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The services company Axian and the banker Oragroup will jointly exploit digital innovations, in order to offer banking solutions to the poorest populations in Africa. This investment in financial inclusion is capturing a new audience. Pan-African groups Oragroup and Axian join forces to provide...

The African Import-Export Bank predicts a sharp decline in world trade in 2020. African trade is also expected to decline, but rebound from a low in April. Afreximbank issues a series of recommendations in favor of intra-African trade. Afreximbank published its Annual Africa Trade...

Financially, the continent presents limited risks, said a panel of economists convened by the Africa Trade Insurance Agency. The crisis has especially weakened the most fragile, which must be supported as a priority. Africa is expected to resume growth in 2021, but some countries...

America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, turning at a time of national crisis to a man whose character was forged by aching personal tragedy and who is pledging to restore calm and truth after Donald Trump's, exhausting and manic single term. In a...

Taken to the UN by Germany, these countries asked China in a joint declaration to "respect the human rights" of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Thirty-nine countries led to the UN by Germany, called on Tuesday in a joint statement to China to "respect the...

World Bank urges Chad to spend more on health and education. While it welcomes the efforts undertaken, the institution encourages the acceleration of reforms, so that the country depends less on oil resources. “As in the rest of the world, since March 2020, the...

The African Development Bank (ADB) Group's Asia Field Representation Office (SNAR) and the Co-financing, Syndication, and Financial Technical Services Department (FIST) organized a webinar for the Japanese private sector on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, on the theme: "Doing Business in Africa". About 250...

In turn, African countries need to think about how to tax digital companies, some of which generate income without creating jobs at home. In order to speed up thinking, ATAF is proposing a series of legislative proposals. Several members of the African Tax Administration...

A statement by the FAR General Staff said that on royal instructions, Abdeltif Loudyi, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government, in charge of National Defense Administration, received, Friday in Rabat, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, on a working visit to the Kingdom from...

To support this, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); in its last report published on the evening of Monday, 28 September 2020; is categorical: "Africa is a net creditor of the rest of the world". Indeed, "… every year, the equivalent...