On Saturday 7 July a story about SoilCares technology was mentioned on Dutch national TV. The news item followed the story of Matthew Kago who provides soil testing services in Kenya with SoilCares Scanner.

The absolute hero of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde and a leading historical Pan-African figure, Amílcar Cabral, was named by his father after the Carthaginian General Hamilcar Barca, the one that in 241 B.C. conquered Sicily before occupying most of Iberia. He was born in what is a today’s Libya and was one of the most-admired leaders of that state that sat in what is today’s Tunisia.

The Federal Republic of Germany and Cameroon on Tuesday signed two intergovernmental cooperation agreements in the capital of Cameroon, worth a total of €13.6 million (about 8.84 billion CFA francs), aimed to modernise the civil registry and support decentralisation.

On 21 June, Bakary Sylla – Chief of Staff at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance – representing the Minister, actively took part in the Paris Forum. A total of 46 lending and borrowing countries, as well as nine international financial institutions and international organisations met in Paris at the French Finance Ministry to discuss new trends in the sovereign debt landscape, in particular the high debt levels of certain developing countries, in a context marked by growing vulnerabilities linked to the rise and make-up of debt in these countries.

The African Union has appointed Carlos Lopes, a member of President Paul Kagame's dream team in reforming the continental body and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, as the high representative for the post-2020 negotiations with the European Union.