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Nigeria reopens 4 border posts with Benin, Cameroon and Niger
Nigeria opened key border posts with Cameroon, Benin and Niger on Wednesday. The Abuja authorities introduced this within the afternoon. Nigeria closed its borders in August 2019, formally to cease smuggling and encourage native manufacturing.
as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianIt was the International Minister who made this…
Facebook is dismantling three networks involved in involvement in Africa
Facebook announced on Tuesday that it had taken down three networks of fake accounts involved in mixed activities in Africa. These are two Russian networks and a French network. According to the social network, the people behind this French network are "close to the army" and acted in a coordinated way to influence the public.…
President Bah N’Daw’s latest words attack unions
While Malian Prime Minister Moctar Ouane tore his hair to find an agreement with the National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM), an exit from the interim president has put sand in the machine. Indeed, in front of his compatriots in Abidjan, Bah N'Daw this Monday, December 14, considered the strike inappropriate. The main trade union center in the country did not like it at all and hardened the tone.…
with the kidnapping of high school students in Kankara, the new expansion of Boko Haram
The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…
still in question, President Alpha Condé is calling for reconciliation
President Alpha Condé called on the Guineans for reconciliation and dialogue after more than a year of deadly protest, during his inaugural address on Tuesday, December 15, before an audience of African heads of state for a third term qualified as "d" shameful of his main opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo Alpha Condé, 82, begins a third period that is questioned by his opponents.…
much political controversy surrounding the reform of the Dakar Charter
Should the city of Dakar be suppressed - administratively - as a society? The Minister of Territorial Collectives threw a stone at the dam. According to Oumar Guèye, Dakar, like four other cities in the country - Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque and Thiès "has no reason to exist". In the perspective of the next local elections, an important step before the 2024 presidential election, the issue raises, very…
banned from presidential elections, Bozizé wants to unite the opposition to Touadéra
Former President François Bozizé says he "accepts" the annulment of his presidential candidacy by the Constitutional Court and calls on the leaders of the opposition coalition, COD 2020, of which he is the current president, to unite around a single candidacy to defeat outgoing President Faustin-Archange Touadera.
François Bozizé assures him in a press release released on Tuesday, December 15: he "unreservedly follows the ruling of the Constitutional Court", which annulled his candidacy in the forthcoming presidential…
Kouadio Konan Bertin was appointed Minister of Reconciliation
Alassane Ouattara's opponent in the presidential election in October last year, KKB alias Kouadio Konan Bertin, was appointed reconciliation minister on Tuesday, December 15. A ministry whose creation had been announced the day before by Alassane Ouattara during his oath for a third term as president of Côte d'Ivoire.
Announced by Alassane Ouattara during his tar edOn Monday, December 14, the Ministry of National Reconciliation will have seen the light of day the next day. And it was entrusted to KKB, Kouadio Konan…
mediation with jihadists and dozo hunters to stop the violence
Mediation has been going on for ten days in the Niono circle, where the village of Farabougou is located, surrounded by jihadist fighters since the beginning of October. Negotiations are taking place between all actors, including jihadists.
Three direct meetings with the jihadists have already been organized, in remote areas,…
Alpha Condé swore in front of Guineans and international representatives
Guinea's President Alpha Condé swore in high security on Tuesday, December 15, in Conakry, in the Mohammed V Palace, in the presence of a dozen African heads of state and representatives of France. ECOWAS or UN.
It is in the impressive Mohammed V Palace that the oath ceremony ofAlpha Condé took place in the presence of ten African heads of state and thousands of Guinean guests.
Among the heads of state present were the Ghanaian Nana Akufo-Addo, also the current president of ECOWAS, Idriss Déby from Chad, Denis…