Burkina Faso's Onatel 2018 net profits rise 12.5 pct ABIDJAN, March 19 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso
telecommunications firm Onatel SA registered a net
profit of 31.8 billion CFA francs ($55.35 million) in 2018, up
from 28.3 billion CFA francs the year before, the company said
late on Tuesday.
Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:48:11 +0000 Mixed rain news in Ivory Coast raises concerns over cocoa mid-crop ABIDJAN, March 18 (Reuters) - Abundant showers in most of
Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week augured well for the
April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday, despite
concerns over below-average rainfall in the centre of the
country.
Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:00:00 +0000 London March cocoa expiry sees 120,120 tonnes tendered LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - A total of 120,120 tonnes of
cocoa was tendered against the ICE March London cocoa contract,
exchange data showed on Friday.
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:23:55 +0000 UPDATE 1-Kenya's Commercial Bank of Africa says shareholders accept NIC Group merger NAIROBI, March 15 (Reuters) - Kenya's Commercial Bank of
Africa said on Friday its shareholders had accepted a share swap
with NIC Group, paving the way for the first major
merger in the sector since interest rate caps were imposed in
2016.
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:29:01 +0000 Fall Armyworms Are Ravaging Crops in Many African Countries "They've finished eating the wild plants and are now going into the villages where there is more vegetation. They eat everything in their path. All plant life is at risk."
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West African French-speaking country -bordered by Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Gulf of Guinea -world's biggest producer of cacao -In 2009, the country's population was estimated at over 20 million.
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:42:15 GMT Teaching Children Regardless of Grade Educators in a remote valley in India devised a community approach to instructing students when teachers were sparse. It’s catching on.
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:52:45 GMT A Taste of Ivory Coast in Brooklyn Cheick Cisse, the owner of New Ivoire in Harlem, opened Paradis des Gouts hoping to share the food of his childhood with those outside his immigrant community.
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:34:55 GMT Women Finding Empowerment in ‘A World of Smoke’ In an impoverished port city in the Ivory Coast, women formed a cooperative to eke out a living making charcoal from the castoffs of sawmills and workshops.
