Central Africa

In the Central African Republic, a fraction of voters have been called to the polls since Sunday morning, March 14, for the second round of legislative elections. We also vote in constituencies where the first ballot on 27 December was canceled or prevented for security reasons. At noon on Sunday, no major incidents were reported, although Minusca confirms that the vote was blocked in some areas of the…

The Central African Republic voted in heavily guarded polling stations in the second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday after rebel violence misunderstood December's votes. Voting began smoothly with only minor delays over the capital Bangui, the electoral body said. Small rows of residents could be seen waiting to vote when a large number of police and gendarmerie stood by. "Things are going well in Bangui so far," The National Election Authority spokesman Theophile Momokoama said by…

The Human Rights NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW), condemns the violence perpetrated by separatists in the English-speaking zone of Cameroon in a report released on Friday 12 March. These separatists have mostly abandoned their ideological claims and have become criminals organized into several armed groups, the organization believes.…

Idriss Déby Itno held a big meeting on Saturday 13 March in the main stadium in the capital. In front of a conquered public, the outgoing head of state, who had secured his victory in the first round, renewed promises to develop Chad. as reported from Ndjamena, Madjiasra nakoIt is from a platform located in the middle of the…

Terré in his stronghold of Pool, a region devastated between 2016 and 2017 by a civil war that ended thanks to a peace deal, former rebel leader Frédéric Bintsamou, "alias" pastor Ntumi, set up a media contact on Saturday, March 13, 2021, in the city of Mounkala, where he spoke about the March 21 presidential election in Congo-Brazzaville. He gave no voting instructions. The President of the National…

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) received 1.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine a week ago as part of the Covax program. However, the country has decided to postpone the "sinus die" start of its vaccination campaign, which was to start on Monday 15 March. This is a "precautionary measure" that several countries,…

How to improve diversity and representativeness on Wikipedia? While the collaborative encyclopedia lacks articles on African and Afro-descendant personalities, collectives and communities are formed by volunteers to recruit contributors determined to change things. Pseudonyms appear one after the other on the black background…

Véron Mosengo-Omba, Director of the FIFA Members' Association Division, replaces Moroccan Abdelmounaïm Bah as Head of Administration (Secretary-General) of the African Football Confederation (CAF). Patrice Motsepe, the new president of the CAF, has also elected his five vice-presidents: Senegalese Augustin Senghor (1st), Mauretanian Ahmed Yahya (2nd), Djiboutian Suleïman Waberi (3rd), Cameroonian Seydou…

In the Central African Republic, 118 constituencies are called to vote in the legislative elections on Sunday 14 March. This is the second round for 49 constituencies. The 69 other constituencies will vote again because they were prevented or the vote was canceled during the first round on 27 December. It is therefore the last straight line before this important election. The observers of the…

That was four years ago; on March 12, 2017, in the Democratic Republic of the Conto (DRC) Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, two UN experts investigating the violence in Kasai-Central, were assassinated. A few months later, a lawsuit was opened to determine the causes and those responsible for these killings, but since then the procedure has progressed in slow motion and is spiced with irregularities,…