West Africa

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The fight against terrorism in northern Mali, where information exchange and joint patrols are carried out. Allied forces on the ground are increasingly concentrating their efforts on fighting terrorism. This is the case in Tessalit, where French Barkhane forces, the UN peacekeeping forces and the Malian armed forces coexist.…

Review of March 11 death in Ivorian by Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, unanimously hailed as a man of consensus who is able on the same day to move from one leader of one political sensitivity to another and then to a third of different sensitivity. In a country where biased competition sometimes seems incompatible, isn’t that an essential trait?It really is one. And that is so much more important, as this country gives the impression of always being torn…

After several days of demonstrations marked by violence that left between 5 and 11 dead, and while peaceful demonstrations are scheduled for today, March 13, Wathi shares some lessons to be learned from this rise in fever in Senegal. First lesson: forget the light labels. .

On March 13, 2016, a terrorist attack left more than twenty dead in the seaside resort of Grand-Bassam in Côte d'Ivoire, located about forty kilometers from Abidjan. Armed men appeared on the beach and shot at holidaymakers. If life is resumed in Bassam, this attack strongly marked the city, its inhabitants and the tourism sector. From our special envoys to…

One week after his installation, the new opposition leader met the president of Faso. Eddie Komboïgo, President of the Congress of Democracy and Progress, a party founded by former President Blaise Compaoré, went to discuss on Friday 12 March with the head of state the most important topics in the news in his country: the fight against terrorism , the process of national reconciliation leader requires…

The Movement for the Defense of Democracy has decided to suspend its call for peaceful demonstration following an exchange with the envoy of the Caliph General of the Murid Brotherhood. In a press release, M2D states that it has "accepted the request for postponement" formulated by the influential religious leader Serigne Mountakha Mbacké. "In return", M2D states that he has sent the caliph a memorandum with 10 demands, in particular "immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned political prisoners", "the end of the…

In Senegal, an organized day of mourning and prayer was organized on Friday, March 12, in memory of the victims of the recent protests. Problems that have left 10 dead, government sources, at least 11 according to the protest movement. The Movement for the Defense of Democracy (M2D), which brings together political parties and civil society organizations, especially demands the release of those arrested…

Nigerian gunmen have taken an unspecified number of students from a college in a northwestern state, local police said on Friday in the latest abduction against schools. The suspected kidnapping gang stormed the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization in Mando, Kaduna, around 1 p.m. 21.30 (20:30 GMT) on Thursday and shot indiscriminately and took students hostage. The university is said to have about 300 male and female students - mostly 17 years and older - at the time of the attack, but it was not…

The Ivorian prime minister died on Wednesday, March 10, in Germany, from cancer. Ivorians will be able to pay tribute to him next week in Abidjan and Séguéla. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre PintoThe deadly remains of Hamed Bakayoko will be repatriated this Saturday, March 13, in Côte d'Ivoire at a time yet to be revealed.…