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the meeting place for civic action “in the face of the autocratic press” in Africa

In Senegal, it is the end of the popular university for civic engagement, a major meeting with the "Afrikki" platform, which brings together militant civic movements from the continent and the diasporas. Their activists met virtually face-to-face at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar to discuss "civic action in the face of the autocratic press" in Africa.…

President Bah N’Daw’s latest words attack unions

While Malian Prime Minister Moctar Ouane tore his hair to find an agreement with the National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM), an exit from the interim president has put sand in the machine. Indeed, in front of his compatriots in Abidjan, Bah N'Daw this Monday, December 14, considered the strike inappropriate. The main trade union center in the country did not like it at all and hardened the tone.…

with the kidnapping of high school students in Kankara, the new expansion of Boko Haram

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,…

still in question, President Alpha Condé is calling for reconciliation

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.…