Magic System, a national musical treasure from Ivory Coast fully represented on Saturday, October 11th 2008 at the Apollo theater in Harlem, NY. If the musical group, Magic System doesn’t ring a bell, I am sure the song, premier gaou will definitely set bells a ringing. The resounding success of this song in 1999, led [...]

Los Angeles (August 20, 2008) – Many news stories worldwide are reporting that movies from the United States are not being represented at the upcoming Venice Film Festival due to the writer’s strike. One movie from American film maker Ramin Bahrani is making its debut at the Venice Film Festival.
“Goodbye Solo” is the anticipated [...]

The government, which has been subsidising fuel prices for the past three years, removed these subsidies on 6 July because it could no longer afford to keep them in place. As a result the price of a litre of fuel rose by 29 percent in 24 hours, and the price of diesel by 44 percent.

By John Liebhardt, Burkina Faso: My friend Ahmed left today for Abidjan. He is from Burkina Faso, so it’s not world-breaking news. Before Cote d’Ivoire’s ethnic troubles became entangled into a civil war, somewhere around 2 million Burkinabé had lived and worked in the country.
You could say that Ahmed’s decision to [...]

African Cup of Nations, Ghana, Accra 2008: The ongoing African Cup of Nations enters the semi-finals stage on Thursday: Ghana v Cameroon, Semi-Final, 17:00 GMT; and Ivory Coast v Egypt, Semi-Final, 20:30 GMT.
These matches promise to be exciting and explosive encounters. The teams have demonstrated their staying power, will, and soccer mastery, but at [...]

It was not too hard trying to contrast the violence in Kenya with the jubilation over the “beautiful game.” Whatever the case may be, it is a real shame about Kenya, plus the fact that it was not even able to enjoy solace from football by being participants in the CAN2008

TradeNet is an online portal set up for traders and producers to “access prices for specific commodities and markets throughout West Africa”. The portal also permits SMS messaging ; users can receive alerts on prices and commodities and access “market conditions” via their cellphones.
TradeNet is conceived under the MISTOWA project which aims to increase [...]