SENEGAL :
Marine Le Pen in Moscow to meet with Russian deputies: "The president of the National Front and candidate for the French presidential, Marine Le Pen, arrived in Moscow on Friday where he must meet with Russian deputies. After his visit to Chad, Marine Le Pen is in Moscow on Friday the 24th of March. The president of the National Front arrived in the Duma, where she was to meet with Russian deputies. Leonid Sloutski, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, said that he personally invited Marine Le Pen to meet with Russian representatives. In favor of a rapprochement with the Kremlin, the presidential candidate proposes to recognize, if it accedes to the Elysee Palace, the annexation of the Crimea by Russia and to lift the economic sanctions imposed by the European Union. As a sign of a closeness between the FN and supporters of Vladimir Putin, the far-right party invited in 2014 a deputy of the presidential party and vice-president of the Duma, Andrei Issayev, at a congress organized in Lyon. In the same year, the FN obtained a loan of 9 million euros from a Russian bank known to be close to power, which Marine Le Pen had justified by the refusal of French establishments to give him any advance. In order to safeguard its international credibility, the candidate has traveled to the United States, Lebanon since the beginning of the year, where she met with President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and in Chad, where she 'Is maintained on Tuesday with President Idriss Déby. ... "
MALI:
INNOVATION OF BANKING TECHNOLOGY: BNDA Mobile operational for customers: This new product allows customers to make transactions such as balance, survey, transfer without moving. The launch took place last Monday at the headquarters of the banking institution during a press conference, chaired by the CEO, Mr. Moussa Alassane Diallo. The National Bank of Agricultural Development is a leading banking institution in Mali, both through its shareholding and its mission. It has in the continuity of actions already committed to promote the access of its customers to its banking services, decided to implement its BNDA Mobile solution. The solution with its different products is based on the development of mobile telephony throughout the country and will allow customers to access the services of the NBAD anywhere and this 24/4 and 7/7. This new innovation of the NBAD allows the customer to consult his balance, consult his statement, make transfers either to another account or to another customer ... "
IVORY COAST:
After the IMF: the new life of Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "Dominique Strauss-Kahn left the International Monetary Fund in the worst of ways, carried away by the Nafissatou Diallo affair. Since then, man has built a new life. Lionel Jospin's former Minister of Economics regularly visits Africa. The arrival of the former IMF boss on the mainland, far from resembling holidays, are business opportunities. Indeed, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the continent to negotiate contracts with the leaders. He acts on behalf of companies owned by friends. DSK went to Dakar in early February where it tried to convince the Senegalese authorities in relation to the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE) launched since 2014. He also tried to win contracts in Burkina Faso. However, La Lettre du Continent, in its 749 publication, reveals that DSK was unable to obtain contracts in these two countries. He would act for his friend Vladimir Mollof, head of the Arjil advisory bank. At the head of LSK (Leyne Strauss-Kahn and Parteners), a company specializing in financial product management, the former IMF director has prospected in Africa. He introduced companies to African heads of state. This is the case for SICPA, the world leader in the traceability of cigarettes, but also supplier of the ink used to manufacture eurozone banknotes. Dominique Strauss-Kahn travels the continent and the salons of African presidents, in his suitcase of files belonging to important businessmen .... "
Abidjan: "The 5th edition of the Africa CEO Forum opened in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday under the theme of reinventing the African business model. In his opening remarks, Amir Ben Yahmed, President and founder of the Forum, explained the urgent need to rethink the African business model as the continent's average growth continues to fall. "More worryingly, the two main economies of the continent, Nigeria and South Africa, are notoriously affected," he said. In a speech read on his behalf, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Akinwumi Adesina, challenged governments to fully accept the potential and provide incentives to the private sector to stimulate growth Economic growth and lift millions of people out of poverty. For him, "economies must behave like a bird with two wings: the public and private sectors must act synchronously. "More than 1,100 participants from 43 countries, including 40 ministers and two heads of state attended the CEO Forum this year. The Forum is organized by the Jeune Afrique Group, in partnership with the AfDB, and Rainbow Unlimited. .... "
CAMEROON:
Central Africa : "Real economic growth in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) is expected to be a 1.6% in 2017, compared with a 0.2% a year earlier, according to the Monetary Policy Committee (CPM) Bank of States of the subregion (BEAC). At the end of its first session of the year, held Wednesday in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, this body put this recovery on the account of the rise in oil prices as well as the implementation of the reforms included in the reform program Economic and financial. The MPC also points to an improvement in the management of public finances, with a reduction in the budget deficit based on commitments, excluding grants to a 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP), a net current account deficit, public transfers Including an 8.2% of GDP and a rise in the external coverage rate of the currency to a 64.8%. The Committee expects inflation to be a 2.6% below the Community threshold (a 3%), against a 1.1% in 2016 and a 2.5% in 2015. It confirms the prospects for a weakening of economic activity in 2017, due to the persisting effects of the fall in world crude oil prices combined with the economic costs of maintaining peace and security in the subregion. After deciding to increase the interest rate of the tenders by 50 basis points to a 2.95%, the CPM has on the contrary maintained the interest rates on the investments of the banks, the coefficients Reserves and the enumeration rate of such reserves. For the governor of the BEAC, Abbas Mahamat Tolli, these measures should boost economic activity in the subregion ... "
Crédit : IMPERIUM MEDIA
