Central Africa

A few days before the international break (March 22-31), several European clubs have announced that they will not let their African players play for the last two days of the CAN qualifier. A FIFA circular authorizes them to do so due to the health crisis. This situation worries and irritates the coaches. At the end of the…

Three years ago, the central government made these craft areas available to them. According to the Provincial Ministry of Mines, it is necessary before any exploitation to transform these sites into surface mines and proceed with the opening of roads to ensure the best working conditions for craft mines. Meanwhile, some impatient miners are engaged in anarchic exploitation of cobalt.…

A word uttered by Idriss Déby during his first campaign rally for the presidential election on April 11, Sunday at a stadium in Ndjamena, set fire to the powder. The opposition and civil society condemn a term in local Arabic that qualifies as "insulting" and cannot be properly translated according to them. The presidential camp is talking to him about a lawsuit about bad intentions.…

Completion of mission for an essential character from Bamako. After five years in Mali, Chadian Mahamat Saleh is leaving Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Mali. At the end of one last field visit he has just made in northern Mali, our correspondent went to Mali to meet him to take stock of his mission.…

In Congo-Brazzaville, the March 21 presidential election campaign has been in full swing since March 5. The meeting places arranged by the various candidates are crowded. Their activists almost no longer respect the barrier measures against coronavirus. Civil society is amazed and simply asks the authorities to refine all sectors that are still experiencing constraints.…

Parliamentary activities resume on Monday 15 March. The regular session in March is eagerly awaited in the country. It comes in the wake of political change and the overthrow of the majority. It is now the sacred union of the nation that replaces the FCC / Cach coalition. as reported from Kinshasa, Commander Muzembe…

In the Central African Republic, the closure of the capital's main supply corridor has significant consequences for households. The prices of imported products have risen a lot and some traders sometimes take advantage of this to make even more margins. A price variation closely followed by the Central African Institute for Statistics and Economic and Social Studies - ICASEES - supported by the World…

In the Central African Republic, a fraction of voters have been called to the polls since Sunday morning, March 14, for the second round of legislative elections. We also vote in constituencies where the first ballot on 27 December was canceled or prevented for security reasons. At noon on Sunday, no major incidents were reported, although Minusca confirms that the vote was blocked in some areas of the…

The Central African Republic voted in heavily guarded polling stations in the second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday after rebel violence misunderstood December's votes. Voting began smoothly with only minor delays over the capital Bangui, the electoral body said. Small rows of residents could be seen waiting to vote when a large number of police and gendarmerie stood by. "Things are going well in Bangui so far," The National Election Authority spokesman Theophile Momokoama said by…

The Human Rights NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW), condemns the violence perpetrated by separatists in the English-speaking zone of Cameroon in a report released on Friday 12 March. These separatists have mostly abandoned their ideological claims and have become criminals organized into several armed groups, the organization believes.…