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By the end of 2018, there were 185 million unique mobile subscribers in West Africa, an increase of nearly 10 million over the previous year. Future growth will largely be driven by young consumers owning a mobile phone for the first time; more than 40% of the sub-region’s population are...

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), parent company of the Ecobank Group based in Lome, is pleased to announce the release of $ 450 million as part of its first Eurobond, which was oversubscribed. This global issue is based on a 5-year unsecured note (144A / RegS) listed on the main market...

Announced by the spokesman of the government after the Council of Ministers, work to build socio-economic infrastructure in seven regions of Burkina Faso was approved. For an estimated budget of 21 billion CFA francs (about 36 million US dollars), its achievements are part of the support program for the development...

The manufacturing sector will hold the key to future growth in East Africa, the African Development Bank’s lead Economist for the Bank’s East Africa Regional Office has emphasised. Speaking during the launch ceremony of the East Africa Regional Economic Outlook report held 4 April 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr Marcellin Ndong-Ntah said the...

MyAfricanStartup.com published, on April 17, the second edition of its annual list of 100 innovative African start-ups in which to invest. The initiative aims to increase the visibility of high-potential start-ups with African and international investors, in a context of strong attractiveness of the Tech sector in Africa. According to...

A memorandum of understanding for the creation of the Lamalif Africa Group was signed on April 17 in Marrakech, between Lamalif Group, the Moroccan leader in urban planning for more than 20 years, and the French rap star Maitre Gims. A cooperation, which carries ambitious projects for the countries of...

Morocco was the first Maghreb investor in France in 2018, with 8 Investment projects and 145 jobs created, according to the agency Business France, in its 2018 report on international investments in France, cited by Hespress. A portfolio of 500 French companies are under the tutelage of a Maghreb investor,...

Morocco will host the sixth edition of the Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum in 2020, says the final declaration of the Forum held on April 17 in Moscow....

Kamel Feniche "was appointed" April 17 President of the Constitutional Council to replace Tayeb Belaiz. Aged 70, the incarnation of a "system" whose Algerian protest calls for an end, Tayeb Belaiz, resigned....

For the third consecutive season, Burkina Faso's cotton production fell by 30%, settling for the past season at 436,000 tons. The kg of cotton will return to 265 FCFA for the 2019/2020 campaign....