West Africa

Disappeared eight months after his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the Ivorian prime minister, was buried on Friday 19 March in Séguéla. It is in his hometown in the northwest Ivory Coast that Hamed Bakayoko's remains after Friday prayers in the mosque will be buried."Goodbye Hambak!" Morning fraternity, government newspaper on the front page, which in an archive photo, Hamed Bakayoko, hands joined, walks on the red carpet…

Lawyers for former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz condemned Thursday night at a news conference in Nouakchott what they consider to be a violation of their client's constitutional rights. as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour SalemThe lawyers, who held their first press conference since the indictment of the…

The conditions for the master's exam have not changed, contrary to rumors that have led some students to demonstrate in the capital. The Ministers responsible for National and Higher Education clarified matters on Thursday 18 March in Ouagadougou. as reported from Ouagadougou, Pedestrian BoudaniFollowing the creation of the new…

A high-level ministerial mission went to the scene of the Banibangou attack on Thursday 18 March in Tillabéry in the western part of the country. On Monday, gunmen killed 58 villagers returning from a trade show. The Minister of the Interior, Alkashe Allada, accompanied among others by the Minister of Humanitarian Action and…

The lawyers for the opponents of the UFDG accused of "manufacturing and possessing weapons of war and attacks on the fundamental interests of the nation", this week seized the ECOWAS court. The lawyers for the detained members of the Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea are asking this sub-regional court to rule on a procedure…

One week after the start of the April 11 presidential election campaign, out of 10 official candidacies called by the Supreme Court, three opponents who have announced their withdrawal from the electoral process are fighting, a fourth opponent Brice Mbaïmon Guedmbaye suspended. his participation in the campaign by condemning a system that also favors presidential candidate Idriss Deby. There are…

Mohamed Ould Matali, an influential figure in the Nordic region, was appointed special adviser to the president of CNT, the body that plays the role of legislator, during the transition in Mali after the coup last month in August last week. However, Mohamed Ould Matali is under UN sanctions because of his alleged links to organized crime in northern Mali, which he has always denied.…

Adji Sarr, who accuses Ousmane Sonko of rape, spoke Wednesday night, March 17, in front of some select media. The young woman, who worked in a massage parlor in Dakar, publicly confirms that the Senegalese opponent would have forced her into repeated intercourse. Ousmane Sonko was indicted and placed under judicial supervision in this case. A case that was the trigger for violent protests in the…

Officially, Tanzania's President John Maguful has died of heart problems. This was announced by the Vice President on television on Wednesday, March 17, after more than two weeks of unresolved absence from the head of state."Easily re-elected in October last year for another term with 84% of the vote, John Magufuli, 61, appeared for the last time in public on February 27 and points to World Africa, there were persistent…

On Monday evening, March 15, 58 villagers returning from a massacre were shot by gunmen in Niger. On Wednesday, the head of state, Mahamadou Issoufou, chaired an extraordinary Security Council. The increase of military personnel in Tillabéry and the dispatch of a high-level ministerial mission on the ground have been decided. Emotions run high in the streets of the capital Niamey.…