young people angry at the tragedies of emigration

A march in honor of the victims of illegal emigration was organized on Saturday 21 November in Dakar by associations united in the collective "480", referring to the number of migrants who died at sea in one week at the end of October, according to the NGO emergency telephone. One hundred people marched in silence to urge authorities and citizens to respond.…

The Nigerian economy is entering a recession

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the fall in oil prices, Nigeria officially entered a recession, following a decline of 3.62% of GDP in the third quarter of 2020, following a decline of 6% in the previous quarter. Africa's most populous country barely recovered from the recession in 2016, following the collapse in oil prices in 2015.…

fifty years ago “Mar Verde”, the Portuguese attack on Conakry

On November 22, 1970, Guinea's fate almost changed. The declining Portuguese empire is in difficulty on its current Guinea-Bissau territory. Lisbon will try its best to organize a lightning attack outside its borders for the first time in its history and in the greatest secrecy. Objective: to overthrow the regime of Sékou Touré, the main supporter of the PAIGC's insurgency. The coup failed in part, but in 1971 triggered the greatest…

Fay, the odd lawyer from Ivory Coast

At the moment, on the Ivory Coast, a younger girl is making a splash on social networks. These, higher identified by the nickname "Fay, the offbeat lawyer", supply Web customers weekly coaching periods to make them conscious of the legislation. Termination of tenancy, inheritance rights, divorce and even infidelity or sexual impotence inside marriage ... They're a number of thousand to observe his…

Russia is preventing the UN from blacklisting the Libyan militia leader due to violations of rights

Russia on Friday stopped a UN Security Council committee from blacklisting a putschist general Khalifa Haftar-affiliated militia group and its leaders for human rights violations because they said they first wanted to see more evidence that they had killed civilians. The United States and Germany proposed that the Council of 15 members of the Libyan Sanctions Committee introduce a freezing and travel ban for the al-Kaniyat militia and its leader Mohammed al-Kani. Such a measure must be agreed by consensus, but Russia said…

In two months, Senegalese Edouard Mendy conquered Chelsea

Édouard Mendy was recruited at the end of September by Chelsea in Rennes and quickly won in the Blues cage. The goalkeeper continues the good performances and clean sheets (matches without conceding a goal) and banished the previous holder, Kepa Arrizabalaga, to the substitution bench. His coach, Frank Lampard, is completely happy with his Senegalese debut. Six years ago, Édouard Mendy vegetated at a national level in France, near Cherbourg. Today he is a member of one of the biggest clubs in Europe, is undefeated in…