SENEGAL:
Place de la Nation: Official start of the parade at the Place de la Nation: "The President of the Republic Macky Sall arrived at precisely 10 AM at the place of the Nation to attend the parade of the armed forces for the celebration of the Independence Day of Senegal. The president was preceded by guest of honor Fatoumata Tambadieng, vice president of The Gambia but also by Moustapha Niasse and Ousmane Tanor Dieng respectively president of the National Assembly and Hcct. Role of the defense and security forces in the protection of the environment is the theme of this 57th anniversary of the independence of Senegal. The official program includes the naval magazine followed by the air parade, the motorized parade, the civil parade, the pedestrian march of the schools, the military parade and paramilitary parade ... "
SIDIKI KABA: The "miracle": "Let us stay with the Minister in charge of Justice to talk about the accident he was the victim, along with his driver, last weekend. According to our sensitive radars, Me Sidiki Kaba was with the head of state, abroad, when he was told his sister's recall to God. Without waiting, he sought an Air France ticket to return, with the permission of the Head of State. As soon as he arrived, he prepared to go to Tambacounda. It was on the road that the accident occurred. Those who have witnessed the scene still do not return. The minister's fine car was completely boneless. The witnesses of the scene have given thanks to God since there was no death of man. The minister was hit, but the driver suffered the most damage. Both Mr Sidiki Kaba and the driver are still in a hospital in the Dakar square. God be praised. We wish them speedy recovery ... .. "
CAMEROON:
African Union: Alain Blaise Batongue elected as the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council for a two-year term: "His election took place at the end of the mid-term ordinary session of the Second Permanent General Assembly of the Economic and Social Council of the African Union (Ecosocc), held in Cairo, Egypt, from the 27th to the 31st of March 2017. In his role as the Vice-President, Alain Blaise Batongue, Executive Secretary of the Cameroon Intergovernmental Grouping (GICAM), is initially entrusted with subregional responsibility to manage all due diligence that will be delegated to him by the Presidency, Ecosocc, with priority being given to setting up the national antennae of the organization. It will also perform a diplomatic and representation function, reports the economic magazine Invest in Cameroon. In this context, it will be learned, as a member of the organization's task force, in late June 2017 in Tunis (Tunisia), of a Jaes / Cso Forum (Joint Africa and Europa Strategy for Civil Society Organizations), whose conclusions and recommendations will have to be weighed at the summit of the Europe-Africa Heads of State, scheduled for late November in Ivory Coast. Presented by GICAM, Alain Blaise Batongue was elected a member of Ecosocc following the General Assembly of the 21st of December 2014 held in Nairobi, Kenya, and served as Acting Chairman of the Committee on Rural Economy and Agriculture until his election as the vice-president in the 30th of March. Its position within this AU institution will enable it to ensure better advocacy around the concerns of civil society and the private sector of the country and the subregion ... "
Marafa Hamidou Yaya is better: He was at the Emergency Center in Yaounde due to the deterioration of his health Today, Marafa Hamidou Yaya is better, according to the daily Info Matin in newsstands this Tuesday. "It was Thursday (The 30th of March, Ed.) That the Minister of State was taken to us. It was in a rather disturbing state. But the technical platform at our disposal has allowed us to stabilize it, and it is recovering little by little. The medical team handles the case with great care and professionalism. Already out of danger, everything is done so that, shortly, he can return to the SED, "a medical source told the newspaper. Nothing, however, filters out the harm suffered by the Minister Marafa. At the Emergency Center in Yaounde, we talked about respecting medical secrecy. It is not the first time that this former close collaborator of the President Paul Biya knows such a serious alert. Since his imprisonment in the 16th ofApril 2012, he has been interned several times. In the 29th of August 2016, for example, it was announced that the man had just been operated successfully at the Yaounde military hospital by a French doctor while suffering from a cataract in the left eye. Between 2013 and 2014, he had taken several tours at the University Teaching Hospital (CHU) in Yaoundé .... "
