Ethiopia and Djibouti signs deal to build 765km pipeline. Kenya secures geothermal drilling project in Ethiopia. Ethiopian airlines launches domestic flights in Mozambique. By Alexandre Nhampossa The African company Ethiopians airlines, through its subsidiary Ethiopians Mozambique Airlines, began on Saturday to make flights on the domestic routes of the country, after having made its first successful flight on the Maputo – Beira – Maputo route on November 28.
In a first phase the company will fly on the routes Maputo, Tete, Manica, Beira, Chimoio, Quelimane and Nacala Porto with two Bombardiers Q400 New Generation, 70 seats, registered in its name, which operates with the sales code ET 071. The entry of the company in Mozambique is a result of the policy of liberalization of national airspace enacted last year by the Mozambican Government, aiming to make air transport competitive in the country. LAM, meanwhile, has continued to face challenges including grounded aircraft due to lack of maintenance and spare parts, and fuel shortages. On its first day of operations, Ethiopians Airlines came in at quite attractive prices.
Comments comments. Sonatrach makes oil discovery in Niger. African nations join together to create the biggest free trade area since the World Trade Organization. Lawyers for Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen appeared on CNN on Tuesday night to battle it out over the ongoing legal dispute regarding a nondisclosure agreement Daniels, a former adult film actress, signed in 2016.
Arthur Schwartz, representing President Trump's personal attorney Cohen, mostly traded barbs with Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti over the nitty-gritty of the contract that barred the actress from discussing an alleged affair with Trump. But Schwartz clashed with host Anderson Cooper when the conversation turned to whether or not Cohen had violated the NDA by publicly discussing it and confirming that he had paid Daniels $130,000 for her silence.
(Trump has steadfastly denied he was ever involved with Daniels.) Schwartz shut down the suggestion, and said that Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, had already violated the agreement before Cohen publicly discussed the payment last month. "How had she violated the contract? " Kenya’s mSurvey to launch in Nigeria. Dr.
Kenfield Griffith PhD, mSurvey CEO and co-Founder MSurvey, the mobile-first consumer experience platform, has announced that it is expanding into Nigeria. The move comes as the Kenya-based company seeks to consolidate its position as a technology-powered customer loyalty platform in Africa. Backed by international and African investors, including Safaricom’s Spark Fund, Cross Culture Ventures and Alpha Angels, mSurvey will be opening a new office and growing a Lagos-based team, who will focus on building partnerships with Nigerian MNOs and Banks, before rolling out their services namely, Voice of the Customer, Consumer Wallet and Net Promoter Score to Nigeria. Launched in 2012, mSurvey has looked to bring hidden and offline voices into the global conversation, via in-depth, mobile phone conversations.
Dr. mSurvey’s official launch in Nigeria will coincide with the second Customer Loyalty NPS Masterclass, which will be held in Lagos on March 20th and 21st, 2018. Mozambique, Zimbabwe ink rails transportation deal - Journal du Cameroun. Ethiopia – Djibouti electric rail starts operations in November. Uganda to export power to neighbouring South Sudan. Uganda has pledged to supply power to two South Sudanese border towns as part of the East Africa Community agreement to help member states.
Uganda’s energy minister Simon D’janga said 400 kilo-volts of power will be supplied to the towns of Kaya and Nimule to boost socio-economic activities in the border areas, reported Sudanese news portal Sudan Tribune. “We will supply 400KV of electricity. We already have electricity in Nimule and Kaya but on Uganda side and now we want to extend it inside South Sudan,” he said, adding that the country will soon supply power to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “Uganda is already implementing cross-border electrification with Rwanda and Tanzania which is supplying power to Rakai, and we are going to connect power to eastern DR.
Congo. The two governments are yet to form joint committees that will establish the mode of implementation and mobilization of funds for the project. Mozambique-Malawi power transmission lines to evacuate 200MW. Following two decades of having signed a power trade agreement, the Mozambique-Malawi power transmission line project is officially set to begin in 2018.
According to the Southern Times, the delay in the project has been due to former Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika, who argued that Malawi was too poor to afford the monthly bill, expected to cost $480,000. Media reported that the project will involve the erection of a 218km high voltage power line with the capacity to transmit 200MW. Mateus Magala, president of the Mozambican state power company, Electricidade de Moçambique (EdM), said he expects financing of the project to be completed within three years and that construction of the line will take three years, and most of the energy will be produced by the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam.
