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The African continent has surpassed 2 million confirmed cases as health officials warn of infections starting to creep up again into a second wave. The African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday that the continent had crossed that milestone. Its figures show that the 54-country continent has also seen more than 48,000 deaths from COVID-19. The 1.3 billion people of the African continent are warned of "preventive fatigue" as countries loosen pandemic restrictions…

The opening of the road connecting the western port city of Misrata and northern Sirte is due to the withdrawal of mercenaries and the removal of mines in the region, UN support for the National Accords (GNA) army said on Tuesday. The commander of the Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, General Ibrahim Beytulmal, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the decision taken during the military negotiations between the rival sides to open the coastal road was due to the withdrawal of Russian Wagner and Janjaweed…

It is an institution celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The Amiens International Film Festival, which specializes in so-called "southern" film, a benchmark for African film, was created in 1980. The 2020 edition opened its doors in a context darkened by the Covide epidemic and containment. In 40 years, the Amiens…

EUR 3.4 billion to add to the 600 million already acquired, this is the amount that the economic and monetary community of Central African countries came to Paris to seek from potential public and private creditors, during a round table two days. Cemac received 3.8 billion. The least developed sub-region on the African…

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj welcomed the decision by the country's warring parties to hold elections in December 2021, while the UN representative in the country said efforts were underway to secure the war-torn country's oil fields. Sarraj said in a statement that he was pleased that the election date was set for December 24, 2021 and the country's election commission would set aside funds to conduct them. The agreement was reached during UN-sponsored talks in Tunisia between representatives of…

Four out of five natural disasters in the last decade have been caused by extreme weather and climate-related events, according to the annual World Disaster Report from the Red Cross. Such disasters, which include floods, storms and heat waves, have led to more than 410,000 deaths since 2010, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Tuesday in Geneva. The Humanitarian Aid Group estimates that the lives of 1.7 billion people were disrupted when they lost family members, homes,…

Emmanuel Macron congratulated Alassane Ouattara on his re-election as head of Côte d'Ivoire on 31 October following a highly controversial vote that led to violence across the country. The French head of state sent an official letter to his counterpart this week, calling for dialogue in the country. In this letter dated…

The fight against Daesh continues and is now passing through Africa, according to the international coalition against the Islamic State group, which met this week with a video conference, at the initiative of the United States and Nigeria. If the group in Iraq and Syria, where the coalition has done a lot of military work, no…

The G20 finance ministers have adopted a new framework that will make it possible to reduce, or even eliminate, some of the debt of the poorest countries in the world. One week before the next G20 summit, finance ministers have decided to go beyond the current moratorium on the debts of poor countries, a moratorium extended to June 2021, but not enough, while some countries in the south are already…

The international subsidiary of the Pan-African banking group, Ecobank, officially launched Rapidtransfer International on Wednesday, November 12. It is a digital payment service between Europe and Africa. The banking group has thus shaken up a landscape that was previously dominated by two American companies. These transfers are very important today in African economies.…