L'actualité inédite des acteurs d'une Afrique en pleine mutation
A lawyer at the High Court of Sierra Leone, she has ben appointed to this position on July 16 by the country’s president, Julius Maada Bio, becoming the first person to head this newly-created ministry and also the youngest member of the government. “Humbled and honored to answer the national call to service of H.E. […]
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Officially installed on 21 June as the 54th Rector of the University of Edinburgh, after being elected to the post in February 2021, Debora Kayembe talks in this interview about the work she has accomplished during her two years in office, and in particular the central role she has played in establishing a climate of […]
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The Nigerian-born Nikki Ogunnaike will take up her new role on August 8, after serving as Senior Digital Director at the renowned American women’s fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar since November 2020. As Senior Digital Director of “Harper’s Bazaar”. Nikki Ogunnaike oversaw a team of editors covering style culture across website, video and social media. In […]
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Sumayya Vally, who was chosen in a competition to build a new bridge in the Belgian town of Vilvorde, discovered the story of Congolese architect Paul Panda Farnana and chose to pay tribute to him. Paul Panda Farnana is considered to be the first Congolese to have graduated from higher education in Belgium in 1907, […]
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Appointed President of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology in July 2022 for a two-year term, Dr Esther Babady is a clinical microbiologist specialising in the molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases. Since July 2022, Dr. Esther Babady has been President of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, an organisation that promotes the scientific […]
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Ranked in the Forbes 2023 list of America’s richest self-made women, 38-year-old Iman Abuzeid is the CEO and co-founder of Incredible Health, a company she set up in 2017 to help solve the nursing shortage plaguing American hospitals. Her fortune is estimated at 350 million usd. Incredible Health, explains Forbes, works like an enhanced version […]
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced, on June 5, that RwandAir CEO Yvonne Manzi Makolo has assumed her duties as Chair of the IATA Board of Governors (BoG) for a one-year term, effective from the conclusion of the 79th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Istanbul, Türkiye on 5 June. Yvonene Manzi Makolo is the […]
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Hugues Kenfack, a native of Cameroon, has been re-elected President of Toulouse Capitole University on Thursday 1 June. He was elected for a 5-year term, renewable once. Hugues Kenfack, says the University of Toulouse, was elected by an absolute majority of the 33 members of the Board of Directors present or represented. He received 28 […]
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Dr. Boghuma Titanji, from Cameroon, is the winner of the Health Care Innovator/Researcher Award as part of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2023 Health Care Heroes programme. The Health Care Heroes awards recognise doctors, nurses and innovators. Boghuma K. Titanji, MD, MSc, DTM&H, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases […]
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As well as being appointed Managing Director, the Congolese banker will also be head of corporate and investment banking at Standard Bank DRC. She replaces Amedeo Anniciello, who retired in March 2023. Standard Bank is one of the largest investment banks in the DRC. It has injected more than $300 million into the Congolese economy […]
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Sarah Mensah, currently Nike’s Vice President and General Manager for North America, will become President of Jordan Brand, the first woman to hold this position. Established in 1997 as a subsidiary of the Nike brand, Jordan Brand, named after former Chicago Bulls NBA player Michael Jordan, specializes in the production of sports footwear, apparel and […]
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Written in Italian and entitled “Giù le mani dall’Africa!”, the book, prefaced by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is a collection of speeches and homilies given by Pope Francis during his recent apostolic trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. The Vatican Publishing Bookshop announced on Monday, May 22, the publication […]
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