The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading champion of entrepreneurship, is pleased to announce that applications for its 2025 Entrepreneurship Programmes are now open. Aspiring and existing entrepreneurs from across Africa are invited to apply for a chance to receive world-class training, expert mentoring, and non-refundable seed capital funding to scale their businesses. Programmes Open...
Gabon will host the first-ever Global Gateway Investment Forum on January 30, 2025. This event, organized under the auspices of the European Union (EU), aims to promote transformative investments that can stimulate sustainable development in the country and within the sub-region. Economic actors from the public and private sectors, donors, development financial institutions (DFIs), banks...
The Ministry of Economy’s Sectoral Outlook Note, devoted to the months of July, August and September, analyzes the performance of the cash crop agriculture sector. In this part of the Gabonese economy, palm plantations have weighed down this segment. As for wet rubber production, it improved by 18.5% in the third quarter of 2024. The...
Louis Paul Motaze, Minister of Finance , is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Development Bank of Central African States ( BDEAC), at the same time Chairman of the General Assembly of the said institution. He replaces in this position, the Chadian Tahir Hamid Ngulin, Minister of State, Minister of Finance, Budget, Economy...
United Bank for Africa (UBA) has announced the appointment of Joseph ABENA as Regional Marketing and Communication Director for the CEMAC region. This choice demonstrates the group’s confidence in its local talents and its desire to assert its presence in this strategic area. UBA Group, a major player in the African banking sector, has started...
In Libreville, the President of the Gabonese Transition, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, welcomed a delegation of Egyptian businessmen as part of a partnership aimed at boosting investments. The Nkok Special Investment Zone and other strategic sectors are at the heart of this new era of cooperation between Libreville and Cairo. The President of the Transition,...
Surrounded by all the notables, economic and political elites of the Western region, the Prime Minister proceeded with the official opening of this infrastructure intended for the development of economic activity in this part of the country. The Prime Minister in fact unveiled the inaugural plaque of the Youpwe landing stage and fish market in...
To address Cameroon’s high food dependence on imports, the government has launched a vast land security project covering 400,000 hectares on the Yoko-Lena-Tibati corridor. The aim is to stimulate local production of food crops and reduce the cost of cereal imports. The Cameroonian government is going on the offensive in the face of food challenges....
The SONARA rehabilitation project, which was severely affected by the 2019 fire, is entering a new phase. The Cameroonian government, with the support of the IMF, is examining the feasibility of integrating a hydrocracking unit into this refinery, which is vital to the country’s oil industry. The rehabilitation of the National Refining Company (Sonara), one...