In the 2017/18 fiscal year, Malawi allocated $18 million to the energy sector. ‘Intra-Africa trade could double to $400 billion’ Sifelani Tsiko, in Johannesburg, South Africa THE volume of intra-African trade could easily double to $400 billion from $170 billion if market information is shared and widely distributed among African countries, a trade analyst says.
Gainmore Zanamwe, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), senior manager for Intra-African Trade Initiative told delegates at the opening of the Sadc Industrialisation Week here yesterday that if Africa addresses the issue of availability of market information, trade volumes can breach the $400 billion mark and thrust the continent firmly towards industrialisation. Isidora & Company Advocates. El-Sisi’s visit to Tanzania heralds new era in bilateral cooperation By Paul Kibuuka @isidoralaw THE first state visit of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to Tanzania from Monday to Tuesday of this week, at the invitation of his counterpart President John Pombe Magufuli, has come at a time when the geopolitical-economic landscape of the River Nile basin and Africa at large is briskly changing.
The visit not only confirms the continuation of a partnership dating back to the Nyerere–Nasser epoch, but also presents an opportunity to boost trade and investments in the two African brother countries and indicates that Tanzania is open for business and tourism. High-level visits from Dar es Salaam and Cairo that picked up under previous Tanzanian and Egyptian presidents set out a comprehensive set of mutual interests, expectations and challenges in the two countries and in the wider Nile River basin, which spreads over 10 countries, including Tanzania and Egypt.
Untitled. The drive to capitalize on landlocked Uganda’s new-found oil reserves entered a new phase recently when the presidents of Uganda and Tanzania ceremonially kicked off construction of a $3.55bn pipeline to carry the crude to port in Tanzania.
The 1,445-km-long pipe, set for completion by 2020, will stretch from Uganda’s western region where crude reserves were discovered in 2006 to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean seaport of Tanga. It will be the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in the world, said Guy Maurice, Senior Vice President of Africa at Total Exploration and Production. Total is one of the owners of Ugandan oil fields, alongside China’s CNOOC and Tullow Oil of the UK. Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni urged the three joint venture partners to build the pipeline quickly, even before 2020. Kenya trade expo in Ghana to boost intra-African trade. Kenyan businessmen will have opportunity to explore investment and trade opportunities in west Africa following a trade expo to be held in Ghana in November.
The trade expo targeting established and emerging businessmen is aimed at enhancing trade relations between Kenya and Ghana following seven key trade agreements signed between the two countries in December 2014. The bilateral agreements were established to position Ghana as the gateway for trade to West Africa while Kenya will help in accessing the East African region. Briefing the media Ghana’s acting High Commissioner to Kenya, Mr. Cartographie de la présence des grandes entreprises marocaines en Afrique. Ethiopia to export power to South Sudan, Somaliland.
Ethiopia, Sudan agree on free trade zone. Tanzania to buy 400 megawatts of power from Ethiopia. The Development Potential of Cross-Border Infrastructure in Africa: A Job Creation Perspective. How can Africa leverage the potential of cross-border infrastructure to address critical economic bottlenecks, boost regional integration and intra-African trade, and create employment for the continent’s growing population?
Cross-border infrastructure (CBI) is a key prerequisite for the regional integration of landlocked economies and the facilitation of trade in goods and services. In the energy sector, hydroelectric plants can support stable regional electricity trading markets that distribute affordable electricity via cross-border transmission lines. In the transport sector, cross-border road and rail infrastructure is necessary to build regional economic development corridors.
Hence, CBI is an effective solution to address some of the most critical bottlenecks to regional integration and economic transformation in Africa. Three dimensions of job creation. Maroc-Éthiopie : Un mégaprojet industriel sur les rails. LA TRANSSAHARIENNE ALGER-LAGOS SERA ACHEVEE AVANT LA FIN 2017 : Aller au Nigeria en voiture, c’est possible. M. Sellal avait, aussi, annoncé que "la pose en territoire algérien du câble de fibre de verre relié au réseau international pour alimenter et désenclaver cette vaste zone du continent en matière de TIC tout au long de l’axe Alger-Lagos a été achevé". Le projet de la route transsaharienne Alger-Lagos est née dans les années 1960 à l'initiative de la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique (CEA) afin de désenclaver les zones déshéritées et de promouvoir les échanges entre le nord et le sud du Sahara. Egypt expects Africa's largest free trade deal talks to complete early 2018.
