Lockdown of the great Libreville, disbursement of 250 billion CFA francs response fund, Food Bank, free transport are key taken by Gabonese authorities to curb the spread of Covid 19. The Representative of the International Monetary Fund IMF Boileau Loko has lauded these moves. But also expresses reservations over the implication of their application. The...
With a PhD in Software Engieneering, 28 year old Arielle Kitio Tsamo has revolutionized the tech industry in Cameroon through her startup Cameroon Youth School Tech Incubator CAYSTI. To the ambitious Cameroon, technology has no colour or gender. The Next Ensteine Forum Ambassador also believes that digital inclusion can only be a reality if children...
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, Chad now has a local production unit of hydro-alcoholic solutions. The Minister of Public Health, Pr. Mahamoud Youssouf Khayal, launched production on Friday. According to the Minister of Public Health, “this strategy aims to make this solution available in order to prevent scarcity, due to production stoppages linked to containment...
The Prime Minister of Cameroon has announced new measures, taken on April 9, 2020, following an inter – Ministerial meeting of the Committee responsible for implementing the government strategy to fight the pandemic. At the end of the working session held by videoconference, Joseph Dion Ngute unveiled seven additional measures which will be added to...
A new platform has just been launched for the management of natural resources in the Espace Tridom Interzone Congo (ETIC). This platform will involve local communities and indigenous people in the management of the Congolese part of the Tri-national zone of Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) A new initiative has just been launched to improve the management of...
Originally scheduled from April 4 to 19, 2020, the Douala International Business and Trade Fair (FIAC), under the label “FIAC-PmExchange 2020”, was postponed because of the Covid-19. But it could finally be held from October 17 to November 1, 2020. “A solution to the crisis is estimated by the experts towards the end of July....
The agency incharge of the management of Telecommunication Infrastructure GITGE plans to strengthens internet connectivity in the country, a move intended to curb the spread of Covid-19. Provision has been made to grant an Internet speed of 100 Mbps to the research laboratory of the Institute of Investigations in Public Health, in the district of...
Gabon’s Transport Minister Léon Armel Bounda Balonzi has launched the activities of Trans’Urb, the public bus company that will facilitate transportation of people in major cities of the country. The emergence of the new company is telling testimony of the promise made by the President Ali Bongo Ondimba who guaranteed free land transport by bus...
Cameroon’s Finance Minister, Louis Paul Motaze has set the term for the application of a measure to reduce custom tarrif by 5% for imported vehicles intended for public transport. The Cameroonian government decided to introduce a reduced customs tariff of 5% on imports of vehicles intended for transport by taxis and buses. The Government move...
