Carrefour, the French retail giant, will start operating in Uganda in just over three months’ time. The group has just launched its advertising campaign, with posters announcing the opening of its first retail store in Kampala in January 2019.
The chief negotiator of the African, Caribbean and the Pacific countries has called for more imagination when looking to the future of EU-ACP relations. Robert Dussey is Togo's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration and Chief Negotiator of the ACP Group for the future of relations with the EU after the end of the Cotonou Agreement.
In Ghana, freight charges for shipping cocoa to Europe will fall from 39 pounds a tonne to 35 pounds during the 2018/2019 season. This decrease, announced by the Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA), is a form of compensation for the country, which lost nearly 2 billion Cedi's in the wake of the fall in world cocoa prices in 2017.
For engineer Henri Prévot and Central African Republic deputy Jean-Pierre Mara, writing a joint op-ed in Le Monde, France’s efforts to promote solar energy have more chance of success in Africa than at home. Contrary to popular belief, sub-Saharan Africa is electrifying fast.