L'actualité inédite des acteurs d'une Afrique en pleine mutation
The Brooklyn Museum announced, on April 2, two new appointments to the Curatorial Affairs team. Ernestine White-Mifetu has been appointed Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, and Abigail L. Dansiger has been appointed Director of Libraries and Archives. Both started at the Museum on March 1, 2022. In her role as Sills Foundation Curator of […]
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Lawyers or magistrates, these brilliant Congolese jurists, evolving in the DRC or abroad, known or less known, carry out exceptional work to improve social justice in their daily environment. Below is a non-exhaustive list of 75 women law specialists. The ranking has been done randomly and the position on this list is not synonymous of […]
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Combining both finance and technology, FinTech is a mix of two traditionally male-dominated fields. Nevertheless, in recent years in Africa, Fintech has opened up career opportunities for women. The emergence of female leadership in fintech is now a reality on the African continent, although there is still progress to be made. Below is a list […]
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On the occasion of the International Women’s Rights Day, celebrated on 8 March, the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, said that “women play a central role in the future of African football and in the socio-economic development and growth of the African continent”. In recent years, women’s leadership in African […]
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Gilbert Houngbo was elected director-general of the International Labor Organization (ILO) on March 25 in Geneva by the ILO’s Governing Body, which is made up of representatives of governments, workers and employers. He will take office on October 1 for a five-year term and will be the 11th director general of the ILO and the […]
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A Malian national, he will take up his post on 1 April and will also oversee other Central African countries such as Gabon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome and Principe. Aboubacar Coulibaly holds a doctorate in medicine from Cheik Anta Diop University in Senegal […]
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The Board of Management of Ethiopian Airlines Group has announced the appointment of Mr. Mesfin Tasew Bekele, as Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines Group, effective March 23, 2022. Mr Mesfin has been a successor to the former CEO of the Airline group, Tewolde GebreMariam whose early retirement request due to health issues has been […]
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Girma Wake, former CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, replaces Tewolde GebreMariam who requested the Board of Management of Ethiopian Airlines Group, for early retirement in order for him to focus his full attention to his medical treatment in the USA. In a press release, Ethipian Airlines said that Tewolde GebreMariam has been under medical treatment in […]
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Toyin Tofade is the first Black woman to serve as president in the college’s 141-year history. She begins her term on July 1, 2022. Toyin Tofade, MS, PharmD, BCPS, CPCC, FFIP, has been selected as the 10th president of the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (ACPHS), following a comprehensive national search. Founded in […]
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Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, originally from Burkina Faso, was awarded the Pritzker Prize on Tuesday 15 March, becoming the first African to receive the architectural profession’s highest honour. Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, chairman of […]
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Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Odimba reorganized the Gabonese government on March 8, 2020. Some ministers have kept their posts, others have been swapped or have left the government. The government now has 38 members, including 13 women, some of whom hold key ministries such as justice, defense, the economy and the ministry responsible for foreign […]
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Originally from Guinea, Adamadia Diallo is a train driver at the Belgian National Railway Company (SNCB), since 2017. She shares her passion for her job on her various social networks under the account “@mama.is_a.traindriver”. Living in Belgium for about 20 years, and mother of 2 children (a 7 and a half year old boy, and […]
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