Africa

It has been more than 100 days since the French journalist Olivier Dubois was kidnapped in Mali. A support meeting was held in Paris in the middle of the day. A banner was displayed in front of the town hall in the 10th arrondissement. The message was clear, open in all speeches: we must talk about Olivier Dubois, we must get…

Two health centers for victims of violence called "One stop center" opened this week in Bamako. On August 5, eight more will be made available to the Malian government in the Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou and Sikasso regions, as part of the Spotlight project. A joint initiative of the European Union and the UN to try to "eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls".…

To Unde the African press on Friday morning, Benin, where opponent Joël Aïvo was before Criet on Thursday, that is, the court for repression of economic crimes and terrorism, to begin his trial. This academic, who was a candidate for the Front for the Restoration of Democracy during the presidential election in April last year, must respond to criminal allegations of "money laundering and attacks on state security". Constitutionalist Joël Aïvo had since been in custody for the trial. During the hearing, the special…

The leading charity Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) on Friday announced a new campaign for the South of Africa, which is facing a severe food shortage and drought. The campaign under the motto "Extend your hand so that humanity will not die" is asking for donations to help Madagascar, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. The charity said in a statement on Friday that the drought, which began in 2018, and subsequent food shortages have reached…

In a unanimous statement on Thursday, with several ministers present, members of the Security Council called on the Libyan parties to make progress in meeting the December deadline. Encouraging, they want to believe in possible progress. But their positions were at odds with those of the main actors invited to inform them in New York.…

Three million doses are administered weekly, a total of 53 million since the start of the vaccination campaigns and only 8 million Africans have received the two doses required for complete immunity. Several factors explain these poor results. First, Africa received very few vaccines; then people remain suspicious and the fact…

The Boké mining region in northwestern Guinea also makes a living from agriculture and animal husbandry. Over the past ten years, an economic player has developed the region's fertile land by producing rice over hundreds of hectares, to the great satisfaction of the local population. From our correspondent in Conakry, On the left bank of the river Rio Nunez, the vast plains of Denken, as far as the eye can see, hundreds of people work under the leadership of an agricultural director, Mamadou Bobo Denken Diallo. For…

One in five out-of-school children worldwide is Nigerian. In Africa's most populous country, at least 10.5 million children under the age of 14 are in school. In the northern regions of the country, a large number of them receive only "Quran education", which does not necessarily include learning to read and arithmetic. In an effort to address this, Unicef ​​has developed a program to introduce some of…

In Guinea, the parties that supported the candidacy of their opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo in the last presidential election signed an agreement yesterday in Conakry to form a political alliance. But in the wake, in the late afternoon, two of their activists were arrested. An electoral coalition formed for the last presidential…

On Wednesday evening, 14 July, the Minister of Defense announced the deployment of 25,000 soldiers to stop the violence. riots that were originally triggered by the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma, but which quickly turned into looting. In Gauteng, Johannesburg and Pretoria and their surroundings, the situation is more or…