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the Assembly adopts a less ambitious but more realistic 2021 budget
Without delay, the Congolese National Assembly on Thursday, December 3, adopted the Finance Bill 2021, which allocates a budget slightly higher than the revised budget for 2020, a year marked by explosive budget overruns in political institutions. . A budget, really, less applauded, but realistic according to the authorities.…
Cach accused of corruption, the parish bureau takes up the matter
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tensions remain between Joseph Kabila's Common Front for the Congo (FCC) and Félix Tshisekedi's Cap for Change (Cach). The former president's political family accuses members of his successor's political platform of bribing to overthrow the parliamentary majority. After many statements in the press from the FCC, the tension has increased slightly in the two days.…
in Rufisque already friends and fans of Pape Bouba Diop pay tribute to him
as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idrac…
a desire for democracy despite the security situation
In Niger, the municipal and regional election campaign began on Wednesday, December 2. Nearly 7.5 million voters are expected to vote on Sunday, December 13 to elect their local elected representatives. These first votes will act as a balloon of scrutiny a few weeks before the parliamentary elections on 27 December, while the country is in the grip of growing uncertainty, especially in the Tillabéri…
a video involving Nana Akufo-Addo is controversial
The candidate for the New Patriotic Party is filmed and receives money in an envelope. The pictures are from 2016, before the head of state came to power. They are today the core of an information battle between the two main candidates a few days before the presidential election.
as reported from Accra, Christina okelloThe…
Human Rights Watch condemns the size of the violence off Côte d’Ivoire after the election
In a report printed on Wednesday, the NGO's Human Proper Watch condemns the extent of violence after the election in Côte d'Ivoire and asks the authorities to analyze the deaths of about 50 individuals. In accordance with HRW, at the least 50 individuals have misplaced their lives in gatherings and / or violence.
HRW analyzes…
the 121 members of the National Transitional Council are known
Following the appointment of the head of state of Mali, the appointment of a prime minister and members of his government, the third institution of the transition, the long-awaited National Transitional Council (CNT) was created on Friday. Among the 121 members, names were expected, but also surprises.
as reported from…
In Ethiopia, the humanitarian state of affairs is turning into more and more pressing
Almost a million individuals at the moment are displaced in Tigray or refugees in neighboring Sudan. The wants are monumental in meals, drugs, hygiene merchandise. An settlement signed on Wednesday between Addis Ababa and the UN was to supply entry to help to Tigray. However at current the state of affairs isn't but unblocked.…
Ivory Coast and Ghana livid at two chocolate multinational corporations
On the finish of November (Monday 30), Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana voted towards two US multinational chocolate corporations. Hershey and Mars are accused of avoiding paying a premium of $ 400 per tonne of cocoa bought. Known as the "Respectable Revenue Differential", this sum was negotiated final yr with the key chocolate teams. The goal is to make sure increased costs for producers. Abidjan and Accra…
Ivory Coast: the film “The Evening of the Kings”, expiatory behind closed doorways in a fantasy jail
The French-Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte has chosen MACA, the Abidjan Jail (the biggest jail in West Africa), as the primary character in his newest characteristic movie "La Nuit des rois", which might be launched in Abidjan's theaters on December 4. Notorious criminals or sad harmless individuals, the artistically gifted prisoners carry out an expiatory dance that bears the struggling of the modern historical past of the Ivory Coast. The movie was chosen by Ivorian cultural our bodies to signify the nation on the 2021…