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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.…

So the United States has a new president, Joe Biden. And the press on the continent is very pleased, as is the Enquête au Senegal newspaper: "the good news is finally coming from Uncle Sam. In the greyness of Covid-19, with economies collapsing all over the world. "To prolong his nirvana in power, the fall of Donald Trump is a beautiful light that will illuminate the world, the Senegalese exclaim daily. Thus, America…

If African artists are among the big losers in the current economic crisis, those living and working in France are no better. Many remain of the aid mechanisms for artists established by the state. This is according to a study commissioned by Moca, the Forum of African and Diaspora Cultures in France. The impact of the…

In particular, the newly elected President of the United States will need to address the explosive situation in Ethiopia, the continued support for the democratic transition in Sudan and the handling of the Shebab threat in Somalia. In East Africa, the first hot file to reach Joe Biden's office is Ethiopia, reminds our correspondent in Nairobi Sébastien Nemeth.…