West Africa

The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…

President Alpha Condé called on the Guineans for reconciliation and dialogue after more than a year of deadly protest, during his inaugural address on Tuesday, December 15, before an audience of African heads of state for a third term qualified as "d" shameful of his main opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo Alpha Condé, 82, begins a third period that is questioned by his opponents.…

Should the city of Dakar be suppressed - administratively - as a society? The Minister of Territorial Collectives threw a stone at the dam. According to Oumar Guèye, Dakar, like four other cities in the country - Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque and Thiès "has no reason to exist". In the perspective of the next local elections, an important step before the 2024 presidential election, the issue raises, very…

Former President François Bozizé says he "accepts" the annulment of his presidential candidacy by the Constitutional Court and calls on the leaders of the opposition coalition, COD 2020, of which he is the current president, to unite around a single candidacy to defeat outgoing President Faustin-Archange Touadera. François Bozizé assures him in a press release released on Tuesday, December 15: he "unreservedly follows the ruling of the Constitutional Court", which annulled his candidacy in the forthcoming presidential…

Alassane Ouattara's opponent in the presidential election in October last year, KKB alias Kouadio Konan Bertin, was appointed reconciliation minister on Tuesday, December 15. A ministry whose creation had been announced the day before by Alassane Ouattara during his oath for a third term as president of Côte d'Ivoire. Announced by Alassane Ouattara during his tar edOn Monday, December 14, the Ministry of National Reconciliation will have seen the light of day the next day. And it was entrusted to KKB, Kouadio Konan…

Mediation has been going on for ten days in the Niono circle, where the village of Farabougou is located, surrounded by jihadist fighters since the beginning of October. Negotiations are taking place between all actors, including jihadists. Three direct meetings with the jihadists have already been organized, in remote areas,…

Guinea's President Alpha Condé swore in high security on Tuesday, December 15, in Conakry, in the Mohammed V Palace, in the presence of a dozen African heads of state and representatives of France. ECOWAS or UN. It is in the impressive Mohammed V Palace that the oath ceremony ofAlpha Condé took place in the presence of ten African heads of state and thousands of Guinean guests. Among the heads of state present were the Ghanaian Nana Akufo-Addo, also the current president of ECOWAS, Idriss Déby from Chad, Denis…

Rival French and Russian disinformation campaigns have tried to deceive and influence Internet users in the Central African Republic ahead of an election later this month, Facebook said on Tuesday. Facebook said it was the first time it had seen foreign influence operations directly engage on its platforms, with fake accounts condemning each other as "fake news". The company said it had suspended three networks of a total of 500 accounts and sites for so-called "coordinated unauthentic behavior." One…

The Boko Haram group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of students in an attack on a boys' school in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina, media reported on Tuesday. More than 330 students are missing from Government Science Secondary School in Kankara after gunmen attacked their school on Friday night, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forests. The Daily Nigerian said on Tuesday that it had received an audio message from Boko Haram leader…

During the night from Friday to Saturday, several hundred high school students from their boarding school in Kankara were kidnapped by one hundred armed men on motorcycles. This attack, which took place in the state of Katsina in the northwestern part of the country, was first attributed to the "bandits" who usually operate in this area. The allegation of this attack by Abubakar Shekau, which was broadcast on Tuesday morning, December 15, in a voice message marks a turning point in the jihadist group's expansion.…