Ivory Coast

Shareholders of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the parent company of the Ecobank Group, yesterday approved the payment of a dividend per share of $0.16 cents, the first dividend payment since 2016.

The leading pan-African bank with operations across 33 African countries held its 34th Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday in Abidjan, Côte d’ Ivoire.

Chairman, Ecobank Group, Alain Nkontchou said 2021 was a transformational year for the group, thus the decision of the board to reward shareholders with a dividend for the first time since 2016.

By Lewis S. Teh

Bomi County Senator and Chairman on Security, and governance at the ECOWAS Parliament, Edwin Melvin Snowe says the committee on security and governance and the regional parliament, in general, will not relent on naming and shaming any democratically elected government in the region that will go beyond two terms.

MONROVIA – Liberia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has taken a step to help the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC) mitigate possible future shortage of petroleum products on the market, hence entering into a bilateral cooperative agreement with neighboring Ivory Coast.

Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Kemayah signed the agreement on behalf of the Liberian government early this week with the Ivorian Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, Thomas Camara.

By Lewis S Teh

The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Health announces plans to start rapid Ebola testing of healthcare workers assigned at various land borders.

“We are going to begin testing people especially, health care workers, who are assigned at the Ivoirian borders for Ebola”, says the head for immunization at the Ministry of Health, Adolphus Clarke.

The vaccination against Ebola of high-risk populations began on Monday in Côte d’Ivoire following the discovery of an outbreak in the country three days ago. The swift response came after vaccines manufactured by Merck, which the World Health Organization (WHO) helped to secure to fight a four-month long outbreak in neighbouring Guinea, were quickly sent to the country. 

Health authorities in Ivory Coast have a case of the Ebola virus in the Cocoa-rich West African country, with the victim being an 18-year-old Guinean national.

In a statement issued by the Ivorian Government on Saturday, August 14, authorities at the Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and Universal Health Coverage said they were informed by the Pasteur Institute of Côte d’Ivoire, of a POSITIVE case of Virus Disease EBOLA after the examination of a sample taken on August 13, 2021, in the medical emergencies of the CHU of Cocody, on a young girl aged 18, of Guinean nationality.

ABIDJAN – Thirteen African Heads of State and governments concluded their one-day meeting in Abidjan today with a strong resolution to accelerate economic recovery from the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, scale-up investments in human capital, and increase their job creation efforts. They called for a robust twentieth replenishment of the World Bank Group’s International Development Association (IDA20) to support these efforts.

Inside QNet Pyramid Scam Scheme

By Yankuba Jallow

In what looks like a daylight robbery, Foroyaa’s four months investigation has found a global e-marketing group operating in The Gambia amassing wealth from Gambians, including innocent students.

Dubbed QNet, the company does this under the ploy that they organize “Business Management” with the promise to give the students what they refer to as “International Certificate”.

Johnson Bolatito’s Adire fabrics hung across the clothesline, swaying gently in the direction of the morning wind. Moments earlier at her cottage in Itoku area of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, she had arranged the fabrics carefully across the twine to form a mélange of colours suspended into the firmament like a rainbow.

By Mae Azango New Narratives & FPA Justice correspondent

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The Finnish court trying former Revolutionary United Front commander Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes allegedly committed in Liberia heard from a defense witness on Friday who had testified against former Liberian president Charles Taylor in the Special Court for Sierra Leone.