L'actualité inédite des acteurs d'une Afrique en pleine mutation
The Board of Directors of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) announced on Tuesday, October 18, the appointment of Abena Amoah as the new Managing Director of the GSE, effective November 24, 2022. Prior to this appointment, she was Deputy Managing Director of the Exchange. Launched in 1990, the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) is the only […]
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The members of the new team, whose names were officially announced on 10 October, were appointed at the end of September by Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. They were sworn in on 6 October at the Angolan Ministry of Finance headquarters in a ceremony presided over by Angolan Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa. […]
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The Congolese lawyer was elected, on Wednesday 12 October at 4am, president of the Bar Association of Central Kongo, a province located in the west of the DRC. Elected in the first round, she obtained 655 votes out of 1111 voters, against her opponents Me Rigobert Suami (362 votes) and Me Léon Matho (86 votes). […]
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced on October 10 the appointment of Hassatou Diop N’Sele as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the African Development Bank, effective October 16, 2022. The Senegalese had been acting in this position since November 2021 and had previously served as interim in the same position from […]
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Politician, social justice and equity activist, philanthropist and daughter of the late Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah is one of two personalities named an honorary member of this prestigious African-American women’s service organization, along with American actress, singer and philanthropist, Dawnn Lewis. They were inducted earlier in 2022, […]
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With over 14 years of experience in the banking sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says a statement from FBNBank DRC SA (a subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria), Gisèle Lutundula has a varied background that enabled her to pass the rigorous appointment process of the FirstBank Group, positioning her as the best internal […]
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The official launch of Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia took place on Thursday 6 October in Addis Ababa, the capital of this country of 118 million inhabitants, in the presence of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Kenyan President William Ruto. The launch of Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia puts an end to the monopoly of the state-owned company […]
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The former General Manager of Congo Airways, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is the first person appointed to this position and will represent the interests in Africa of Eurodistribution, an international company based in Madrid, Spain, which provides distribution services in more than 30 markets to airlines, cruise ships, trains and bus companies […]
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Director of the Rebranding Africa Forum (RAF), whose 8th edition will be held in Brussels from October 20 to 21, Cameroonian Paule-Renée Etogo explains, in this interview, the main lines of the next edition and recalls the importance of the RAF, an event that would like to continue to assert its leadership on the major […]
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Filmmaker Mahen Bonetti of Sierra Leone, Rockefeller Foundation Director Betty Wambui Kibaara of Kenya, and IBM Vice President Solomon Assefa of Ethiopia were honored at the 38th annual Africa-America Institute Awards Gala, which recognizes the vast contributions of Africa and its diaspora around the world. The awards ceremony took place on Thursday, September 22 in […]
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Dr Vera Songwe is appointed Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the Liquidity & Sustainability Facility (LSF) and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former president of Liberia, has also accepted to lead the Board in an honorary capacity, said a press release issued on Thursday, September 29. The Board of Directors includes Dr. Benedict Okey […]
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The Nigerian writer is one of seven recipients of this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard University’s highest honor in the field of African and African-American studies. This prestigious award will be presented to them on Thursday, October 6 at the Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. This year’s recipients, it is […]
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