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Facebook Inc said it would launch a satellite in partnership with France's Eutelsat Communications to bring Internet access to large parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The satellite, part of Facebook's Internet.org platform to expand internet access mainly via mobile phones, is under construction and will be launched in 2016, the companies said on Monday. (on.fb.me/1JPiTZC) The satellite, called AMOS-6, will cover large parts of West, East and Southern Africa, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. "To connect people living in remote regions, traditional connectivity infrastructure is often difficult and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies," Zuckerberg said.
The Internet.org platform offers free access to pared-down web services, focused on job listings, agricultural information, healthcare and education, as well as Facebook's own social network and messaging services. Growth in the number of people with access to the Internet is slowing, and more than half the world's population is still offline, the United Nations Broadband Commission said last month. Facebook has nearly 20 million users in major African markets Nigeria and Kenya, statistics released by it showed last month, with a majority using mobile devices to access their profiles. The company opened its first African office in Johannesburg in June. Tech news website The Information reported in June that Facebook had abandoned plans to build a satellite to provide Internet service to continents such as Africa.
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Interim president of the Association of Business Women in Cameroon (GFAC) and senator of the ruling party RDPC, Agnès Ntube Ndode has secured her position in the association after the recent election which was held in Yaoundé on 29 September 2015.
Agnès Ntube Ndode who headed the GFAC’s branch in the South-Western region for 24 years and was vice-president of the organization for 7 years, officially replaces the previous president and symbolic figure of this association, Françoise Foning, who passed away few months ago.
Elected for a term of two years, renewable once, GFAC’s new president who presents herself as a protégé of her predecessor, is tasked to bolster women’s position in the Cameroonian business world, which by the way faces many challenges, the difficult access to funding being the most important.
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A 400 million FCFA check was just awarded to about 5,000 producers of certified cocoa from Cameroon’s South-western region as premium for the last production season.
This check was offered by Telcar Cocoa, Cargill’s local dealer, who launched in 2011 a mentoring and training program for Cameroon’s producers of certified cocoa. More than 10, 800 producers have been trained since the program began. Out of these, more than 5, 000 were certified.
According to Cameroon’s Minister for Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, who presided the awarding ceremony held in Kumba on 23 September 2015, Telcar Cocoa’s initiative, which was sponsored by the international firm Cargill, led to a decrease in the proportion of inappropriately roasted cocoa beans from 80 15%, especially in the Southwest, Cameroon’s production basin where harvest is generally done during the raining season thus explaining the oven-drying of harvested beans.
Let us recall that 10, 000 tons of certified cocoa were produced during Cameroon’s 2014-2015 cocoa season against 5, 400 tons for the previous season. Moreover, Telcar, Cameroon’s certified cocoa market leader, alongside Sis Cacaos, and AMS, Barry Callebault’s and Theobroma’s respective subsidiaries, invested themselves in the production of certified cocoa during the 2014-2015 season.
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Finance Ministers, the central bank governors and the presidents of the regional institutions of the Franc Zone met on Friday, October 2, 2015 in Bercy- Paris under the direct supervision of Michel Sapin, French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts. The meeting came within the framework of the second bi-annual forum of finance ministers of the Franc zone in the French capital. The first was held in Bamako, Mali, in April 2015. The Paris meeting had on its agenda the examination of all monetary agreements between France and the countries of the Franc Zone, the integration of capital markets in the Franc Zone and the internationalization of finance surveillance as a main counter terrorism response.
Asked about the possibility for African countries to renegotiate the terms of the monetary cooperation agreement linking the countries of the Franc zone and France, Michel Sapin said that: "This is a debate that has existed ever since the creation of the CFA zone. What I can say from the French side is that we are in a space that is a desire shared space. It is a space where everyone is respected, where everyone can suggest a number of solutions. The franc zone is not a static area; it is not a historical area. This is an area that is dynamic. If there is on the part of each other in academic or political proposals, well, we will discuss together with the spirit of respect and equality.”
When asked whether the African countries of the Franc zone can effectively use the three thousand billion Euros of African money held in the French treasury. The French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts replied: "Yes, that is a question that is often asked. These reserves are essential for African countries to be able perform international business based on changes from day to day or month to month, to meet a particular need, for example pay for imports outside. So this is not confiscated money, not money set aside. This is money that can be mobilized at any time to meet the needs of African economies."
Cameroon was represented in this meeting by Alamine Ousmane Mey, Minister of Finance and also President of the Ministerial Committee for the Monetary Union of Central Africa. The franc zone also comprises France and 15 African countries. Eight of them make up the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Six others are the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC): Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.
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Interim president of the Association of Business Women in Cameroon (GFAC) and senator of the ruling party RDPC, Agnès Ntube Ndode has secured her position in the association after the recent election which was held in Yaoundé on 29 September 2015.
Agnès Ntube Ndode who headed the GFAC’s branch in the South-Western region for 24 years and was vice-president of the organization for 7 years, officially replaces the previous president and symbolic figure of this association, Françoise Foning, who passed away few months ago.
Elected for a term of two years, renewable once, GFAC’s new president who presents herself as a protégé of her predecessor, is tasked to bolster women’s position in the Cameroonian business world, which by the way faces many challenges, the difficult access to funding being the most important.
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A 400 million FCFA check was just awarded to about 5,000 producers of certified cocoa from Cameroon’s South-western region as premium for the last production season.
This check was offered by Telcar Cocoa, Cargill’s local dealer, who launched in 2011 a mentoring and training program for Cameroon’s producers of certified cocoa. More than 10, 800 producers have been trained since the program began. Out of these, more than 5, 000 were certified.
According to Cameroon’s Minister for Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, who presided the awarding ceremony held in Kumba on 23 September 2015, Telcar Cocoa’s initiative, which was sponsored by the international firm Cargill, led to a decrease in the proportion of inappropriately roasted cocoa beans from 80 15%, especially in the Southwest, Cameroon’s production basin where harvest is generally done during the raining season thus explaining the oven-drying of harvested beans.
Let us recall that 10, 000 tons of certified cocoa were produced during Cameroon’s 2014-2015 cocoa season against 5, 400 tons for the previous season. Moreover, Telcar, Cameroon’s certified cocoa market leader, alongside Sis Cacaos, and AMS, Barry Callebault’s and Theobroma’s respective subsidiaries, invested themselves in the production of certified cocoa during the 2014-2015 season.
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