Who is Florence Loan-Messan, the first woman to be elected President of the Côte d’Ivoire Bar?

The lawyer was elected at the elective general meeting of the Côte d’Ivoire Bar Association, held on Saturday July 29, 2023. She will take office in October 2024 for a 3-year term, becoming the first woman to hold this position within this professional order created in 1959. The Côte d’Ivoire Bar Association brings together lawyers […]

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UN: Gerardine Mukeshimana appointed Vice-President of IFAD

On Tuesday August 01, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Spanish economist Alvaro Lario, announced, on July 31, the appointment of Rwandan Gerardine Mukeshimana as Vice-President of IFAD. She will take office on August 28 The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized agency […]

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Interview. Alain Okan Mboma: “My ambition is to show that Congolese productions can reach the whole world”

Entrepreneur and founder of the Kinshasa-based production company “Inrise Production”, Alain Okan Mboma is the author of the cartoon “Noah de Coco”, conceived entirely in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and soon to be broadcast on TV5Monde, Gully Africa and Trace TV. The aim is to use a cartoon character to introduce children around the […]

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IFC Appoints Josiane Kwenda as Country Manager for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Guinea, and Togo

On Friday 21 July, the International Finance Corporation announced the appointment of Josiane Kwenda as Regional Representative for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Guinea and Togo. IFC’s focus in in Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Guinea, and Togo includes supporting agribusiness value chains, helping to bridge infrastructure and connectivity gaps, promoting digital inclusion, supporting affordable housing, strengthening the healthcare […]

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Angola: Vera Cristina dos Anjos Tangue Escórcio appointed Chairwoman of the IGAPE

The new Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the National Institute for the Management of State Assets and Holdings replaces Patrício Bicudo Vilar, who has headed IGAPE since 2019, according to a document from the Angolan Ministry of Finance, signed by the Minister of Finance, Vera Daves de Sousa. The Institute for the Management […]

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Côte d’Ivoire: Who is Fatoumata M’Balou Sanogo, the new Managing Director of Petroci?

Appointed Managing Director of Société nationale d’opérations pétrolières de Côte d’Ivoire (PETROCI) on Tuesday July 18, Fatoumata M’Balou Sanogo replaces former Managing Director Vamissa Bamba, who took up his post on August 6, 2021. Founded in 1975, PETROCI Holding’s main objective is to “Build an integrated and diversified petroleum economy, by optimizing efforts to find […]

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Sierra Leone: Salima Monorma Bah, 32, appointed Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation

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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Interview. Debora Kayembe: “The tense climate I found at the University of Edinburgh has now dissipated”.

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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Meet Nikki Ogunnaike, the new editor-in-chief of Marie-Claire Magazine

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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South African “Starchitect” Sumayya Vally pays tribute to Congolese Paul Panda Farnana

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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Dr. Esther Babady, the Congolese-born president of the Pan-American Society of Clinical Virology

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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Who is Iman Abuzeid, Sudanese-born and one of the richest Self-Made Women in the USA?

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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