L'actualité inédite des acteurs d'une Afrique en pleine mutation
Argentina Matavel Piccin, a Mozambican national, was appointed to this position by the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Natalia Kanem. The new regional director of UNFPA’s West and Central Africa regional office took office on September 3 in Dakar, Senegal, replacing Senegalese Mabingue Ngom, who was assigned to other duties. […]
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Her appointment was announced on Tuesday, September 7, by Madame Graҫa Machel, founder and chair of the Graҫa Machel Trust, former Minister of Culture and Education of Mozambique, former First Lady of Mozambique and former First Lady of South Africa. Melizsa Mugyenyi took office on Monday, September 6. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Graça […]
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Boris Bilé Coffi of Côte d’Ivoire has been appointed Managing Director of BGFIBank Europe, based in Paris. He succeeds Francesco De Musso of Congo-Brazzaville, who has been appointed Director General of BGFIBank in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). BGFIBank Group is an international financial group with 2,300 employees in 11 countries: Benin, Cameroon, Congo, […]
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Since August 2021, Noellie Noellie Tiendrebeogo is the new General Manager of Ecobank Burkina Faso, an institution she had left in July 2019, after spending 14 years there. She had been appointed CEO of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Burkina Faso, becoming the first female CEO of a bank in Burkina Faso and the only […]
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A native of Nigeria, Emerson’s new and first “Chief People Officer” was, since 2016, vice president and director of human resources of the American multinational Ingredion, which specializes in the production of food raw materials. Founded in 1890 and a Fortune 500 company, Emerson Electric Company, commonly referred to as Emerson , headquartered in St. […]
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Originally from the Timbuktu region of Mali, she will take up her position on September 1, 2021 and will replace Patrick Benon from Benin, who has been appointed CEO of Orange Cameroon. Néné Maïga has been a member of the Orange Botswana Board of Directors since December 2020. She began her career in France as […]
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Attorney, writer, speaker, Cameroonian Abam Mambo is Microsoft’s new legal regional director for workplace investigations for Asia. In her thirties, she already has a wealth of professional experience and has worked for several years in multinationals in the USA, Africa and Asia. She has also provided legal advice to senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, […]
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These powerful businesswomen have founded companies whose activities they have diversified over the years, making them benchmark companies in their fields. We put the spotlight on these influential and creative businesswomen who stand out on the African entrepreneurial scene Akiko Seyoum Ambaye, Founder and CEO of Construction Orchid Business Group PLC (Ethiopia) Akiko Seyoum […]
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To celebrate the international day of women’s rights, Africanshapers feels it has a duty to pay tribute to the “Immortals”, pioneering women in Africa, trail blazers who cleared the path for the current generation. Dead or still alive, little known to the general public, they paved the way for other women from their countries and […]
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Fassi Kafyeke is Senior Director, Strategic Technologies and Advanced Design, Aerospace Product Development Engineering at Bombardier Aerospace, a subsidiary of Canadian multinational Bombardier, the world’s third largest employer and seller in aircraft construction after Boeing and Airbus. For 36 years, thanks to his extraordinary technical know-how, Fassi Kafyeke has worked on the design of various […]
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Young, ambitious and determined, these lawyers are distinctive by having launched their own firms very early on, being pioneers in their fields or even combining their brilliant careers as lawyers with another fruitful professional occupation. These are their profiles. Tebello Kutoane (South Africa), 29, founder of a law firm entirely owned by women A […]
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They are CEOs, general managers or hold high responsibility positions with tech and web giants on the continent. They supervise the activities of these technological multinationals in a country, a region, or throughout the African continent. These are their profiles. Yacine Barro (Senegal), Managing Director of Microsoft for West and Central Africa, responsible for […]
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