Central Africa

The Gulf of Guinea's oil producer is diversifying its economic system, and to take action it has determined to deal with the Central African Financial Neighborhood (CEMAC) market, which has virtually 50 million individuals. customers. Six Gabonese industrial firms have been permitted in accordance with the overall profit charge from CEMAC. Within the coming days, 70 "Made in Gabon" merchandise will…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the resumption of production and issuance of biometric passports, originally scheduled for Monday, November 23, has been postponed to a later date. By June 2020, the controversial agreement between the DRC and the consortium of companies in the Semlex group, which specializes in the production of passports, had ended. Since this period, it is impossible to get a new…

The two nearest capitals of the world, separated by the Congo River, Brazzaville and Kinshasa, share the same spectrum of transmission and telecommunications frequencies. This sometimes gives rise to misunderstandings. For a coordinated management of these frequencies, the regulatory authorities in the two cities have just concluded an agreement.…

The first hearings of the trial of the leaders against Balaka Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred YekatomRhombot are scheduled for The Hague on 9 February. In the Central African Republic, the International Criminal Court continues to receive the victims of these two alleged perpetrators and carefully records their testimony. as…

No spectacular announcements about African debt at the G20 summit held practically this weekend. The countries in the south, and in particular Africa, were hoping for details after the G20 funding that had been held a week earlier. We talked about a new mechanism for debt restructuring in poor countries involving creditors like China. But obviously we have to wait for new messages.…

In the Central African Republic, the deadline is fast approaching. And if all actors are active in organizing the presidential and legislative elections, civil society, for its part, is also preparing through education like those in Minusca. She wants to be ready to play her role in this second election since the 2013 crisis.…

Félix Tshisekedi's supporters accuse Joseph Kabila's political family of blocking current power. They also explain that the country's resources are not being directed effectively. They cite in particular the costs that the government allocates to Joseph Kabila, as a special pension under the former president of the republic. For them, we must reduce them.…

At the initiative of the Congolese Ministry of Forestry, Brazzaville will host the fourth edition of the plant fair until the end of November. This fair is still called the meeting place for green hands and is an exhibition for gardeners who sell fruit trees, medicinal plants and forest species, to the delight of the planters. The results from previous editions are very flattering.…

This is the big annual meeting for fans of the 7th art in Madagascar. The 15th edition of the short film meetings started this weekend in the cinema at the French Institute in Antananarivo. A Pan-African short film festival that this year brings together works by some thirty directors from the Big Island and the continent, especially from Kenya, Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast,…

The head of the crushing room at the Central Bank of Congo in Lubumbashia was arrested on Friday, November 20, for embezzling public funds. But according to NGO Justicia Asbl, a dozen other agents should be investigated for theft in 2019 of bags of used Congolese banknotes that are normally intended to be perforated and then crushed.…