Africa

Twenty-four million voters were called to the polls to elect 407 deputies for the future National Assembly. Polling stations closed their doors at 8 pm local time after an hour's extension. One of the issues in the vote was turnout. According to the election authority, however, the turnout was 14% at 4 pm. At the capital's office, the audience was not at the meeting last Saturday.…

As soon as the schedule was announced, Patrice Emery Lumumba's remains were postponed indefinitely. The reason from the authorities is the health crisis. Jean-Jacques Lumumba, the grandson of the father of Congolese independence, calls for transparency in the cost of these ceremonies. Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi was…

A deadly attack took place on Thursday evening, June 10, at a science college in northern Nigeria. At least one student was killed and several people were abducted. Teachers and students at Zaria Science and Technology College are still in shock after the attack took place on Thursday night."I'm pregnant, I can not walk," said…

Puntland may become the first territory in the Horn of Africa to ban female circumcision. The president and government of this semi-autonomous territory in Somalia have approved a law banning female genital mutilation. Somalia has one of the highest rates of excision in the world with 98% of women between the ages of 15 and 49 being victims, according to the UN. The text has not yet been ratified, but Save The Children is already talking about a "big step forward". Under the Council of Ministers, The President's denial…

Heroin, cocaine, cannabis, but also more recently synthetic cannabis and methamphetamine: drug trafficking and consumption are increasing and diversifying in the Indian Ocean, especially in Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius. The NGO's global initiative against cross-border organized crime has been researched and published…

Since the publication in 2006 of his first novel And the sky forgot to rain, the Mauritanian author Beyrouk has established himself as one of the greatest voices in African literature in French. Author today of six novels and a collection of short stories, he tells story by story the breaking lines of his society torn between tradition and modernity. The desert so close, its majestic and disturbing enormity form the background of his…

"From Congolese father and mother". Under this heading, in the section À Haute Voix, the daily Le Potentiel returns to the question of nationality which has been at the center of debates for several days. The question is divided. And, writes the columnist, the head of state shared his thoughts with the senators of the holy union he received last Saturday. According to this colleague, Tshisekedi rather recommended the path…

Paris on Friday confirmed the death on June 5 of Baye ag Bakabo, the alleged leader of the command that had kidnapped our colleagues from RFI, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, on November 2, 2013 in Kidal, northern Mali. With his death, only one member of the command remains alive and one of the alleged co-organizers of the kidnapping.…

Coups that are increasingly tolerated by the African Union, the sub-regional organizations and some African friends, it will be necessary to stop putting their authors in the position of having to account. Emmanuel Macron, who announced the end of Operation Barkhane, says France does not need to replace African states forever.…

One week ago, Burkina Faso woke up to the news of a horrific massacre in the northern village of Solhan. You wrote a comment "warm»On social networks the day after this tragedy.Yes, there was a small personal dimension to this reaction. I learned the news of Solhan's tragedy when I landed in Dakar, after a week in Ouagadougou, as part of WATHI's advocating efforts for health system reforms in the region. So far from…