Africa

This Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the M23 or June 23 movement in Senegal. This coalition of political parties and civil society organizations created in 2011 was mobilized against President Abdoulaye Wade's candidacy for a third term in 2012. Ten years later, the movement's legacy is disputed. as reported from Dakar,…

The UN Human Rights Council opened its annual session on Monday, June 21, including examining the situation in Eritrea. The new UN special report, the Sudanese Mohamed Abdesalam Babiker, presented his first annual report on the country, condemning Asmara. It is every year in fairly diplomatic language that the conflict between Eritrea and the UN Human Rights Council takes place, and this time was no exception. Nevertheless, like his two predecessors, the special report painted a cruel picture for Eritreans: prisons…

In Senegal, a state data center was inaugurated in Diamniadio on Tuesday, June 22, near Dakar. The infrastructure, presented as a "tool for digital sovereignty", will make it possible to store data from the administration and the private sector. A "revolution" according to the authorities, in particular to facilitate the dematerialisation of administrative procedures. A project included in the emerging…

In Chad, unemployed academics demonstrate every week, mainly in Ndjamena, before being dispersed by the police. All claim that they have been integrated into the public service that some have been waiting for more than ten years. According to the unions, the Chadian government is the main employer with almost 85,000 jobs. If…

How do I manage and distribute authors' rights for artists in Africa in an increasingly digital world? This is one of the debates that excited the participants in the sixth edition of Moca, the African creativity movement, which was held last week in Paris. Platforms and telephone operators are increasingly using the work of artists and artists need to take greater advantage of it. This is particularly…

The former Mauritanian president, Mohmamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was arrested on Tuesday around 8 pm and detained by a judge from the anti-corruption pole of the Nouakchott-Ouest prosecutor's office, according to one of his lawyers contacted by our correspondent in Nouakchott. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who ruled Mauritania between 2008 and 2019, was accused on March 12 of corruption, embezzlement of public…

In Burkina Faso, a dozen police officers were killed in the Center-North region. The police who took over from a team were the target for the armed men in the afternoon on Monday 21 June. According to a report from the Minister of Security, 11 policemen were killed during the attack, four policemen are also missing. The attack…

Conflicts broke out between Tigrayan rebels, government forces and Eritrean troops. The northern province of Ethiopia has been in conflict since November 2020. The federal power, backed by troops sent by Asmara, confronts the TPLF, the former power in Tigray and its armed wing, the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF). For several days, the uprising began the offensive and took back several cities. The TDF launched a major offensive and the offensive was announced by one of the spokesmen for the Tigrayan forces on Saturday…

Germany is hosting a new international conference on Libya on Wednesday 23 June. The presence of many countries and actors on the ground should make it possible to consolidate the progress made in recent months, in particular as regards the conduct of elections. The withdrawal of foreign forces planned by the first conference in Berlin 18 months ago has not been followed.…

In Mali, five Christians were abducted on Monday, June 21, in the middle of the country. They had left the Mopti region and went to the Ségou region. They never got to their destination. The kidnapping has been confirmed by regional authorities, but it has not been claimed. The area is being visited by jihadists from Katiba Macina, linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, but no claims have been…