SENEGAL:
Elections in Senegal: the possible union of the opposition does not worry the majority: "In Senegal, the idea is making its way in favor of a common list of the opposition for the legislative elections scheduled for the 30th of July. The negotiations have begun. On Friday night, former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade called on the opposition to unite in a grand coalition that would bring together the PDS, Idrissa Seck's Rewmi, Bock Guiss Guiss, the Great Party and why not also the party's rebels Socialist, gathered around Khalifa Sall, the mayor of Dakar currently in prison. Abdoulaye Wade says he is investing in it personally. But this does not seem to thrill Moustapha Diakhaté, the president of the presidential majority group Benno Bokk Yakaar in the National Assembly. I believe that a former President of the Republic must have something else to do but still embark on political politics ... "
CAMEROON:
8.5 billion CFA from the OPEC Fund for the Electricity Sector in Cameroon: "The Fund of the Organization of Petroleum Producers for Development in Africa (OFID) has just approved a financing of 8.45 billion CFA for electrification in Cameroon" Learned Friday at the end of the first session of the Steering Committee of phase II rural electrification project. This funding concerns 21 localities in four of the country's 10 regions, namely Adamaoua, Littoral, North, Littoral and South, announced Ousmane Nou the chairman of the rural electrification project steering committee Phase II. A program covering 102 localities across the country for a total cost of 18.5 billion CFA and financed by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) ) And OFID. IDB financing is 12.2 billion CFA , while BADEA's financing for the electrification of 50 localities in the three northern regions of Adamaoua, North and Far-North is of a total amount of 6.31 billion CFA while the contribution of the State of Cameroon is 1.352 billion CFA. Phase II of this project follows the first phase, launched six years ago, involving only 33 localities, enabling 3935 households to be connected to the electricity grid in the Central North and North-West ..... "
IVORY COAST:
Visit of the construction site of the free zone of the VITIB of Grand-Bassam: "Bruno Koné: "This is a major project that will contribute to the emergence of Ivory Coast." Bruno Nabagné Koné, the Minister of Communication, Digital Economy and Post, visited with Daniel Kablan Duncan, Vice-President of the Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Raymonde Goudou Coffie , On Friday, March 31, 2017, the site of 180 ha, under development, placed at the disposal of the Village of Information Technologies and Biotechnology (VITIB) in Grand Bassam. The Minister Bruno Nabagné Koné took the first stones and unveiled stelae of a factory for the manufacture of medicines against diabetes, malaria and heart problems, PHARMANOVA, at a cost of 3 billion of CFA, which will create 300 direct jobs, and the first building of 3000 m2 financed by Exim Bank of India, to 12 billion CFA (20 million dollars), which will allow the VITIB to host companies TIC. At the end of this visit, the Minister in charge of the Digital Economy was able to absorb the progress of the work of the free zone. It noted with satisfaction the enthusiasm of national and international companies for this area and welcomed the commitment of all the national authorities involved in the realization of this project. In addition, The Minister Bruno Koné said that this is a major project that will contribute to the emergence of Ivory Coast. The project, he added, will also create many jobs in the pharmaceutical and ICT sectors. The Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan stressed the futuristic nature of the development of the free zone, but also its highly social significance, especially through the installation of new enterprises. This development work, financed by the West African Development Bank (BOAD) for 13 billion CFA and the Bank for Investment and Development of ECOWAS (BIDC) for 5 billion CFA, will take End in December 2017 ... .. "
MALI:
WAEMU inter-country trade below a 18%: "Intra-UEMOA trade rose by a 2.8% to stand at 662.1 billion CFA (about 1 billion Euro), according to the report on monetary policy in Uemoa published in March by The BCEAO (Central Bank of the States of West Africa). However, the share of intra-regional trade in goods in total EU exports is only a 17.6%. Most countries in the region mainly export agricultural products (cocoa, coffee, cashew nuts, cotton) to the European Union. The weakness of trade between the eight countries is also explained by the logistic costs of pupils and the lack of efficient infrastructure. Of the 1 billion Euro in trade between member countries, Ivory Coast and Senegal remain the main supplier countries, with cumulatively more than a 54.9% of the total intra-Community supply. On the other hand, Mali and Burkina Faso are the main destinations of the flows exchanged within the UEMOA with a 48.3% of the total. The principal products exchanged are petroleum, food preparations (milk, broths, etc.), local products (cereals, live animals) and edible oils ... .. "
These women who do honor: "It is one of the few women's associations active on the ground in the District of Bamako. Led by Mrs. Diawara Maïmouna Dembélé, she took up her quarters at the SEMA2 Terminus in the big agglomeration of Yirimadio, in Commune VI. Established years ago, Benkadi succeeded in bringing together the women of the neighborhood, to unite their efforts around the ideals of understanding, cohesion, peace. "Maï", for children, "Maminé", for his mothers and sisters, is at the base of this adventure. Adventure which aims to give the Malian Woman the dignified place that is her own in society. In the 25th of March, hundreds of them were gathered in the main square adjoining the home of the president of the association, Maï. The internationally renowned singer, DjénébaSeck, celebrated the ceremony dedicated to the festivities of the 8th of March, World Women's Day. Under the coordination of women 's associations and organizations (CAFO), Mai and his comrades from Benkadi did not miss the meeting of the National Entente Conference. They were seen in the palace in large numbers and with their husbands. But for this adventure to be successful, much remains to be done. Some Benkadi activists believe that the Ministry should consider supporting them, simply by strengthening their capacities, and also by equipping them with means of production and so on. Others are eyeing the CAFO with the endowment of the association with working materials. " Look, women from other quarters make dyes, soaps and many things. If we were given material, it would be better, "says Fanta, a member of Benkadi. In the meantime, Maï and her comrades are working to clean up their neighborhood, the SEMA2 Terminus de Yirimadio. " They are on every front of the neighborhood, "says old Sidiki, a notable place. By referring to their participation in information and public awareness campaigns during school re-entry, threats of epidemics ... .. "
SOUTH AFRICA:
Ellen Zille sanctioned for her tweets: "In South Africa, the Democratic Alliance opposition party launched a disciplinary action against its former leader believing that it discredited the party. Ellen Zille had praised the advantages of colonialism in a series of tweets. The current leader of the DA, Mmusi Maimane, who succeeded Ellen Zille in 2015, explained that this was not an easy decision but that Zille's writings undermine the party's plan to build a non-democratic democracy. Racial and prosperous. The DA won a 22% of the votes in the general election of 2014, second in behind the ANC, and hopes to capitalize its good score of local elections in 2016 during the general elections of 2019. Ellen Zille - who is still scheduled to continue as Western Cape's prime minister - could possibly be excluded from the party because of his tweets. A listener from a local radio station has said, as far as Ellen Zille's tweets about colonialism are concerned, that it is a bit like saying that the Holocaust was bad but that the engineers of Hitler were brilliant. "Whatever the advantages of colonialism, they have been degrading and have left black South Africans in a state of bondage, and to assert that colonialism has brought benefits is to somehow say that colonial culture was in a way Or another better or more advanced or more advantageous than the culture of indigenous peoples of South Africa, "said James Selfen, a member of the Executive Secretariat of the DA. However, Mmusi Maimane, stressed that it is incorrect to draw conclusions to say that she is racist. "It's not the person I know," he concluded. Helen Zille is a well-known anti-apartheid activist who, at the time she was a journalist, helped reveal the authorities' concealment of the death in custody of black activist Steve Biko in 1977.) ... "
Crédit : IMPERIUM MEDIA
