Category: Profile

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced, on June 5, that RwandAir CEO Yvonne Manzi Makolo has assumed her duties as Chair of the IATA Board of Governors (BoG) for a one-year term, effective from the conclusion of the 79th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Istanbul, Türkiye on 5 June.  Yvonene Manzi Makolo is the […]

Hugues Kenfack, a native of Cameroon, has been re-elected President of Toulouse Capitole University on Thursday 1 June. He was elected for a 5-year term, renewable once. Hugues Kenfack, says the University of Toulouse, was elected by an absolute majority of the 33 members of the Board of Directors present or represented. He received 28 […]

Dr. Boghuma Titanji, from Cameroon, is the winner of the Health Care Innovator/Researcher Award as part of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2023 Health Care Heroes programme. The Health Care Heroes awards recognise doctors, nurses and innovators. Boghuma K. Titanji, MD, MSc, DTM&H, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases […]

As well as being appointed Managing Director, the Congolese banker will also be head of corporate and investment banking at Standard Bank DRC. She replaces Amedeo Anniciello, who retired in March 2023. Standard Bank is one of the largest investment banks in the DRC. It has injected more than $300 million into the Congolese economy […]

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum and Peter Piot has been honoured for their tireless commitment to health. The ceremony took place on Sunday 21 May, during the high-level opening session of the 76th World Health Assembly. The Global Health Leaders Award was established in 2019 by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He presented the two winners with […]

Following a comprehensive national search, explains a press remease, Morgan State University President David K. Wilson and Provost Hongtao Yu, have appointed a new dean of the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P).  Distinguished global professor Abimbola O. Asojo, Ph.D., will take lead of the rising architectural school, effective August 2, 2023. She is only […]