West Africa

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the fall in oil prices, Nigeria officially entered a recession, following a decline of 3.62% of GDP in the third quarter of 2020, following a decline of 6% in the previous quarter. Africa's most populous country barely recovered from the recession in 2016, following the collapse in oil prices in 2015.…

On November 22, 1970, Guinea's fate almost changed. The declining Portuguese empire is in difficulty on its current Guinea-Bissau territory. Lisbon will try its best to organize a lightning attack outside its borders for the first time in its history and in the greatest secrecy. Objective: to overthrow the regime of Sékou Touré, the main supporter of the PAIGC's insurgency. The coup failed in part, but in 1971 triggered the greatest…

Almost 6.5 million Burkinabè voters are known as to the polls this Sunday, November 22, for the primary spherical of presidential elections, a vote mixed with legislative elections. The 21,000 polling stations open from 06:00 to 18:00 A complete of 13 candidates for the presidential election and 10,000 for the deputy. These decisions happen in a context of uncertainty.…

At the moment, on the Ivory Coast, a younger girl is making a splash on social networks. These, higher identified by the nickname "Fay, the offbeat lawyer", supply Web customers weekly coaching periods to make them conscious of the legislation. Termination of tenancy, inheritance rights, divorce and even infidelity or sexual impotence inside marriage ... They're a number of thousand to observe his…

Ivorian football mourning day. On Saturday 21 November, Augustin Sidy Diallo was removed at the age of 61. He was infected with Covid-19.

On Sunday, Burkinabè will be called to the polls to elect both its new president and its new deputies. And even though there are only a few hours left before the ballot box opened, the capital Ouagadougou is keeping pace with recent preparations.

Édouard Mendy was recruited at the end of September by Chelsea in Rennes and quickly won in the Blues cage. The goalkeeper continues the good performances and clean sheets (matches without conceding a goal) and banished the previous holder, Kepa Arrizabalaga, to the substitution bench. His coach, Frank Lampard, is completely happy with his Senegalese debut. Six years ago, Édouard Mendy vegetated at a national level in France, near Cherbourg. Today he is a member of one of the biggest clubs in Europe, is undefeated in…

In Thiaroye, in a suburb of Dakar, fishermen returned from their voyage this week with pustules and pimples on their skin. The causes are not yet known, but the pollution trail is mainly advanced.

On Sunday, almost 6.5 million voters are called to the polls for a double legislative and presidential election in Burkina Faso. In a country where more than 40% of the population is between 18 and 30 years old, youth voting can be important in the election of the next president. Meeting with their student voters on one of the capital's largest campuses, Ouaga 1.…

In a large meditation, yesterday, Friday, November 20, several Togolese personalities including parliamentarians but also personalities from ECOWAS and parents met to pay their last respects to André Kouassi Johnson. Committed activist, the third Vice-President of the National Assembly, founding member of the Union of the Forces of Change died suddenly after a short illness on 14 November 2020. A giant portrait of André Kouassi Johnson has been placed on the catafalque erected on the National Assembly's main courtyard.…