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Present in Washington for the first USA-AFRICA Summit, the Senegalese president, Macky Sall delivered his expectations to Jeune Afrique magazine. The only African president to have received and to be received in by the American president is waiting for answers from his American counterpart on economic and security questions.   …

Busy agenda for Hery Rajaonarimampianina within the framework of the USA-AFRICA summit. Arrived since Saturday on the American land, the president of Madagascar did not have necessary time for tourism. On Sunday, the Madagascan delegation took part in Believe in Africa day. With a GDP higher than 2000 billion dollars …

The first edition of « La nuit du Civisme » took place on Friday, 1st August 2014 the Togolese capital town. Organized by the the Observatoire Togolais de la Citoyenneté et du Développement, the evening (the first of the kind) rewarded natural persons and legal entities that are working for the rooting …

Further to the success got on the financial market of Burkina Faso (2nd behind Ecobank), Coris Bank International sets out to conquer Africa. Investigated after the missed missed attempts of Niger and Chad, the bank of the SME and the SMI settled down in Ivory Coast, in Mali (on 1st …

Ivory Coast celebrated on Friday, 1st August 2014, the second edition of the national day of excellence. The president of Republic, Alassane Ouattara seized the occasion to reward 55 prize-winners.   Since 2013 and on the eve of the celebration of the national Independence Day, Ivory Coast has been celebrating …

The first edition of the « Samba professionals » came to an end in Libreville (Gabon) this weekend after 5 days of training and exchanges with professionals of communication and business world. The participants got six modules presented by leading personalities of the continent as the former chairman of OM, Pape Diouf, …

A’Salfo, the vocal leader of the Magic System group and Dobet Gnahoré will be raised to the rank of Ambassador of Human Rights on Monday in Abidjan. Both Ivory Coast artists of international fame will be decorated by the Lord Chancellor, Minister of justice, human rights and public freedom, Mamadou …

Mark Zuckerberg has just marked an important point in his project that aims at offering internet to the poorest. Facebook launched on 31st July 2014, Internet.org, application that will allow more half of the world to be connected to Internet.   « Giving access to internet to the two thirds of …

Another big loss for the African culture; the famous Guinean choreographer, director and producer, Souleymane Koly, died on Friday in Conakry, Guinea, at the age of 69 years old, about two week before his 70th birthday anniversary.   The sad news is making tour of on-line magazines as well as …

Outside the USA – Africa summit that will take place on 5th and 6th August, meetings between African and American investors, called « US Africa Business Forum » as well as a meeting on the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) are planned.   In a communiqué published on Thursday by the government, …

The music festival « TribeOne Dinokeng » will be held on 26th, 27th and 28th September 2014 in the city of Tshwane (South Africa). Organized by Rockstar 4000 and Sony Music Africa, the event intends to be the meeting point of the African and foreign artists all over the world. For the …

The Togolese capital town has the merit to welcome the very first edition of the World Day of African Culture (JMCA) which will be held on 23rd, 24th and 25th January 2015.   A meeting, according to the founders, aiming at making shine the African cultural diversity at the level …

Grace Lath Akaffou was elected on Sunday, 27th July 2014 as the new chairwomen of the children parliament of Ivory Coast for a 4 year mandate. Grace Lath Akaffou placed her mandate under the sign of the protection of the poor children. The exercise allows to teach democratic values to …

The innovations brought by Equity Bank paid off. The Kenyan bank is the first on the African continent according to the world ranking published by the Financial Times magazine. The South African Capitec Bank Holdings and the Kenya Commercial Bank, the other Kenyan bank completed the list of the top …

The Ivory Coast government incites its researchers to innovation. The Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Gnamien Konan proceeded on Friday, 25th July to the launching of the edition 2014 of the scientific research Prize. The ceremony was placed under the theme: « the new dynamics of researchers’ merit« . This …

Every two years and since the year 2000, Togo has been paying tribute to its daughters who marked the social life of the country. For the 8th edition of the HOUINYIGAN biennial prize that will be held on the coming 2nd August in Lomé, Afri-Muse, the organizing association of the …

The young Malian film-maker, Bakary Diallo, the hope of the African cinema was involved in the air crash of Air Algérie occurred on 24th July 2014. The director of the short film « Tomo » took part in AfricaDoc in Bobo Dioulasso where he was trained in the documentary writing together with …

The Battle Afro and Master & Platinum association has just launched the 6th  edition that will take place under the theme « AFRICA » planned for the coming 26th October at the « Cigale de Paris ». This unique Afro Battle will so allow rediscovering this continent and its history from another angle. More …

For the second consecutive time, Togo draws attention by appearing among the 35 prize-winners of the Equateur Prize 2014. This thanks to the association of the nursery gardeners and the planters of the West Tône called « Songou-Man » (which means the shadow is good in the local dialect) based in the …

Since 7th June 2014, Jennifer Yéo has become the most beautiful woman of Ivory Coast. The beauty of the native of the Haut-Sassandra region has a particularity: natural. Jennifer Yéo, contrary to the young ladies of her generation, is not fan of make-ups. In an interview granted to the colleagues …

Adama Sallé died on Monday, 21st July 2014 at the Yalgado Ouédraogo teaching hospital of Ouagadougou, further to disease. The young film-maker of Burkina Faso of 33 years old was prize-winner of several awards on the continent. According to his producer, he suffered from a hemorrhagic dengue and a renal …

Jim Ovia, the Nigerian businessman known by all, belongs to the list the 20 most fortunate of Africa according to the American magazine, Forbes. The co-founder of Zenith Bank has just taken the chair of the banking institution further to the dismissal of Steve Omojafor. Founded in 1990, Zenith Bank …

The Ecobank group obtained in Kenya a licence of investment bank delivered by the Capital Market Authority (CMA). The present authorization will facilitate the diversification of the activities of the bank and will reposition it on a market that it has difficulty to conquer. In Kenya, Ecobank is not listed …

Senegal appears among the 12 countries with high and intermediary incomes outstripping the other countries of their group of income. Last Friday in Geneva (Switzerland), during the ranking of the Global Innovation Index 2014 (GII), the country occupied the African 9th position and the world 98th with a score of …

The Nobel Prize in Literature (1986), Wole Soyinka will introduce the anthology that will draft the 39 authors of less than 40 years old selected for the final phase of the Africa 39 project. The initiative results from the collaboration between the Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts Ltd …

Senegal is mourning the death of one of the major figures of « L’école de Dakar« . The painter Souleymane Keita died on 19th July at the Clinic Casahous further to a short disease. Contemporary visual artist, Souleymane Keita was born on 17th April 1947 in Gorée. His works were strongly inspired …

The West Africa media groups will launch in September 2014 the satellite platform of the sub-region. A bouquet of 42 channels will be free of charge accessible to households of this part of Africa. The CEO of Africable, the Malian Ismaïla Sidibé, the boss of Media Plus International, the Togolese …

The supports for the candidacy of the Mauritian, Jean Claude de L’ Estrac, at the post of General Secretary of the International Organization of the Francophonie are increasing. About thirty important personalities coming from various horizons are united in a collective behind the Mauritian for « an open, happy and uninhibited …

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 …

The Hollywood star of Kenyan origin, Lupita Nyong’o is riding high. Having hit the headlines of the famous magazine, Vogue, she is on the front page of ELLE magazine. Within one year, the most beautiful woman to the world according to People magazine got a global fame. The last publication …