Increase in appropriations for the UBA subsidiary: "The Cameroonian subsidiary of the Nigerian banking group Union of Bank Africa (UBA) has increased the credit granted to its customers in 2016 by 109 billion CFA against 71 billion CFA the previous year. According to sources close to this banking institution, this increase of more than 30 billion CFA of the volume of loans granted by UBA Cameroon is explained by important financing made available by the bank for the realization or the development of large projects Infrastructure in the country. As an example, UBA invested 72.5 billion CFA in government securities, up from 50.7 billion CFA, or 22 billion Dollar in this segment. It is also a loan of 24.5 billion CFA granted to the Cameroonian government to finance its counterpart of the project to build a 600,000-seat stadium in Yaounde, as a prelude to the organization of the Cup of Africa (CAN) 2019 to host Cameroon. The increase in loans is due to an increase in customer deposits of 221 billion CFA at the 31st of December 2016, compared with 191 billion CFA a year earlier ... ... "
IVORY COAST:
When innovation is put at the service of development: "Like the launch of its new fund for invention and innovation, Ivory Coast has an unprecedented dynamism in terms of technological development. In full economic growth, the country is now one of the leading African nations in the field. In the 17th of March, the Federation of Inventors and Innovators of Ivory Coast (Fedinci) announced the creation of a loan guarantee fund estimated at 300 million CFA (457,000 Euro). Through this initiative, Fedinci proposes to guarantee itself for borrowings, the amount of which may vary between 3 million and 30 million CFA, and which will cover up to 70 beneficiaries per year over a five-year period. According to Pierre Djibril Coulibaly, inventor and president of the organization, the total amount covered could even reach 2 billion CFA (3.05 million Euro). The latter added that "The success of the establishment of this fund and its good management will enable Ivory Coast in the next 10 years to make profitable all of its current and future inventions, 500 companies With the creation of 12,000 new direct jobs and more than 100,000 indirect ones ". The launch of this fund is barely 1 month after the Fund for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation (FCIAD), which covers three years and for a sum of 5 billion CFA. The objective of this fund is to finance applied research projects with innovations in the agricultural sector, for amounts between 10 and 180 million FCFA. In a country where growth is at record levels (an 8.5% per year between 2012 and 2015), but which is experiencing a "worrying" level of poverty, technological innovation is a boon and seems to have become 'One of the pillars of the emergence of the country ... .. "
MALI:
Mali in the era of Public-Private Partnership: The study as the focal point of PPP projects requires the creation of a fund: "Mali has just put in place the legislative and regulatory framework of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) by adopting the texts whose law n ° 2016-061 of the 30th of December 2016 on Public-Private Partnerships in Mali. In order to gain a better understanding of this innovative financing method and the capacity building of public and private actors, the Ministry for the Promotion of Investment and Private Sector organized, for the press, In the 31st of March 2017, a training workshop on PPP at l'Escale Gourmande at ACI 2000. It was in the presence of the representative of the Department of Investment and Private Sector, Isaac Maïga, experts in PPP, including Skander Ben Abdallah Canadian Expert and Professor in the Department of Management and Technologies and Mr. Issakha Ndiaye Avocat at the Paris Bar . ... "
BURKINA FASO:
The AFD launches investment fund dedicated to the infrastructure in developing countries: "Agence Française de Développement and Caisse des Dépôts announced in Ouagadougou the creation of a joint investment vehicle dedicated to infrastructure in developing countries in development. The announcement was made Tuesday in Ouagadougou by the General Manager of the French Development Agency Rémy Rioux and the General Manager of the Caisse des Dépôts Pierre-René Lemas, on the occasion of their first joint displacement in Africa, Where is. "The creation of a joint infrastructure investment vehicle with € 600 million of capital is part of the common strategy set out in the charter of the Alliance, signed in the 6 th of December 2016 in Paris, between the AFD and the CDC, in the presence of the President of the Republic, concretization of the strategic rapprochement between the two institutions, 'said a statement. "The common vehicle in infrastructure will make investments of around 6 billion Euro leverage and should be operational as of this year, after its formal validation by the decision-making bodies of the two institutions, It is said. It will draw on the expertise of the two institutions as well as their privileged partners, in particular French, and will focus on Greenfield infrastructure projects and will intervene in the energy, transport, water and sanitation sectors , Telecommunications and digital infrastructure, waste treatment, land-use planning and health and education ... "
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