L'actualité inédite des acteurs d'une Afrique en pleine mutation
University of Vermont Provost and Senior Vice President, Patricia Prelock, has announced, on January 28, the appointment of Jane Okech, Ph.D., as vice provost for faculty affairs, effective July 1, 2022. Kane Okech will succeed Jim Vigoreaux, who, after seven years of distinguished service, announced his intent to leave the vice provost for faculty affairs […]
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Nexans Morocco, a subsidiary of the multinational Nexans, announced on January 31 the appointment of Selma Alami as General Manager, succeeding Karim Bennis who is retiring after 16 years at the head of the cable industry leader. A subsidiary of the Nexans Group since 1947, Nexans Morocco has established itself on the Moroccan market as […]
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Thanusha Govender’s appointment is effective from 1 February and she replaces Hymie Marnewick. Launched in 2004, XLink is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodacom and describes itself as a leading provider of secure communications and payment solutions, facilitating more than one billion transactions per year, while maintaining an average uptime of more than 98%. In […]
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Launched in 2013 by JFD (Digital Women’s Day), the “Margaret’s Award”, it is explained, rewards each year women entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs in Europe and Africa, whose projects and innovations respond to the major challenges of our society. The prize is named after Margaret Hamilton, director of the software engineering division that developed the embedded software […]
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Elected on Tuesday 01 February in Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania, she received 376 votes from the MPs who attended the election. She becomes the second woman in Tanzania to hold this position after Anne Makinda, who held it from 2010 to 2015. Tulia Ackson Mwansasu, who defeated eight of her fellow candidates, was deputy […]
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Prior to her appointment, she was, since September 2018, permanent secretary of Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure, where she started in 2015 as technical advisor to the minister of infrastructure. As permanent secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Patricia Uwase oversaw the preparation and execution of the budget for Rwanda’s infrastructure sector – about a third […]
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Forbes magazine recently published its list of the richest men in Africa in 2022. For the 11th consecutive year, Nigeria’s Alike Dangote is the richest person on the continent, with an estimated fortune of $13.9 billion. Forbes list, says the magazine, tracks the wealth of African billionaires who reside in Africa or have their primary […]
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The Cameroonian writer won the prize for her first novel “The Aquatics”, described as “the inner portrait of a woman who reveals herself to herself and a profound reflection on the power games in contemporary African society”. The winner of this first edition of the Pan-African Prize for Literature was announced on Monday, January 24 […]
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Headquartered in South Africa, KFC Africa, regional operating unit of US-based fast-food chain KFC, has appointed Nolo Thobejane as head of rest of sub-Saharan Africa (RoSSA), which is made up of 22 growth markets. This appointment became effective on 1 January 2022. KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a global chicken restaurant brand […]
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on January 26, the appointment of a board of trustees, with Strive Masiyiwa, Baroness Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Thomas J. Tierney, and Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman joining co-chairs Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates as members. The board members will work alongside Gates and French Gates, bringing independent […]
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The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) of the Global Reporting Initiative has selected 20 members to participate in the global working group that will develop the content of a sector standard for the mining sector that addresses the impacts of organizations in this sector. The Global Reporting Initiative is an independent international standard-setting body for […]
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The position of Senior Vice President of Technology and Society at Google is a newly-created position. American citizen and native of Zimbabwe, James Manyika will report directly to the CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai. James Manyika’s role works on “shaping and sharing” the company’s view on the way tech affects society, the economy and the […]
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