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President Akinwumi Adesina was sworn in for his second term as head of the African Development Bank, whose priorities he recalled. Ghana's Minister of Finance, Kenneth Ofori-Atta, becomes Chairman of the Board of Governors. In 2021, the Annual Meetings of the AfDB (African Development...

Is the digital economy mature enough in Tunisia? This is the question that a study prepared last January by the World Bank attempted to answer. According to the diagnosis established by the World Bank, the maturity of the Tunisian digital...

What if the gradual lifting of deconfinement measures were an opportunity to implement new, pan-African technologies and protocols? This is the wish, in the perspective of the Continental Free Trade Area of ​​former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. Op-ed by former President of Nigeria...

Washington's move followed the inability of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan to agree on a unified document on the management of the contested initiative. The United States has stopped part of its financial support to Ethiopia due to a lack of advancement in the negotiations...

The French Development Agency publishes a rich atlas on Africa. The book allows us to observe the progress made by the continent in recent decades, and to situate it in relation to the rest of the world. The trajectory of the African continent and...

Eight candidates are in the running to regain the leadership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the departure of Director-General Roberto Azevedo. World trade is at a standstill because of COVID-19. The prospect of a "no-deal" and a trade war between the United...

Dozens of people were arrested on Sunday by Belarusian police trying to break up an opposition demonstration against the controversial re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. The demonstrators are contesting the victory of Alexander Lukashenko, 66 years old, 26 of whom...

The MENA NGO Oxfam international denounces the increase in wealth of the richest and the worsening of inequalities. It calls for corrective measures to better respond to the social and health emergency. The wealth of the 21 billionaires in the MENA region (Middle East...

He has been on the job since the end of 2012 and has been fighting ulcerative colitis, a chronic disease, for several years. Political thunderstorm in Japan. Aged 65, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign on Friday, August 28, for...

The Abidjan court of first instance on Tuesday ruled the removal of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo from the electoral list. This decision has serious consequences, as it definitively eliminates Laurent Gbagbo from the list of citizens likely to run for the presidential election...