Africa report

The fourth largest metropolis in Côte d'Ivoire, Korhogo is taken into account the capital of the northern nation of the Senufo individuals area. The town, which was significantly remoted a couple of years in the past, has benefited from financial progress particularly because of the accession to energy of one in all its most well-known residents: former Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly. .

Bouaké, the nation's second metropolis, is infamous for being the insurgent headquarters within the 2000s when Laurent Gbagbo was in energy. The northern metropolis has skilled a decline in its financial and cultural exercise. Immediately, Bouaké tries to rise from the ashes. .

The 4 candidates operating for the Ivorian presidential election have two quick weeks to make a distinction. This 12 months, President Alassane Ouattara's crew has determined to hunt voters at dwelling, with TV spots highlighting his document and his program for the following election interval. .

In Ivory Coast, in Gagnoa, the hometown of Laurent Gbagbo, the query of returning to the previous Ivorian president swallows the political debate. Some are ready for him as a messiah, others hope to not hear extra about this thorny topic. The authorities' refusal to provide him a passport to permit him to return to the Ivory Coast, in addition to the tensions earlier than the election, arouses anger and…

Conventional medicines retain a distinguished place on the continent, and the WHO not too long ago inspired analysis into this observe, whereas the epidemic has revived the controversy about their effectiveness. In South Africa, many sufferers flip to "sangomas", these healers-fortune tellers who talk with their ancestors.…

On World Mental Health Day, Saturday 10 October, NGO Human Rights Watch released a report. Globally, 792 million people have a mental health problem - one in 10 people and one in five children. And yet governments spend less than 2% of their health budget on mental health. In Kenya, there are only two psychiatrists per Million inhabitants. As a result, patients find themselves locked up, bound, or…

In Tunisia, the wreckage of a French military submarine that disappeared in 1917 was discovered. A Cap Bon diving club located and identified Ariane, sunk during World War I. The sinking caused the deaths of 21 people, 8 sailors survived this tragedy. This discovery is reminiscent of the submarine potential on the Tunisian coast and revives the memory obligation.

In Côte d'Ivoire, the official presidential election marketing campaign begins on October 15 and ends on October 29, however already it's the ruling social gathering or opposition formations that arrange conferences, public conferences, funding ceremonies and different political gatherings. . On the coronary heart of those…

In the city of Kisangani, cultural actors keep alive the memory of the violence that destroyed the city and killed at least 700 people. Three actors on stage and a very attentive audience. The play being played evokes democracy in Africa and its opposites. This is the 10th edition of the Ngoma Festival. The Taccems Group, which organizes it, specializes in indoor theater, but also plays what it calls intervention theater. It was in this context that he put on a show on the Six-Day War. A piece that was difficult to…

More than 700 civilians died from 5 to 10 June 2000 in Kisangani after heavy arms conflicts between the Rwandan and Ugandan armies. Even today, the traces of this violence are still there and the pain is still alive. Monsignor Samuel Lotika has gray hair and well-worn glasses. The provincial president-bishop of Christ Church in Congo barely hides his teary-eyed eyes at the mention of the Six-Day War. “The first one was going to fall in the classroom where my son was studying. Many of the students were dead. It was also…