. The new …

The edition 2014 of RFI Discovery Award is launched. The registration for the competition that promotes musical talents of the African continent is in progress on line. As for the previous editions, the Prize-winner of the RFI Discovered Award benefited from 10 000 euros, a tour in Africa and a …

The Brigadier general, Jean Clotaire Thierry Oyé Zu, recently appointed at the head of the Gabonese national police forces, intends to clean the house. The General announced on 15th May a series of measures that aims at giving responsibilities to policemen and to remake the image of this department. In …

It is henceforth possible to become a chartered accountant of the WAEMU space thanks to the strategic partnership that has just occurred between the Academic of Felix Houphouet-Boigny national polytechnic institute (INPHB) of Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast) and the Business College (ESA) of Togo. The partnership agreement was signed last Saturday …

The Togolese minister for agriculture, breeding and Fishing, Ouro-Koura Agadazi, announced on the official information site of the country the next starting up of the building project of a fishing harbor in the village of Gbétchogbé. The new infrastructure will include a landing wharf, a dock for canoes and a …

The exercise 2014 ended with satisfaction for CICA-RE. The Common Reinsurance Company for the member States of the African Conference of the Insurance Markets (CICA) has realized a turnover of 30 billion, better than the previous year when it achieved 25.9 billion FCFA. The news was revealed last Friday during …

The Moroccan giant, Attijariwafa Bank is announced in Egypt. According to the Jeune Afrique Magazine that revealed the broke the news, the group managed by Mohamed El Kettani, is getting ready to buy back the Piraeus Bank Egypt detained at 98.3 % by the Greek banking group, Piraeus. In case …

Two Togolese business managers are nominated for the final phase of the African Prize for Emergence and Development (Pafed). They are Ceco Btp Group CEO, Amouzou Constantin and Aguem Mazna, manager of Telemobile International. A total of 11 countries as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Equatorial …

The American Magazine, Forbes, published its list of the world 2000 largest companies. Only 21 African companies appear in this prestigious list. South Africa takes the lion share with 13 companies. Nigeria, the first economic power of Africa comes in the second position with 4 companies. The countries of the …

Last Friday during a workshop for capacity building of the members of Parliament and social movements on the mining legislation of Senegal, the M23 (Movement of 23rd June) expressed its desire to see its country equipped with a mining legislation that does not violate the rights of the nationals in …