West Africa

Academic and African media specialist Marie-Soleil Frère died on the night of 18 to 19 March. Research director, she taught journalism at the Free University of Brussels, as she did at the University of Ouagadougou. Author of several books, she focused in particular on the role of the media in the political development of French-speaking Africa.…

Since the first cases of Covid-19 appeared in the country in March 2020, young Burkinabè have transposed expressions linked to the pandemic into their daily lives. They had to develop a kind of resistance to a disease that had no vaccine and whose name alone sowed fear. Let us go to the discovery of these terms "covid", that is, linked to Covid-19.…

In Ghana, an English-speaking country in West Africa surrounded by French-speaking neighbors, the population speaks more than 80 languages. But among these, French practice remains marginal. as reported from Accra, Marine JeanninIn the Nima market, a popular district in the heart of the capital, people speak Hausa, Twi or…

In Chinguetti, Mauritania, an exhibition of photographs returns to the routes of African caravans. These camel rides have crossed the centuries as much as the deserts! Freight convoys are now being replaced by trucks. But an unexpected phenomenon, or rather an unexpected wealth, could well give them another life: the gold mines!…

The state of health ended at midnight on Friday. It concerned the Dakar and Thiès regions, which concentrate the majority of Covid-19 cases. A decision announced by President Macky Sall in his message to the nation on March 8 after days of demonstrations and violence that killed at least 10 people. The measure runs until Saturday, but is therefore not extended. At the same time, Senegal has just…

How to encourage young recruits from jihadist groups to regain civilian life? What is happening to former members of armed groups in northeastern Nigeria? How are they reintegrated into society? The International Crisis Group (ICG) is investigating the "Safe Corridor", a de-radicalization program implemented by the federal authorities since 2016 to find a social and non-military solution to combat the…

Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who died on March 10 in Germany, was buried in the family's privacy on Friday, March 19, in his town of Séguéla (North) at the end of a week of national mourning. Many of them took the trip From our special correspondent in Séguéla, Sidy YansanéThe courtyard of the Great Mosque of Séguéla…

Calm has returned to Senegal, but the crisis born of the March 3 arrest of opponent Ousmane Sonko has not yet been resolved. The tax is heavy: 10 dead according to a government source, 13 according to the opposition. One of the phenomena that marked the spirits these days with unprecedented demonstrations and riots is #FreeSenegal, a channel that allowed young people to express their anger, a real…

In Mali, the press mourns the night of journalist Adam Thiam that night. Collaborating with several media outlets, he had recently taken up the post of Director of Communications for the Presidency of the Republic. as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel"Sad news", "One of the most beautiful feathers in Mali" ... There are many…

Disappeared eight months after his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the Ivorian prime minister, was buried on Friday 19 March in Séguéla. It is in his hometown in the northwest Ivory Coast that Hamed Bakayoko's remains after Friday prayers in the mosque will be buried."Goodbye Hambak!" Morning fraternity, government newspaper on the front page, which in an archive photo, Hamed Bakayoko, hands joined, walks on the red carpet…