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Before the military coup in the middle of a challenge to Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's regime, the demonstrations followed each other with overflows in the protesters and also a murderous repression by the police. Minusma examined in detail what was really going on these days, from 10 to 13 July. She has just published her findings.…

This is the story of a joke that has become a phenomenon on social networks. A virtual union that handles relationships and defends women's economic autonomy with humor. This union, born in the Ivory Coast, is spreading across Africa. He issues rules, makes friends, enemies and plays his role as "scratching hair" wonderfully. Congolese journalist Rodriguez Katsuva is a member. .

At a time when Tunisia is experiencing a severe economic and social crisis, the trade union center and civil society wanted to mobilize to get the country out of paralysis. A demonstration was held in front of the parliament in Tunis on Friday 18 December. Divided, the Assembly fights to promote the legislative process necessary for reforms.…

The Libyan army on Saturday said there was a military build-up around the northern province of Sirte and central Jufra as well as southern regions of forces loyal to Putist general Khalifa Haftar. Abdulhadi Dirah, a spokesman for the Libyan army's Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that a Russian cargo plane landed at Sirte's Qardabiya Air Base on Saturday morning. The army further decided that 23 armored vehicles and two trucks loaded with ammunition were on their way to the…

It is today that France ratifies the Monetary Cooperation Agreement concluded a year ago, on 21 December 2019, by Paris and the states of the West African Monetary Union. This agreement marks the conversion of the CFA franc, which will be echoed while maintaining the fixed parity with the euro. France withdraws its representatives from monetary governing bodies such as the BCEAO and no longer requires…

Despite scientific and technological advances over the past century, more than 40 million people worldwide continue to be victims of modern-day slavery, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported, showing that countries made little or no progress in stopping forced labor. "Modern slavery is used as an umbrella term covering methods such as forced labor, indebtedness, forced marriage and human trafficking. It mainly refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave due to…

A global need for humanitarian aid has risen to unprecedented levels this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN humanitarian office said on Tuesday, as the outbreak has exacerbated the risk of many famines threatening many continents, in addition to global conflict challenges, forced migration and the effects of global warming. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated in its latest annual global humanitarian survey that $ 35 billion would be needed for aid in 2021,…

Several associations have taken a stand to warn of a number of restrictions regarding the so-called sensitive archives for the role of the French army in Rwanda in the early 1990s. For some historians, access to these archives is only a problem for the Duclert Commission. , especially since they treat a painful substance. The…

When and how deconfin? Emmanuel Macron will speak to the French this Tuesday evening, November 24, after several weeks of strong restrictions. A situation that weighs particularly heavily in neighborhoods with lower incomes for economic reasons but also because the death rate is higher there than elsewhere. To survive, some communities organize. In Marseille, the Comorian diaspora - almost 120,000…

Ensuring access to drinking water for the entire world's population remains a major challenge, especially in Africa where only one in four people can get drinking water and benefit from basic sanitation. Like other companies specializing in the water and sanitation sector, the French group Véolia, which operates in about ten African countries, is trying to meet the challenge of making drinking water…