West Africa

Ghanaians will vote on Monday, December 7, for a double vote in the presidential election and legislation. Observers expect a duel between outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo and his predecessor and rival, John Mahama. This will be the first election since Jerry Rawling's death in November last year. From our Accra correspondent,It is a symbolic image a few days…

In Cameroon, regional elections will be held on Sunday. The big voters must nominate the 90 elected representatives for each of the ten regions, ie a total of 900 advisers. And one of the most important issues in this election is security. On Sunday morning, some major voters have already come to vote, reports our special…

The election campaigns for the presidential and legislative elections on December 27 are open in Niger. Thirty candidates are vying for the chairmanship and 359 for the 171 deputies. At the end of these elections, a democratically elected president will lead the torch to another civilian candidate, a first in Niger. with our…

On Monday, December 7, 17 million Ghanaian voters might be known as to the polls to elect their new president and their deputies. This English-speaking West African nation is among the many good college students in a area in full swing, a rumor that Monday's survey must be consolidated, Christopher Fomunyoh believes. He's the regional director with duty for Africa for the American NGO Nationwide Democratic Institute, which examines political rights and freedoms. He's current in Accra as a world observer and solutions…

Mali's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission organized its second public hearing in one year on Saturday 5 December at the Bamako International Conference Center. For a full day, survivors of massacres, murders, torture and inhuman treatment were interviewed. Full of life, Aicha Wallet Albessaty navigates between the two waiting rooms reserved for the victims. During the first years of independence, in 1963, a Tuareg uprising broke out in the Kidal region. An uprising from the Malian army. Aicha, 9 years old,…

The Nigerian authorities have intensified meetings and discussions following the massacre of at least 76 farmers of Boko Haram a week ago in the state of Borno, just twenty kilometers from the city of Maiduguri. The powerlessness of the Nigerian army in the face of the jihadist uprising raging in the north-east of the country has largely been highlighted.…

The regional elections will take place on Sunday, December 6, in Cameroon, but the population is not particularly worried about the vote. Especially because it is the big voters who are called to vote and not the general population, who rather think about organizing this year's celebration in a difficult economic context. With…

Colonel Malick Diaw, number two in the junta in Mali who ruled the country after the coup on August 18, was elected head of the National Transitional Council (CNT) on Saturday. This council, which has 121 seats and brings together political parties, representatives of civil society, trade unions and the military, met in Bamako for its inaugural session.…

Café Cacao Council launched an offensive earlier this week in opposition to two large chocolate makers, accusing them of failing to pay a particular premium supposed to higher pay cocoa-producing farmers. Hershey is claimed to have undertaken to pay this premium. That is a bonus, the First rate Revenue Distinction (DRD), which…

The aim of this pact: to keep away from violence within the elections through the vote on Monday, 7 December. This settlement comes after generally sizzling exchanges between the 2 long-standing opponents who thereby present their connection to democracy. With our particular correspondent in Accra, Christina okelloThey arrived…