North Africa

The tribute is unanimous this morning within the press on the continent. Whether or not within the North African or West African press, most newspapers, magazines or information websites greet the reminiscence of Béchir Ben Yahmed, founding father of Jeune Afrique."It was yesterday, Could 3, a day devoted to press freedom, that Béchir Ben Yahmed selected to offer us a false firm," states WalfQuotidien in Dakar. The founding…

The founding father of the newspaper Jeune Afrique, Béchir Ben Yahmed, has handed away. He died on Monday morning, Might 3, in Paris on the age of 93. He had been in hospital because the finish of March, after receiving Covid-19. Franco-Tunisian Béchir Ben Yahmed had based the journal, which was to grow to be "YES" in 1960, the yr of many African independence.…

Minni Minnawi, a former insurgent chief of the Sudan Liberation Military (SLA), was appointed governor of Darfur on Sunday (Might 2) by the Sudanese Prime Minister. He shall be the very best authorities official within the province nonetheless torn aside by violence. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethThe alternative…

The French translation of the well-known essay by the Congolese thinker and writer Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, revealed in English in 1988, is lastly launched by Présence africaine. An occasion e-book, initiated by the historian Mamadou Diouf, which tells his story. The invention of Africa, a basic of postcolonial considering,…

Tunisia is urging the IMF to face the "wall" of debt. Its finance minister is in Washington this week to start discussions with the fund in an explosive well being and social context. In Tunisia, the vaccination marketing campaign remains to be in its infancy and hospitals are overwhelmed by the dearth of oxygen. However the…

In Chad, the African Union delegation continues its consultations on the transition course of. It has now been 4 days since AU's envoys have been in Ndjamena to satisfy the brand new authorities on website. The delegation is led by two males: Nigerian Bankole Adeoy and Djiboutian Ambassador Mohamed Idriss Farah, PSC President. The latter solutions questions from our particular envoys to Ndjamena,…

This is very the case in North Africa. In Algeria and Morocco, press freedom continues to be hampered, whereas in Libya it is amazingly troublesome to follow the occupation. Convictions of journalists, blockages of on-line media, adoption of legal guidelines to prohibit freedom of knowledge ... Algeria is within the eyes of…

The joint efforts of the Turkish navy and the Libyan coast guard rescued at the very least 123 irregular migrants outdoors the Libyan capital Tripoli, navy sources stated on Sunday. Throughout a mission north of Libya, the Turkish naval ship TCG Gaziantep acquired a demand assist from an inflatable boat transporting the irregular migrants virtually 129 kilometers from Tripoli on Thursday. After the Turkish mission group command supplied the essential data in regards to the boat to native authorities,…

Eric Rabesandratana, former PSG defender (1997-2001), was entrusted with the number of Madagascar for the qualifiers for the World Cup 2022 in June subsequent yr, as an alternative of Nicolas Dupuis, formally suspended from his duties. The previous Paris membership defender (1997-2001) has been appointed interim supervisor as…

Regardless of the repression, a number of thousand Hirak protesters marched in Algeria on Friday, April 30, throughout the nation. This protest motion, born in 2019 from the rejection of Abdelaziz Bouteflika's fifth time period, had been suspended for a 12 months as a consequence of the Covid-19 epidemic. Protests resumed in late February.…