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African culture: the June meetings
Where will the most important meetings in African culture take place in June in digital form or face to face? Here are 21 suggestions. Do not hesitate to send us your "essentials" to fipageculture@yahoo.fr.
From 1 to 6 June, the second edition of Wekré, the market for contemporary art in Ouagadougou, will be held under the theme Cross-country skiing. Among the…
Assimi Goïta received a delegation from Azawad in
Colonel Assimi Goïta, interim chairman, continues his talks in Bamako following his coup last week, condemned by the AU and ECOWAS, which repealed Mali. On Wednesday, Colonel Assimi Goïta received a delegation from the ex-insurgency who asked for promises before following the transition. Choguel Maïga, tipped for prime minister, attended the meeting…
In an interview with “Point”, the president
Abdelmajid Tebboune embarked on a lengthy interview published Thursday morning by the French newspaper Le Point. The Algerian president returned to business a few months ago after a long recovery in Germany. Questioned by Algerian historians and journalists Kamel Daoud and Adlène Meddi, President Tebboune returned to many questions from his presidency, especially Algeria's external relations with the…
Fashion “dad” in Africa, designer Pathé’O
If African fashion is currently having great success around the world, Pathé'O and all the young African designers they have supported in recent years point out that the road to this success has not always been easy.
From our correspondent in Abidjan,Hidden in one of hundreds of alleys in the working-class district of…
a white bac topic on homosexuality
An agent for National Education was fired after a controversy over a white bac topic on homosexuality. Last year students from the Academy of Rufisque, near Dakar, worked last week on a text by the American author Armistead Maupin, himself an LGBT rights activist. The choice of this topic has caused controversy in a country where homosexuality is oppressed. Homosexual rights activists are concerned…
African Union suspends Mali, threatens sanctions
The African Union (AU) announced that it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatening the poor country with sanctions after a second military coup in nine months.
The coup has raised deep concerns about stability in the volatile Sahel region and warnings of financial sanctions from the entire international community.
The AU "decides ... to immediately suspend the Republic of Mali from participating in all activities of the African Union, its bodies and institutions, until the normal…
The African Union interrupts Mali but does not
Following ECOWAS, the African Union decided to suspend Mali from its governing bodies. But the continental organization has not made any other decision to punish Mali's new leader as the country awaits the appointment of the new prime minister.
Soldiers must "go back to their barracks." The term had already been used after the…
In the spotlight: Mali is banished from institutions
In response to last week's coup, the African Union lifted Mali's membership yesterday, Tuesday 1 June, and threatened sanctions if a civilian-led government is not re-established.A sanction that complies with ECOWAS's points Mali Tribune. "The subregional organization did not go in the direction of financial sanctions announced by some observers. It was limited to political sanctions. That is, Assimi Goïta will remain…
John Numbi officially declared a deserter
The relatives of Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana celebrated on Tuesday, June 1, the 11th anniversary of the murder of the two human rights activists after the police call. The next day, June 2, the body of the former body was found; the other has not been until today. Following revelations on our antenna, the organization Voice of the Voiceless submitted a memorandum to the Presidency of the…
The Ivorian government says it has not been
According to the spokesman for the Ivory Coast Government, Amadou Coulibaly, the date of 17 June presented by FPI-GOR on the return of former President Laurent Gbagbo to the country has not been the subject of a "consent election". It would not have been communicated to the authorities by Laurent Gbagbo's entourage.
as reported…