L'actualité inédite des acteurs d'une Afrique en pleine mutation
Fadimatou Noutchemo, a Cameroonian national, has been appointed General Manager in Cameroon of Afrijet, a Gabonese airline operating scheduled flights to a number of airports throughout Cameroon, Gabon, São Tomé, and the Republic of Congo. Founded in 2005 in Libreville, Afrijet became the first airline in the CEMAC zone in 2019. Afrijet employs 250 people […]
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Appointed General Manager of Vlisco DRC in March 2020, at the dawn of the pandemic, Edwine Endundo has reoriented her professional career, moving from being a lawyer to being the regional manager of an international textile brand. All of the objectives she set for herself when she took up the position were achieved. The company […]
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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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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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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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Brice Oblé, an Ivorian national and a product of the Ivorian education system, took office on February 15. A subsidiary of the Attijariwafa bank group since 2009, the Société Ivoirienne de Banque covers the Ivorian territory with 66 branches and 2 business centers spread over 21 cities and has a staff of nearly 900 employees […]
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In addition to his duties in Gabon, Loïse Tamalgo, 45, has been appointed General Delegate of Eramet in Africa as of February 1. Based in Libreville, he will report to Kleber Silva, deputy CEO in charge of the mining and metals division, and Virginie de Chassey, director of sustainable development and corporate commitment. Eramet is […]
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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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Aliko Dangote is completing “Dangote Oil refinery”, his $19.5 billion mega-refinery project, which is expected to begin production by the end of the third trimester of 2022. Since 2020, its commissioning has often been postponed due to delays in the completion of the work with the pandemic. Aliko Dangote announced the launch of the refinery’s […]
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The WorldFish Board of Directors announced on 21 January that it has appointed Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed, from Eritrea, as Interim Director General of WorldFish from January 2022. Based in Bayan Lepas, Malaysia, WorldFish describes itself as an international non-profit research and innovation organisation that reduces hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Africa, Asia and the […]
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Born in the DRC, raised in the US and currently living in Germany, Freda Katunda won the Social Hero award from Global Digital Women GmbH (Germany) in December 2021 for her startup LEAP. In partnership with UNICEF, the London School of Economics, international universities and African organizations, among others, LEAP offers affordable and accessible training […]
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