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Dangote is the Richest in Africa but Sawiris has more cash

👤Mekki Center 🕔14.Oct 2020

 Undoubtedly, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote is Africa’s richest man. The aggregate value of his assets reaches more than $ 14 billion, according to international agencies but the Ecofin agency has published an economic analysis confirming that in the details of Dangote’s fortune show that he has less cash than one of his competitors in Africa, the […]

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IZIWAY, the Cameroonian Amazon proves that Africa has entered the era of e-commerce

👤Mekki Center 🕔13.Oct 2020

IZIWAY, the Cameroonian Amazon proves Africa has entered the era of e-commerce Although Cameroon’s position in the latest ranking of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Cameroonian company (IZIWAY) has proven that this announcement is wrong. Camer.be web-site published an article “E-commerce – Cameroonian IZIWAY, on the footsteps of Amazon”, on […]

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«Consume Local» Togo’s experience has become regional in 8 West African countries.

👤Mekki Center 🕔13.Oct 2020

UEMOA Commission President Abdallah Boureima launched the first edition 2020 of “October, the Month of Local Consumption” withing member states of the organization in Ouagadougou, UEMOA published. According to Togo News, this initiative, in 8 member countries of UEMOA, is directly inspired by the Togolese experience. “This community experience is inspired by the Togolese example. […]

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Steel in Angola, a new major achievement

👤Mekki Center 🕔12.Oct 2020

Fabrimetal company inaugurated on 12 October 2020 a new unit aimed at increasing the installed capacity by 90,000 tons/year. The company launched an additional investment that increases foreign currency inflows to Angola. “It also intends to export up to 25% of its production to neighboring countries in the South Africa region and to DRC, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal”  ANGOP reported. […]

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Togo’s Economic Forum «Salon Ferin 2020» in virtual mode this year

👤Mekki Center 🕔11.Oct 2020

 The theme of the most famous forum in Togo this year is: “people in the heart of economic growth and sustainable development”. The date of the second edition of Salon Ferin is October 22 to 23, 2020 in virtual mode due to the context of Covid19. The Fair brings together investors, state institutions, financial organizations, […]

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Transgabonaise, Model of Success in Central Africa

👤Mekki Center 🕔10.Oct 2020

  The 780 km road connects Gabon and three countries in the central Africa region. Moreover, “the Transgabonaise” is an example of public-private partnership. The Prime Minister of Gabon, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, officially launched in September 2020  the first phase of construction works of Transgabonaise. “This launch is symbolic, but it is a long-term […]

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Ivory Coast ascended the throne of investment in Africa.

👤Mekki Center 🕔7.Oct 2020

  Ecofin Agency published a report confirmed that Ivorian Economy classified as the most attractive in Africa according to the private sector. The article under the title “Africa’s most attractive countries for investments according to the private sector?” Africa CEO Forum and Deloitte released the second edition of the Africa CEOs Survey, a ranking of […]

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Africa Celebrates its First “Integration Day”

👤Mekki Center 🕔5.Oct 2020

By Rashid Abdelrahmam A year ago, in Niamey, Niger, AU Summit launched AfCFTA and designated the 7th of July as “Africa Integration Day”. From July 2019 AfCFTA became the top trend of debate and discussions in African business and political arenas till the outbreak of covid19. The pandemic changed all topics and issues all around […]

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American study: Possible perpetrators for bio-attacks could be eco-terrorists.

👤Mekki Center 🕔10.Apr 2020

 Two authors from the USA suggested if chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) attacks happen, the eco-radicalism draws more capable adherents. Philipp Bleek from Middlebury Institute for International Studies, Monterey, California and Zachary Kallenborn from Cadmus Group, Washington DC published in May 2018 the article  “Avatars of the Earth: Radical Environmentalism and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and […]

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Thanks AfDB: $1.5 million emergency grant approved to curb desert locusts ravaging East and Horn of Africa

👤Mekki Center 🕔2.Apr 2020

The proposed assistance will be channeled to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, April 2, 2020 The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) on Wednesday approved a $1.5 million emergency relief grant to assist nine countries in the East and Horn of Africa on the control of swarms of […]

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