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What’s the AU report rejected by the Somali authorities?
What is the AU report rejected by the Somali government? MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's federal government has rejected the African Union's proposals on the future of the AMISOM team, which has lobbied for stability in the country in addition to helping Somalia crush militants d 'Al-Shabaab. AMISOM is tentatively set to leave Somalia after full implementation of Somali Transition Plan end of…
Cameroonian “anti-sardines” demonstrate in
A demonstration was held in Geneva on Saturday, July 17, near the hotel where the Cameroonian president has been staying for a week. Security forces were deployed to prevent access to the hotel where Paul Biya lived. The now famous BAS, an anti-sardine brigade, despite the ban by the Geneva Department of Population Security and Health, continued the demonstration.…
the ten least peaceful countries in the world
The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…
Ethiopia targets international media in Tigray battle
Ethiopia targets foreign media in Tigray conflict NAIROBI, Kenya - The Ethiopian government has now turned its attention to foreign media, which it accuses of spreading hatred and disinformation, amid the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region, where the federal army has carried out an operation targeting the Popular Front. Liberation of Tigray. . Media regulators have accused anonymous foreign…
residents called for elections
We are voting this Sunday, July 18, in Sao Tome and Principe, a small African archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, near the equator. Santoméer is called to the election to elect his new president. A first round without illusion against the background of a pandemic and marked by foreign debt. Nineteen candidates are on the starting line, but not the incumbent Evaristo Carvalho, who is not running again.…
Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the footsteps of Sankara and
This Sunday, July 18, Jean-Luc Mélenchon begins a 4-day visit to Burkina Faso. France's insubordinate presidential candidate therefore intends to improve its position on the African continent. And the choice to go to Ouagadougou, the site of Emmanuel Macron's call for new relations between France and Africa, is of course not innocent.…
Tigrayans in Ethiopian capital worry for security after crackdown
NAIROBI, Kenya - Hundreds of Tigrayans have reportedly been detained in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, amid the conflict between the Tigrayan defense forces. and the federal government takes on a new dimension, probably at increasing levels. In a detailed report released by Reuters, police have been on the run, targeting innocent Tigray civilians, since the Ethiopian National Defense Forces lost Mekelle, the regional administrative capital of Tigray. The detentions in the Ethiopian capital are the third wave…
of construction companies targeted
Malia's armed forces announced late Saturday night the kidnapping of three Chinese citizens and two Mauritanians working for construction companies on Malia's border with Mauritania. as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel The company consortium is responsible for paving roads and building bridges in Malian region Nara, located…
F. Gassmann: “a world championship in biking
► The book African cycling is published in Amalthée…
produce high quality antigen samples and
Senegal is facing a soaring Covid-19 case on Saturday 17 July, the positivity of those tested rises to more than 35% ... ahead of the major Muslim festival Tabaski, the Ministry of Health made several recommendations, especially to speed up the vaccination campaign and strengthen the screening system. Senegal, with a population…