With one week to go until Africa Tech Summit in Kigali, (www.africatechsummit.com/kigali) over 100 expert speakers from across the continent have been announced for the pan-African event at the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda on February 5thand 6th2020. The Summit will connect African corporates, start-ups, investors and international delegations sharing...

Over fifty years old, Ludovic Ouattara is now a serial entrepreneur. After years of doing business in Belgium, he returned to his country in 2012 where he launched several companies, taking up concepts developed in Europe, and adapting them to the local landscape. Among them, Djoba, a solution for transfer,...

Kigali will welcome, from March 26- 28th, 2020, the first edition of “Africa in colors festival” attracting more than 5,000 people from all across the globe, Experts, investors, and pioneers in the Creative industry, with one aim, position Africa on the global map in the creative industry, showcase and great business opportunities to African talents in...

Crystal Ball Africa 2020. Challenges and opportunities of Zleca exposed to the private sector The 2020 edition of Crystal Ball Africa (CBA) was held in Accra on January 16th. This annual Pan-African business conference brings together business leaders, investors, and political decision-makers to discuss political trends and changes that will...

Cape Verde is a good student of the continent when we examine its governance, socio-economic progress, and its infrastructure. Cape Verde recently elevated to the rank of middle-income country which has also embarked on an ambitious policy to enhance its cultural heritage and promotion of the creative industries. This should...

Kigali has hosted Creative Africa Exchange (CAX) from January 16 to 18. A new platform intended to promote exchanges within the African creative and cultural industry. With one of the most concrete objectives for this edition: to raise funds worth $ 2 billion. That is bet partially raised.   By...

On January 14th, Tunisia celebrated the eighth anniversary of the revolution. A half-hearted anniversary as the expectations of the promises of the revolution are still great while the country knows a difficult socio-economic situation, against a backdrop of political crisis. However, the country that has paved the way for the...

The United Kingdom is set to hold a major investment conference in London later on this month, titled – Sub-Saharan Africa Investment Conference. The event will be hosted by the newly elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Department for International Development (DfiD), one of the major partners of development within...

As concerns of a possible global recession gathers strength, most African economies may be unaffected owing to the strength of economic diversity in some regions. This was stated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), in its latest report, titled "Economic Update: Africa Q4 2019."  ...

Ces vingt dernières années, des progrès significatifs ont été réalisés dans de nombreux pays parmi les plus pauvres du monde révèle une étude de l'Association Internationale de Développement de la Banque Mondiale (IDA). Pour la 19ème reconstitution des ressources de l'IDA, une alliance mondiale de partenaires du développement a mobilisé un...