West Africa

In Niger, the interior ministers, defense and humanitarian action went to the scene of the Tillia massacre on Thursday in the Tahoua region, in the north of the country. Several attacks have taken place in the last ten days in the region. All indications are that they would be implemented by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS). EIGS has largely expanded its grip on this part of the three…

The novelist Diary Sow participated on Thursday through a video conference in the "Exclusive Feminine Forum" organized by the French Institute in Saint-Louis. His "disappearance" in January 2021 had moved the whole country and aroused a very strong mobilization within the diaspora. When she returned, she had mentioned "an irreversible need to cut the bridges for a moment."…

Gabon's team qualified for the next African Cup of Nations (CAN 2021) thanks to a 3-0 victory against DR Congo on March 25, 2021 in Franceville. A result that eliminates the Congolese. Leopards will not be able to catch up in the Group D position for the Gambians, who also beat Angola 1-0 on Thursday. Gambia plays its first CAN in Cameroon.…

The Comoros football team qualified for the African Cup of Nations for the first time in its history on March 25, 2021. The Comoros won the points they needed by making it 0-0 against Togo, in Group G in the qualifiers for CAN 2021. The match between the Comoros and Togo does not go down in the annals of football, but it will…

In Senegal, local elections have been postponed again. This was registered in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday 25 March. The municipalities and departments should in principle be held before 28 March. This is the third launch and no new date has been set. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracIt was expected, so it's…

Authorities have arrested a man after he boarded an empty Mauritania Airlines plane that was on the tarmac at Nouakchott International Airport and threatened to set it on fire, the government agency reported on Thursday. There were no passengers on board at the time of the incident and it was not immediately clear how the man managed to break into airport security, according to an airport official who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to…

Trade unions are demanding pay rises, housing, generalization of the chalk bonus (teachers who give lessons in class) and remote allowances. More than 2,000 teachers and teachers responded to their unions' call to make their voices heard on the day the government held its weekly Council of Ministers meeting. The gathering of professors a few hundred meters from the presidential palace came on the third day of a strike that began on Monday to demand a pay rise. In the crowd, this union leader, a member of the Coordination…

The president of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum, Emmanuel Kasarherou, arrived in Cotonou on Wednesday, March 24, on a technical mission through March 28, to advance preparations on the Benin side for the return of the 26 works promised by Paris. Time is running out, as the French deputies have given Benin and Senegal a year to complete the process and restore that work. The French mission is purely technical. On the program, work sessions and site visits for Quai Branly's president. For his visit, Benin mobilized…

Provisional release was granted on Wednesday, March 24, to Guy Marius Sagna, Amadou Clédor Sène or Assane Diouf, activists arrested a month ago, in particular for "organizing a rebel movement". These releases come in connection with legal proceedings against Ousmane Sonko, the opponent accused of raping an employee of a massage parlor. With this deal, the opposition regained media. She is appealing for "unity" against President Macky Sal's regime. Concrete alliances or wishful thinking? .

Jumia, the African leader in e-commerce and Gozem, one of the leading startups in the urban transport niche, saw with relief the end of a difficult year 2020 for its activities in Africa. And to start over, these companies, both founded by young French people, have a recipe: innovation and investment. Founded in eleven African…