Promoting Africa
The Confederation of African Football has selected Morocco to replace Kenya as host of the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN). The emergency committee of the African Football Confederation (CAF) met Saturday in Lagos and unanimously decided to give Morocco the green light ahead of Equatorial Guinea. Original hosts Kenya fell behind with five-venue preparations for the biennial 16-team…
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The Angolan authorities announced that the first satellite of the country will be launched in December. Ukrainian-made Zenit carrier rocket, loaded with an AngoSat-1 satellite built at Angola's request, will be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Angolan engineers in aerospace, trained in China, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and Russia, will guarantee the operation of…
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The Rwandan national company Rwandair, has started since the first week of October 2017, its three weekly flights from Dakar. Cotonou was until then its West African hub in West Africa. The Rwandan Ambassador to Senegal Dr Mathias Harebamungu, officially launched Rwandair's activities in Senegal, which highlights an economic association, not only between the two…
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation, TEF, Africa’s leading philanthropy, recently announced a plan to host 1,300 African Entrepreneurs, Business leaders and Policymakers from 54 countries, in Lagos. “Since launching the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme and committing $100 million to empowering 10,000 African entrepreneurs in a decade, the TEF has boosted over 3,000 entrepreneurs, who have created tens…
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Jessica Allogo is today one of the figures of the "made in Gabon", and a fervent defendant of the Gabonese soil. She created "Les petits pots de l'Ogooué", a brand of organic jam. Fell in the jamb a little by chance! After a brilliant career in an oil company in Gabon, she decides to tackle…
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A Beninese doctoral student, Marielle Yasmine Agbahoungbata, won the 2017 edition of the international scientific popularization competition "My thesis in 180 seconds". The latter received its prize on Friday 28 September at the University of Liège, Belgium. Laureate 2017: Marielle Yasmine Agbahoungbata Marielle studies at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. Her thesis focuses on the…
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SAPPGO.COM is the first Cameroonian online supermarket that gives anyone the opportunity to shop safely and make good deals. Order on the internet its food products, which the employees of sappgo.com take charge of buying in markets, grocery stores and other supermarkets, and delivering them to you at home, against fees. The site will ensure…
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