Africa press release

Disappeared eight months after his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the Ivorian prime minister, was buried on Friday 19 March in Séguéla. It is in his hometown in the northwest Ivory Coast that Hamed Bakayoko's remains after Friday prayers in the mosque will be buried."Goodbye Hambak!" Morning fraternity, government newspaper on the front page, which in an archive photo, Hamed Bakayoko, hands joined, walks on the red carpet…

Officially, Tanzania's President John Maguful has died of heart problems. This was announced by the Vice President on television on Wednesday, March 17, after more than two weeks of unresolved absence from the head of state."Easily re-elected in October last year for another term with 84% of the vote, John Magufuli, 61, appeared for the last time in public on February 27 and points to World Africa, there were persistent…

An entire country mourns its prime minister, Hamed Bakayoko, who died at the age of 56. In the kiosks, tribute continues and grows.Just one number that takes measurements of grief and sorrow in Ivory Coast: the number eleven. It is the sides, nothing less, that the daily L'Intelligent d'Abidjan dedicates to Hamed Bakayoko this morning, who has a total of twelve!As pointed out in an independent newspaper Inter, Ivorians are "in shock". Close to power, the daily…

A first page in black and white for L'Intelligent in Abidjan with the headline: “A great son of Côte d'Ivoire died yesterday; a terrible blow to the Ivorians and to President Ouattara. ”Black also on the front page of Fraternité Matin: "Hamed Bakayoko, alas ..." Abidjan sighs daily. With this comment, ”he began as prime minister, restoring the thread in a fruitful dialogue with the opposition. (Again) unfortunately ... He…

"If the presidential party retains its absolute majority in the National Assembly, pro-Gbagbo has shown that they remain one of the most important political forces in the country," he noted. The young Africa. (…) Of the 254 alternate seats at stake, Alassane Ouattara won the RHDP 137 and therefore obtained an absolute majority (results which are still preliminary as they have not yet been validated by the Constitutional…

In the Central African Republic, first of all, the presidential and legislative elections yesterday, which took place "in a tense security context", commemorate the radio Long Luke. On her website, she takes stock of this day and notes that “several cities did not have the chance to participate in these polls. This is the case, for example, with Bouar, Bozoum, Bambari, Kaga Bandoro, Kabo, Batangafo, the list is long, ”says…

A speech just before the presidential election on October 31 to invite dialogue and thus avoid "disaster". "Gbagbo speaks for the first time", launches "in the headlines" the independent Ivorian daily Soir Info."I understand civil disobedience, I share it," Laurent Gbagbo said on the cover of Nouveau Réveil. This daily close to Henri Konan Bédié's PDCI also notes that in the interview he gave to our colleague Denise Époté…

Visiting Mali, the chief of French diplomacy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, closed the door on a attainable dialogue with armed teams, explains Le Level Afrique."The least we will say is that the international minister left little question in regards to the French angle in direction of jihadist teams." Le Level Afrique quotes the phrases of Jean-Yves Le Drian, who responded to the press on Monday: "Allow us to say issues very clearly:…

Greater than 5 million Guinean voters have been referred to as to the polls Sunday to elect their president. Aside from a number of minor incidents, the vote came about peacefully.So who wins? There are definitely dozens of candidates, however this presidential election might be summed up as a duel between outgoing President Alpha Condé and his fundamental opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo.And the strain is palpable between the…

"The circles in Bankass and Bandiagara had been focused through the evening Monday to Tuesday by unidentified armed people, inflicting the deaths of 11 troopers and about 13 civilians," reviews the day by day L'Indépendant in Bamako. That is the heaviest toll recorded in a number of months within the middle of the nation in lower than 24 hours. (...) These simultaneous assaults got here after weeks of calm within the middle…