Six partners experts in innovative business support were mandated to operate the Seed Fund by Digital Africa. Successful start-ups have emerged after the first year.      Within Digital Africa initiative, the French Development Agency (AFD) launched the Seed Fund by Digital Africa. Since 2019, its implementation relies on six partners running funding...

Le 7 avril marque le début du génocide contre les Tutsi au Rwanda, perpétré par le gouvernement extrémiste Hutu en 1994. Dans les 100 jours qui ont suivi, plus d’un million de membres de la minorité Tutsi ont été systématiquement assassinés. Depuis 2003, cette journée, consacrée Journée internationale de réflexion sur...

Rwanda Finance Limited (RFL) on March 31 unveiled the new brand for the Kigali International Financial Centre (KIFC).  Objective: To position Kigali as one of the main financial platforms of the continent.   By Dounia Ben Mohamed, Kigali     The KIFC is poised to become one of the leading...

The jury's coup de coeur at the last edition of the JFD, which took place on March 8, 2010. Rose Goyéli Tuo, a 15-year-old Ivorian, has developed X-Market, an application for monitoring urbanization, allowing management of the often anarchic implantation of roadside stores. It thus reduces accidents, neighborhood quarrels, and altercations between...

After a difficult year in 2020, marked by a decline in growth and a recession due to the impact of COVID-19, growth in Africa should globally rebound moderately to 2.7% in 2021, said the World Bank. Five countries: Djibouti, Kenya, Tunisia, Rwanda and Botswana will stand out, according to its...

According to the Africalead barometer, conducted by CIAN, 55% of African opinion leaders are optimistic about the future of the continent. The report also confirms the reshuffling of cards of influence in in Africa.     Talel de Sinta, Tunis   The CIAN / IMMAR barometer has just delivered its...

The first round of legislative and presidential elections held on December 27, 2020 is behind the new crisis in the Central African Republic. As soon as the election was prepared, the electoral process was off to a bad start...    By Thierry Vircoulon*   Armed groups had been disrupting the organization...

At just 18, Xaviera Nguefo, a Cameroonian programmer, has developed a waste treatment robot capable of picking up debris as it passes by and transporting it to a defined area (garbage can, waste disposal center, recycling center, etc.) in record time. She is the first winner of the Margaret Junior...

Commonwealth CHOGM 2021 to be held in Kigali next June   Initially scheduled last summer and then postponed due to the COVID-19 impact, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2021, also known as CHOGM, will be held from June 21 next in Kigali. Brexit, COVID-19, Co-development... So many topics on...