West Africa

Still no news of high school students being kidnapped from their school on the night of Thursday the 10th until Friday the 11th in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered all his security services to prioritize this issue. One of the president's spokesmen, Shehu Garba, claims that the perpetrators of this mass kidnapping were in a forest in the state…

Too many traffic jams, too expensive rents, inaccessible coastline ... These are some of the residents of Dakar. How can the quality of life of the people of Dakar be improved? This is the theme of a virtual exhibition, "Living in Dakar", which is aimed at residents and also those involved in urban planning. A project led by two architects, with Goethe Institut.…

An armed group has kidnapped almost 400 male college students from a boarding faculty in northern Nigeria, native media reported on Saturday. The assault on the highschool happened within the morning within the city of Kankara within the northwestern province of Katsina alongside the Niger border. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the assault in his house nation, saying safety forces had found the armed group hiding within the forest and an operation had been launched. Katsina State Police…

On Saturday evening, December 12, a big concert was held in Abidjan to celebrate the thirty years of zouglou, Ivorian popular music called "philosophical" and "political", a statement music that was also put in the spotlight. , once is not customary, in the silent universe of the Palais des congrès. as reported from Abidjan,…

General François Lecointre returned on Saturday from a two-day inspection visit to Niger and Mali, his seventh visit to the Barkhane Force's Operational Theater. In Hombori, in the Malian Gourma Desert, the Chief of Defense went to meet French soldiers and their partners from the Malian Armed Forces. .

Twenty-eight councils of lawyers will be sent out from Monday, December 14, throughout the Kayes region to raise awareness and inform the population about slavery by descent. An initiative from the Emifo project, a comprehensive action program against slavery and forced migration in Kayes that organized the training. Fofana…

Within the state of Benue, within the central japanese a part of the nation, virtually 50,000 internally displaced individuals are pressured into crowded camps across the metropolis of Makurdi. The variety of victims of recurring conflicts between shepherds and peasants is definitely a lot greater on this area, which concentrates the biggest variety of displaced individuals after the Borno state, within…

The UN is closing its offices while the fate of a former prime minister who fled to its premises has still not been resolved. Aristides Gomes fled to the UN Special Bureau in Bissau eight months ago, fearing for his life after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo came to power. On Friday, during a ceremony, the UN Office marks the end of its activities, its mandate ending at the end of the year.…

The Chief of Staff of the French armies concluded a 48-hour visit on Friday, December 11, to Mali. General Lecointre went north to visit the French and European troops present in this part of the country to fight terrorism. He ended his visit, the first since the coup on August 18, through Bamako, where he met with several transitional authorities.…

With lower than 22,000 circumstances declared for the reason that pandemic started and 133 deaths recorded, Ivory Coast appears comparatively spared from the pandemic in comparison with different international locations in Africa as effectively. However Côte d'Ivoire is becoming a member of the Covax initiative and can launch a large vaccination marketing campaign subsequent yr, which the federal…