SENEGAL:
A 2.4% increase in the price per liter of the vegetable oil in February 2017: ""The price of one liter of the vegetable oil in the Senegalese market rose by a 2.4%, in February 2017," has informed APA on Thursday with the Directorate of Forecasting and Economic Studies (DPEE). Its foodstuff exchanged during the period under review at 1,425 CFA Franc (about 2,28 Dollar). In its latest estimates, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated the world supply of vegetable oils at 206.7 million Ton, a 0.3% decline from the February 2017 forecast..."
UEMOA: 990 billion FCFA of the government securities emissions: ""The member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) realized 990 billion FCFA (approximately 1.584 billion Dollar) emissions of the government securities in the first quarter of 2017," reports the quarterly newsletter of the agency UMOA-Titres based in Dakar. These emissions, says the same source, amounted to 342 billion FCFA in January 2017, 418 billion FCFA in February 2017 and 230 billion FCFA in March 2017..."
CAMEROON:
The Moroccan Platinum Power will build the Makay hydroelectric shooting: "The Moroccan Platinum Power will build Makay hydroelectric shooting | Ph. Illustration. "The State of Cameroon and the Moroccan company Platinum Power, a subsidiary of the US investment fund Brookstone Partners, will sign in the 13th of April the terms of reference related to the construction of a hydroelectric shooting in the locality of Makay (Center)," said on Thursday to the relevant departments of the Ministry of Water and Energy in Yaoundé..."
23 billion for the census of the agriculture and the livestock in Cameroon: ""The envelope allocated to the census of the agriculture and the livestock in Cameroon amounts to 23.6 billion CFAF," informed APA on Thursday at the end of the second session of the National Technical Committee of the General Census of Agriculture and Livestock (GGAE)..."
Investments: Cameroon multiplies offensives abroad: " These last years, the government has courted countries such as China, France, USA, Turkey, Italy, Nigeria and even India; so that they can invest in Cameroon. Clearly, a year has gone by without the Cameroonian government not failing to look sweet to the foreign investors..."
NIGERIA:
The FAO seeks 62 million Dollar in funding to boost the agriculture in the northeast: "The FAO has requested 62 million Dollar from the UN to support farmers in northeastern Nigeria, in view of the next rainy season. "As part of the humanitarian response plan for Nigeria, the FAO is requesting 62 million Dollar in funding. The only way to cope with the food crisis currently faced by the people of north-east Nigeria is to combine food assistance with a strategy to increase the agricultural production in the region," said the FAO's interim representative in Nigeria, Nourou Tall..."
The IMF warns of a necessary urgent need for reforms: "A delegation from the Bretton Woods institution was completing a five-day visit to Abuja on Wednesday, the Nigerian capital. At the end of their visit, the IMF experts advocate that the country, whose growth contracted by a 1.5% last year, abandons its restrictions on the circulation of the foreign currencies and its multiple exchange rate..."
BURKINA FASO:
Banque Atlantique launches two products on the mutual funds and the securities accounts: "The BABF introduced for the first time on the Burkinabe financial market, the Mutual Funds Placement (MFP) and Securities Accounts (SA), in the logical continuation of "its strategy of development and differentiation in the face of increasing competition." The launching of these products allows the bank to "resolutely engage in a dynamic of innovation and inventiveness in its commercial policy by putting the customer at the heart of its commitment", according to its first official, the Ivorian Yssouf Gbané..."
The BOA Burkina will pay its shareholders a dividend of 6.930 FCFA in May 2017: ""The Bank of Africa (BOA) Burkina Faso, a subsidiary of the banking group of the same name, will pay in the 4th of May, 2017, in respect of 2016, a net dividend per share of 6,930 CFAF (approximately 11,088 Dollar)," informed APA on Thursday from this bank based in Ouagadougou. In the 31st of December, 2016, this banking institution achieved an after-tax profit of 12.442 billion FCFA (1 FCFA equals 0.0016 dollars), an increase of a 3%..."
IVORY COAST:
The renovation of the buildings facades launched in Koumassi: "On behalf of the Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the Minister of State, the Minister of the Interior and Security, Hamed Bakayoko, launched on Thursday the pilot operation of the renovation works of the facades of the public and private buildings of Abidjan city, at the Crafts School in Koumassi. "All the projects that will address the issue of youth employment will always be considered by the government as priorities, but it is your duty to believe in you, in your potential," says the youth Minister Hamed Bakayoko..."
One hundred billion FCFA invested in Ivory Coast in 18 months (CEO Heineken): "One hundred billion CFA Franc have been invested in Ivory Coast over a period of 18 months," announced the CEO of Heineken Group in Abidjan on Wednesday, Jean François Van Boxmeer, at the end of a hearing granted to him by the Head of State, Alassane Ouattara..."
Coffee-cocoa sector, SYNAP-CI wants to file a complaint against the Coffee-Cocoa Council and exporters as of Friday: "They have been watching an unlimited strike for a few days in the coffee-cocoa sector because of the slump in their cocoa beans. Yesterday through their lawyers, the members of the National Agricultural Syndicate for Progress in Ivory Coast (SYNAP-CI), presided by Koné Moussa, decide to file a complaint against the Council Search Coffee-Cocoa Council (CCC) and exporters in the face of the cocoa marketing crisis..."
Crédit : IMPERIUM MEDIA
