Africa

A G5 Sahel summit will take place on Friday, July 9, through video conferencing, the first since the announcement of the gradual end of Operation Barkhane. Emmanuel Macron will attend the meeting. He should take the opportunity to clarify the contours of this decoupling. The French president will attend this Elysee summit. But he will not be alone, he will have Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerian president,…

On May 9, Army Chief of Staff Abakar Abdelkerim Daoud was greeted triumphantly in Ndjamena after weeks of confrontation with rebels from the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad near Nokou. The rebels who were taken to prison were presented to the press. Two months later, Chad's civil society is concerned about the fate of six officials in the fact that it has no news about and the conditions for…

Starvation is one of the most serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the new report from NGO Oxfam, published on July 9, 2021, the number of people suffering from hunger has increased sixfold since the pandemic began. Currently, seven people die every minute of the pandemic around the world. But NGO Oxfam…

The third wave of Covid-19 in Africa has not yet reached its peak of infection, but already this wave is worse than the previous one according to the WHO, which is worried about the spread of the Delta variant. However, the Covax unit that will distribute vaccines to poor countries is at a standstill. Almost 251,000 new cases were discovered last week in Africa, 20% more than last week. At the same time, the continent is still facing a shortage of vaccines. The Covax unit, pilot piloted by WHO, thought to distribute doses…

In South Africa, the news caused surprise. Former President Jacob Zuma spent his first night in jail. Sentenced last week by the Constitutional Court to 15 months in prison for contempt for justice, he was finally detained on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, July 8, when the ultimatum to surrender to the police ceased.…

Médecins Sans Frontières has made the painful and difficult decision to suspend activities in certain places in the Tigray region, in Ethiopia, and calls on all authorities and all parties involved in the conflict to carry out in-depth investigations with one to establish the light, facts, circumstances and responsibilities, around this unfortunate event. We talk about difficult decisions, because we have always seen many needs on the ground. Therefore, Médecins Sans Frontières has decided to…

Almost a month after the election to the legislature, which was marked by a record-breaking vote and in the context of an economic and social crisis, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune presented the new team. At the domestic political level, little major change. At the diplomatic level, on the other hand, a remarkable return, that of Ramtane Lamamra to Foreign Affairs.…

This is an extraordinary session following the adoption of the text in the Council of Ministers on Monday 5 July. In perspective: local elections, postponed several times and finally sat until January 23, 2022. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracWe must act quickly: the law on the election law must be adopted by 23 July.…

"This time there is no more doubt: the dreaded third wave is here," exclaimsYoung Africaand the numbers start to rise again. Exacerbated by the spread of the famous Delta variant originally identified in India, the infection still affects the continent in a very heterogeneous way. The figures are therefore quite worrying in the north, especially in Egypt and Tunisia (where we have just passed the milestone of 400,000 cases).…

On July 8, 2020, Amadou Gon Coulibaly disappeared from a heart attack, when he had been called the RHDP candidate for the presidential election by Alassane Ouattara. The Presidential Party pays tribute to him and on this occasion the Heart and the Spirit appears, his autobiography written with the journalists Zyad Limam and Venance Konan. A book would accompany his presidential campaign and allow him to change his image of a tight technocrat. .