Tunisia prepares to join Africa’s biggest trading bloc. Tunisia is expected to become the 20th member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) during the body’s next summit scheduled to take place in October. Prime Minister Yousef Chahed said they are preparing to conclude the negotiations which officially began last year. COMESA’s Secretary General Sindiso Ngwenya informed the Tunisian Prime Minister that the adhesion to the organization’s treaty will require Tunisia “to simultaneously join COMESA financial, technical, semi-autonomous and autonomous institutions.” The organization is the continent’s largest trading bloc and has continued to progress since its establishment in 1994. It already boasts a market of more than 490 million people and Tunisia will help it go above the half billion people mark.
Maroc-Ghana : deux fonds souverains pour un partenariat stratégique. Road linking Ethiopia and South Sudan to be constructed. Two major roads linking Ethiopia and South Sudan are set to be constructed following the signing of an agreement by the two countries. Also read:Opec bolsters road construction in Ethiopia Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir last week signed several bilateral agreements that include the immediate commencement of construction of two major road links.
They agreed that the construction will commence with immediate effect, to start the construction of the Gamebella – Pagak – Palouge and Dima – Raad – Boma – Bor roads. “When they get the peace back and the economy gets stronger, they will pay us back,” said Mr Hailemariam, indicating that Ethiopia would finance the construction of the roads within South Sudan. They said once the project is over the two countries’ trade agreement will be on the rise and that will see the locals improve their lives. African Corridor Alliance established to stimulate development. Staff Reporter Windhoek-Transport is a significant sector in that it reduces transactional costs in enhancing trade.
To facilitate infrastructure development, governments promote the expansion and improvement of development corridors. Corridors are the focal point for regional development initiatives. Transport corridors have been around for centuries, but it is only in the last few decades that they have been recognized for what they are and, more importantly, what they can become as well as the value they can add to economic growth. Rwanda, Mali airspace agreement to boost trade. Trade and tourism between Rwanda and Mali could flourish following a new bilateral Airspace Service Agreement signed yesterday in Kigali.
Both countries agreed to open their airspace allowing their national carriers to operate without restrictions. According to the agreement, all air service operations will be conducted under the fifth freedom arrangement, which means an airline has the right to carry passengers from one country to another and from that country to a third country. Media houses were present to cover the event. Les délégués africains discutent sur les éléments techniques de l’Accord sur la ZLEC. How African countries are working together to light up the continent. Njoki Ngethe could barely hear the cry of her newly born baby as she was gasping for air in the operating theatre. The doctors and nurses put in every effort to resuscitate her but failed.
The doctors had argued that she had eaten before the surgery which caused complications. However, the unspoken element of the unfortunate event was that the incident was escalated by a power outage coupled with the unavailability of a functioning generator in the hospital. Mrs Ngethe had lost 1.2 litres of blood after the outage. Ngethe’s loss in 2008 amongst many other tragic incidents fully describe the anguish of a dark continent.
The ravaging effect of blackouts and electricity outages in Africa has led to the pressing desire for improved electricity, being initiated in all discussion platforms. Last week, the East Africa Power Pool (EAPP) announced that its proposed power grid project that would run from Cairo to Cape Town, South Africa would commence in April this year. Comments. L’Afrique: Destination phare des exportations marocaines. Benin hit by Nigeria's car import ban. Surveying his sprawling car dealership on the fringes of Benin’s commercial hub Cotonou, Kassem Hijazi alternates between chainsmoking Marlboro cigarettes and puffing on a hookah. Uganda gets $151m loan for expressway to Rwanda.
Mauritius plans state-of-the-art “cyber-city” in Ghana. Share of Exports to other African Countries [1995-2008 Data] by Country. Share of Exports to other African Countries [1995-2008 Data] by Country. Le Soleil - Contrat de 20 MW : Le Sénégal vend de l’électricité au Mali. 27e Forum France-Afrique « Un sommet qui bénéficie aux firmes multinationales françaises et oublie les peuples africains. Ce forum intitulé « Sommet de Bamako pour le Partenariat, la Paix et l’Emergence » est le dernier rendez-vous africain de François Hollande. Il traitera principalement des questions sécuritaires. La transsaharienne Alger-Lagos sera achevée en 2017, annonce Abdemalek Sellal.
