Philippe Delebecque, a renown French jurist, has condemned the seizure of a Moroccan phosphate cargo in South Africa in May, calling it “political piracy.” Delebecque saluted the decision by... Read more
Last September 16, the thrust block of a culvert crumbled in Ebomé, along the Yaoundé-Douala road which is part of the Douala-Ndjamena and Douala-Bangui corridors. Few days later, on Septemb... Read more
Eleven of the best startups in Cameroon will compete on September 29, 2017, in Douala, the economic capital, to represent the country during the global summit of SeedstarsWolrd a government... Read more
Last September 21, around 700 workers and executives of Camrail, Bolloré Transport & Logistics Cameroun, SEPBC (Douala’s lumber yard concessionaire), DIT (concessionaire of the Doaula po... Read more
In Cameroon, the ministry of economy, just signed multiple technical and economic agreements with China regarding phase two of a drinking water supply project which covers nine Cameroonian... Read more
In Morocco, a group of deputies from the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), one of the country’s major parties, submitted to the parliament a draft bill to better protect State lands.... Read more
London doesn’t make the top 11 in a ranking of the friendliest cities in Britain by personal finance firm Provident Personal Credit.The firm asked thousands of people in cities across... Read more
The economic profession has got a bad rap in Britain recently with the failure of “so-called experts” often cited by pro-Brexit campaigners as a reason to mistrust economists who... Read more
If you find yourself wishing you travelled more, you might just be living in the wrong country.International relocation firm MoveHub conducted a study to find out which countries have the mo... Read more
The investment consultancy firm Mercer has ranked the world’s most expensive cities to live in as part of its annual Cost of Living Survey.Contrary to the assumption that Western citie... Read more
Francehas opened what it claims to be the world’s first solar panel road, in a Normandy village. A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of... Read more
Melania Trump’s address to the spouses of world leaders of the United Nations on Wednesday resulted in an unexpected strain of backlash. While the first lady addressed issues of bullyi... Read more
Not all carbs are created equal. A growing body of evidence suggests that whole grains are a key component of a healthy diet. As opposed to their refined cousins, whole grains are an excelle... Read more
PepsiCo’s CEO has finally shared her perspective on the company’s controversial ad starring Kendall Jenner. “I’ve thought about it a lot because I looked at the ad again a... Read more
Microsoft has confirmed that it plans to open its first UK store on London’s famous Regent Street. The US tech giant announced the store in a blog post on Thursday after RetailWeek bro... Read more
FICC Markets Standards Board analysed 200 years of enforcement cases, reviewing 400 cases from 19 countries. FMSB report found 26 common types of market misconduct, including insider trading... Read more
An 18-year-old man has been charged with carrying out the Parsons Green bomb attack, police have said. Ahmed Hassan has been accused of the attack, which took place one week ago in west Lond... Read more
On Sunday, September 24, Germans will head to the polls and vote for a new parliament — perhaps even a new chancellor.Pollsters are currently projecting an election victory for Angela Merkel... Read more
More overseas tourists visited the UK in July than during any month on record, as a slump in the pound sharpened the country’s appeal as a holiday destination. More than four million trips t... Read more
US President Donald Trump appeared to invent a new African state, “Nambia,” during a lunch with African leaders in New York on Wednesday. While listing achievements of various countries of t... Read more
On September 20, the ministry of public works (MINTP) officially handed over maritime surveillance equipment to authorities of the Douala port. This is to reinforce the port’s operatio... Read more
Moroccan storyteller, Mehdi El Ghaly, was denied a visa to the UK to take part in the Wigtown Book Festival in Dumfries and Galloway, South-western Scotland. The Home Office, the UK’s lead g... Read more
The Cameroon Women Business Leaders Association (CWBLA), a grouping of businesswomen founded and lead by Adélaïde Ngallé Miano, signed a partnership agreement with microfinance institution N... Read more
The Cameroonian employers’ association is not pleased with IMF’s strategy for Cameroon recently revealed by the institution’s Deputy Managing Director, Mitsuhiro Furusawa, who visited the co... Read more
Cote d’Ivoire has delivered average GDP growth of 9 per cent a year in the last five years driven by an agricultural transformation that has moved value addition and agricultural processing... Read more
Biotechnology company Syngenta has launched a call to action at a pre-event during the 2017 Africa Green Revolution Forum, laying out the company’s four key transformation projects in Africa... Read more
An alliance of agricultural organizations has launched a comprehensive platform, encompassing a seed and soil program, at the 2017 Africa Green Revolution Forum in Abidjan, in a drive to acc... Read more
Agribusiness is by far Africa’s most attractive business sector, accounting for 25 per cent of the continent’s GDP and 70 per cent of is employment, but it is yet to have its potential unloc... Read more
