West Africa

End on Saturday in Accra at the summit of heads of state and government in ECOWAS member countries. The situation in Mali occupied some of the debates. The meeting noted the progress made by the transitional authorities, but there is no doubt at the moment to repeal the repeal measure that has plagued Mali since the recent coup.…

The opposition and the majority discussed the security situation, national reconciliation and the organization of the next election. The three discussions failed to agree on the strategy to be implemented to limit attacks by armed groups. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya BoudaniBoth sides acknowledged that Burkina Faso is…

Guinea this time very quickly overcame the Ebola virus disease that reappeared in the southern part of the country in February last year. National health authorities quickly implemented the response with the support of the WHO and its partners and built on the expertise gathered in the fight against Ebola in the country between 2013 and 2016.…

According to our information, Almahmoud ag Baye, alias Ikarey, was neutralized on Tuesday, June 15, in a town southwest of Ménaka, in northeastern Mali. The French and Nigerian armies carried out several counter-terrorism operations last week in this Malian region bordering Niger. An offensive that also resulted in the arrest of four other EIGS executives.…

While Laurent Gbagbo returned to the Ivory Coast on Thursday, June 17, his former co-accused is still on hold. Charles Blé Goudé was acquitted of the same number of crimes against humanity on March 31 by the ICC, but still resides in the Netherlands. But he hopes to soon be able to set foot on Ivorian soil. Charles Blé Goudé…

The end of Guinea's second Ebola outbreak was officially announced on Saturday by the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak began on February 14. "I have the honor to declare the end of Ebola" in Guinea, said WHO official Alfred Ki-Zerbo at a ceremony in the southeastern Nzerekore region where the disease occurred in late January. It was the second such outbreak in the poor country of 13 million people since the devastating Ebola epidemic of 2013-2016 in West Africa, which left 11,300 dead in…

Will the new Malian transitional authorities respect the deadlines? Some doubt it. Parena, the party of Tiébilé Dramé, fears that the Prime Minister "is preparing the conditions for an extension of the transitional period". Originally, the military junta in power since the coup on 18 August 2020 had set the length of the…

In Burkina Faso, the legal soap opera between the Bolloré group and SopamSA - a company of Burkinabè businessman Mohamed Sogli - continues. The latter is suing the French group for damages incurred during the transport of an electricity group from France to Burkina Faso. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya BoudaniIn 2010, the…

Ten days after reviving these supraregional units, which have disappeared since 2014, he appointed RHDP barons, most of whom had resigned from the latest government, at the helm. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre PintoThe only woman named "Minister Governor", Hamed Bakayoko's former Minister of Culture, Raymonde Goudou Coffie, is…

On Saturday, Guinea will hold a ceremony in the Nzérékoré region. This is to celebrate the official end of the Ebola epidemic, 46 days after the second negative test of the last patient affected by the virus. The fee, 23 registered cases including 12 deaths and 11 recoveries, is much less heavy than during the previous epidemic…