West Africa

In Côte d'Ivoire, a country of 25 million inhabitants, the numbering system has reached saturation point. The authorities have therefore provided for the automatic passage of telephone numbers. These drop from eight to ten digits on January 31st. Fifty million telephone numbers, mobile and landline, are affected by this technical operation. The plan was presented to the press by Bilé Diéméléou Gabriel, Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Côte d'Ivoire (ARTCI). According to him, the process…

The young artist is exhibiting at the end of 2020 at the ADA Art Gallery in Accra, Ghana. His paintings, powerful and committed, seek to condemn the exaggeration of SARS's controversial strength in Nigeria, but also the fate of a persecuted society: that of people with albinism. From our correspondent in Accra,Eniwaye Oluwaseyi…

This Sunday, December 27, the last election rally of the year 2020 will be held in West Africa. In fact, Nigerian voters are urged to go to the polls for the first round of presidential elections as well as for the legislative elections. Status with Wathi. Gilles Yabi: Yes, Niger is one of the Sahel countries that is the…

The forerunner of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the negritude movement, the American WEB Du Bois has dedicated his life to the fight against racism and to the defense of black culture. Her monumental work, which consists of sociological and historical essays, but also of fictions and autobiographical narratives close to prose poetry, strikes the astonishing modernity in the analyzes of the balance of power between races in the United…

In Mali, Transitional Minister Moctar Ouane will travel to Bandiagara this Saturday. He is to be accompanied by four ministers on this important journey to the center of the country. Bandiagara is the first city in the Dogon country, the Mopti region, an area where the presence of jihadist groups is more and more marked. Demonstrations also took place in Bandiagara earlier this week to protest…

In a few months, he joined the club with contemporary African artists with the best ratings. Amoako Boafo is Ghanaian, he is 36 years old and that is a bit of a revelation in 2020. His works inspired the last spring-summer 2021 collection of Dior Hommes, and he now follows his compatriot El Anatsui at auctions. One of his paintings sold for over $ 1 million this month at Christie's.…

No ceasefire on the occasion of the election campaign in Niger. While Nigerians are being called upon this Sunday, December 27, to elect their president and their deputies, jihadists are talking about them in the Lake Chad region and on the border with Mali. Rural political leaders make the issue of security one of their main themes.…

Soumaïla Cissé died on Friday, December 25, in Paris, where he was treated under contract with Covid-19. More than any other neighborhood in Bamako, Badalabougou is in mourning. The former leader of the opposition against Mali had established his family home there. It is also the headquarters of his party, the Union for Republic and Democracy (URD), that pays tribute to his memory. In Niafunké, the…

Its fine sandy beaches, lush forests and mangroves have made Casamance, the southern part of Senegal, one of the most attractive in the country for travelers. Since last March, however, tourists have left after the Covid-19 pandemic and the successive border closures. Surrounded by palm groves and postcard beaches, the seaside…

This Friday, December 25, is the last day of the campaign in Niger. The thirty candidates have until midnight to convince 7.5 million voters before the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday. The competing parties therefore organized the latest campaign events. With our Special Correspondent in Niamey, Magali…