West Africa

51 workers of Socotra, certainly one of the biggest freight transport firms in Côte d'Ivoire, have simply been laid off, or 20% of the corporate's workers (which has a whole of 251 workers). At the tip of March, the employees demanded the best to kind a commerce union inside the firm. They declare to have been rejected, main them to file a strike discover. The administration, which confirms these…

One third of Ghana's inhabitants is obese and one in ten Ghanaians is obese. By way of a wealthy food plan and sedentarization of life in city areas. Our correspondent in Accra,From the top of the morning, the streets of Accra are stuffed with the scent of the dishes we cook dinner: fried fish in stalls, sautéed plantain…

A professional-Gbagbo FPI delegation led by Assoa Adou was acquired on Monday by Inside and Safety Minister Vagondo Diomandé. A brand new assembly was supposed to organize the procedures for Laurent Gbagbo's return to Côte d'Ivoire. A return for which we nonetheless have no idea the date. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre…

On his new album Djourou, the grasp Ballaké Sissoko invitations lots of company: Vincent Segal, Patrick Messina, Oxmo Puccino, Camille, Piers Faccini, Arthur Teboul, Salif Keita ... Sufficient to open up new horizons, give different colours in his choir , to discover new worlds. To start with, the grasp of the choir Ballaké Sissoko opens his file with Demba Kunda, a protracted solitary meditation on his instrument, a delicate deviation, virtuoso, with necessary notes, of which he alone has the key.…

Subsequently, with a view to assist exporters deal with new financial institution prices linked to the "First rate Earnings Distinction" (DRD), the Espresso-Cocoa Council offered a part of this quantity to exporters, such as CFA 10 billion (EUR 16 million). DRD, which is such as $ 400 per tonne of beans, has been round since final yr and has raised 510 billion CFA francs (greater than 777 million euros).…

Sadly, we're dealing with a brand new illustration of a coverage that, in truth, goals to take away each opposition and each discordant voice in Benin. Sadly, this has penalties as a result of the particular person we're defending is in an especially fragile state, remoted, with out the potential for having a honest trial. And there's a sense that President Talon is sweeping the rule of regulation with worrying ease. It is clearly as much as him to repair the process, to repair the destiny of 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,…

In Burkina Faso, many circumstances of gender-based violence have been reported because the launch of a toll-free situation in March 2021 by the Ministry answerable for ladies. The hospital acquired greater than 425 calls and about 30 victims had been taken to a middle for acts of violence. For the Ministry of Household Affairs, the objective of this name middle is to cut back circumstances of…

In Mauritania, the marches initially deliberate for Might 1 have been canceled resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. In return: press conferences and parades. Commerce union leaders condemned a deterioration in employees' residing circumstances. Deterioration of employees' state of affairs, improve in the costs of primary…

On Thursday and Friday, the restoration work was held on the executive reorganization undertaking in Bamako and within the areas. Representatives of civil society, municipal and conventional authorities have been current. This very delicate reform is offered for within the Algiers Settlement, which led to 2015 for the battle in northern Mali. On Friday, April 30, a departmental undertaking that creates…