West Africa

Two days before the Tabaski festival, Dakar begins to empty its population. Many Senegalese return to their families established in the regions to celebrate the festival. However, the President of the Republic has asked the Senegalese to stay at home to avoid the spread of Covid-19. Wearing a mask is now mandatory in public places and transport.…

Congolese President and President of the African Union FélixTshisekedia has been touring West Africa since July 15. His journey gradually led him to Ghana, Guinea and finally Guinea-Bissau. The situation in Mali, the difficult relations between the Guinean Alpha Condé and his Bissau-Guinean counterpart Umaro Sissoco Embalo were mentioned during the meeting chaired by Presidents Tshisekedi and Embalo.…

The 2021 campaign of 100 "young leaders" initiated by the Franco-African Foundation was unveiled on June 30 in Paris. The winners come from different sectors: banking, new technologies applied to medicine, media, development-oriented civil society or the productive sector. Like their predecessors, the 100 young leaders in the…

Visiting Burkina Faso, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the representative of France Insoumise, visited the site of the Thomas Sankara Memorial on Sunday afternoon, 18 July. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya BoudaniJean-Luc Mélenchon placed a bunch of flowers at the foot of the giant statue of Captain Thomas Sankara, he bowed in front of…

Human rights activists, journalists and opponents around the world have been spied on by software developed by an Israeli company, according to a study published in several media outlets on Sunday. NSO Group spyware Pegasus, if inserted into a smartphone, can retrieve messages, photos, contacts and even listen to calls from the…

The street enters the museum! In Abidjan, the municipality of Abobo is hosting an exhibition on local street art at the Adama Toungara Museum. A first for graffiti and tags that strewn across the city's roads. It is also a recognition for the artists, still very few to train on the street. as reported from Abidjan, Sidy…

The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…

We are voting this Sunday, July 18, in Sao Tome and Principe, a small African archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, near the equator. Santoméer is called to the election to elect his new president. A first round without illusion against the background of a pandemic and marked by foreign debt. Nineteen candidates are on the starting line, but not the incumbent Evaristo Carvalho, who is not running again.…

This Sunday, July 18, Jean-Luc Mélenchon begins a 4-day visit to Burkina Faso. France's insubordinate presidential candidate therefore intends to improve its position on the African continent. And the choice to go to Ouagadougou, the site of Emmanuel Macron's call for new relations between France and Africa, is of course not innocent.…

Malia's armed forces announced late Saturday night the kidnapping of three Chinese citizens and two Mauritanians working for construction companies on Malia's border with Mauritania. as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel The company consortium is responsible for paving roads and building bridges in Malian region Nara, located…