Africa

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. .

The Congolese opposition has been very quiet since the presidential election it lost in March last year. The Action Committee for Renewal (CAR) came out of the woods on Wednesday, July 7th. Its president has asked some 20 groups, and even free voters, to set up a framework for reflection on the revision of the opposition, one year from elections to legislation and local group 2022.…

Congolese politicians will retain control of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Ceni). With about two years after the next election, differences remain, especially as regards the structure of the Commission. President Felix Tshisekedi issued the reform on Tuesday evening, July 6, and abstained from demands from the opposition, civil society and religious denominations. The stumbling block…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma surrendered to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, culminating in a lengthy legal drama seen as a test of the post-apartheid state's ability to enforce the rule of law. Police spokesman Lirandzu Themba confirmed in a statement that Zuma was in police custody, in accordance with the ruling of the Constitutional Court. The Department of Correctional Services said in a separate statement that Zuma was admitted to the Estcourt…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police early on Thursday to begin serving a 15-month sentence. Just minutes before the deadline for the police arrest at midnight, Zuma left his home in Nkandla in a convoy of vehicles. Zuma surrendered to authorities to obey the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, that he would serve time in prison for contempt. "President Zuma has decided to comply with the prison order. He is about to enter a prison facility in KZN…

Mahamat Saleh Haroun is undoubtedly a personality in Chadian culture. His film "A Screaming Man" is the first film by a Chadian filmmaker to be selected in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. And above all, he won the jury prize. Since then, this prolific filmmaker has made a series of nominations in Venice as well as in Cannes. This year, his film "Lingui" is competing in the…

Since the disappearance of Idriss Deby, Togo has organized meetings with Chadian rebel groups to prepare for a national dialogue with the new authorities in N'Djamena. The existence of these consultations was leaked to the Chadian press and RFI was able to confirm it. A slow and difficult process. Togo has intensified talks…