Western Cape wine companies to expand to Mozambique - Cape Business News. Egypt, Djibouti should enhance economic cooperation: President Sisi. Theconversation. Nigeria Willing to Partner with Morocco in Renewable Energies- Nigerian Paper. East Africa: Uganda, Egypt Strike Deal On River Nile. Tanzania to Import Electricity from Ethiopia by 2019. Maroc : Les IDE filent vers le Sud. “Tunisia Trading” expanding internationally, especially in Africa (Mounir Mouakher) Le Soleil - Projets d’infrastructures pour l’intégration de l’Afrique : 340 milliards de dollars nécessaires d’ici à 2040.
Algérie : Le forum africain est un succès. Algerian pushes for intra-African trade. Africa: Trade in Africa Larger Than Official Statistics Show - Experts. Les conditions d'une intégration économique. Algérie - La route Transsaharienne, un vecteur d'échanges africains Nord-Sud. Forum d’affaires algéro-africain, Alger (Algérie), 3 au 5 décembre 2016. East Africa: Dar es Salaam Port Increases Rwanda, Domestic Cargo. AU pushes up intra-African trade. Le Maroc, acteur majeur dans les investissements intra-africains.
Madagascar au sein du marché commun de l’Afrique australe et orientale. Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo get fibre optic connectivity. Champion Intra-Africa Exporters of Top Agro-Commodities[2014 Data] by Country. Kenya : Kenya to focus on Africa to boost exports - The Standard. Création d’un Conseil d’affaires algéro-éthiopien en début 2017. Bank Al-Maghrib s’allie à la Banque centrale des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest pour un meilleur contrôle. Untitled. Cameroon-Côte d'Ivoire financial markets boost ties. Le Maroc renforce son partenariat agricole avec le Sénégal. Kenya's Largest Bank To Enter Southern Africa Via Botswana Stock Exchange. Visa Openness & Intra-Africa Trade [2016 Date] by Country. L’Algérie et la Tunisie créent un pôle d’exportation commun.
La Tunisie et l’Algérie redécouvrent les pistes peu explorées du partenariat dans l’agriculture - Maghreb Emergent. L'Algérie et le Mali décident de la mise en place d'un conseil d'affaires conjoint - Maghreb Emergent. Le Maroc a quadruplé son commerce avec l’Afrique en dix ans. Sénégal-Mauritanie: lancement d’une ligne d’interconnexion électrique de 225 KV. Tanzania, Congo sign deal for joint petroleum exploration in Lake Tanganyika - Citizentv.co.ke. Kenya : Kenyan firm buys Tanzanian drugs manufacturer - The Standard. Maroc: Managem prend une participation dans un projet aurifère en Guinée. Only 3 Egyptian construction companies investing in Africa: EFCBC member.
Africa Makes Progress On Trade and Economic Integration. Nigeria, Niger Republic launch $2b trade corridor. Le Maroc investit 100 millions de dirhams en Côte d'Ivoire. Le marocain Attijariwafa bank va ouvrir une filiale au Tchad. Côte d'Ivoire: Le Société Libyenne LPTIC devient le 4è opérateur de téléphonie mobile. Share of Exports to other African Countries [1995-2008 Data] by Country. Logistique : Le marocain SJL ouvre son capital aux sud-africains, 500 MDH d’investissement. Ghabour Farms plan to expand its exports to African market in 2017. L'Afrique francophone doit intensifier sa coopération transfrontalière.
L’ingénierie marocaine renforce sa présence en Afrique. Un projet d’interconnexion de l'Algérie, le Mali, le Niger et du Tchad par la fibre optique annoncé > Regionale.info. Protocols to fast track Africa's integration. Africa's infrastructural projects impeded by slow integration. A.U seeks initiatives to boost intra-Africa trade. Intra-African Trade to Play Larger Role in Local GDP Contributions. Explicit cookie consent. Coastweek - The most from the coast. SA tyre giant sets up shop in Bulawayo. Un Schengen africain se met en marche – EurActiv.fr. Intra-African broadband terrestrial infrastructure. Intra-African trade could rival Asia. Intra-African trade costs highest of all developing regions. Visa Free by 2018? Africa's Open Visa Policy.