Africa

The offices will open this Saturday at 8. 24 million voters are urged to elect the 407 deputies to the National People's Congress, for a five-year term, in early legislative elections. This election, organized after the revision of the constitution, marks a new stage in the roadmap that an Algerian power has set out in search of legitimacy, more than two years after the fall of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. If the former National Assembly was dominated by the FLN and RND parties, its composition could change.…

In the Katanga region, most children work either in mining sites or in informal trade. This is an obstacle to their education. To deal with this, the provincial government of Haut Katanga has just set up the committee to combat the worst forms of child labor in order to bring these children back to school. as reported from…

Decisive weekend before the end of the Riksdag, Tuesday 15 June. All eyes are on the special commission responsible for examining the court's indictment seeking a waiver of immunity in the Senate. In addition to former Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo, new names have been added to the list. Former Senate President Alexis Thambwe Mwamba and former Quaestor Eric Rubuye are now on this list. They are accused of financial advances during their time in the Senate office. The two men are requested by the Court of…

Chad is still awaiting the launch of the inclusive dialogue and the appointment of members of the Transitional National Council with a view to adopting a new constitution. Meanwhile, a march was held on June 11 in support of the Transitional Military Council in Ndjamena. This mobilization was approved by the authorities and monitored by the police in a very specific way.…

The head of the UN Humanitarian Office believes that we can talk about famine in the Tigray region. The region is experiencing record levels of malnutrition, seven months after the start of the civil war between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels. The numbers are truly catastrophic, but Addis Ababa absolutely refuses to use the word famine, which could obviously increase pressure on the…

A little more than two weeks after the eruption of the volcano Nyiragongo, life begins to resume in Goma and its surroundings, but the damage is still visible both in the city, where the cracks are felt in some places and around Goma. Part of Virunga National Park still has the scars of the lava flow. This park is presented as the protected area that contains the richest biodiversity in Africa.…

M2D staged demonstrations on Friday, June 11 in Dakar, Diourbel and Ziguinchorp to demand the release of detainees following the riots in March last year. Violence that had left at least 13 dead in connection with the trial against Ousmane Sonko. The coalition between political parties and civil society organizations supporting him, the demonstrations were suspended after mediation by the caliph general…

The French Foreign Minister met with Burkinabe's Head of State Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on Friday, June 11 in Ouagadougou. After the attack on Solhan last week, the head of French diplomacy came to present France's condolences in the face of the tragedy experienced by the people of Solhan. He took the opportunity to give some explanations about France's new security policy in the Sahel.…

Minister of the Forces Florence Parly announced on Friday 11 June the death of the jihadist cadre Aqmi Baye Ag Bakabo, the head of the command who had kidnapped our colleagues Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon on 2 November 2013 in Kidal in northern Mali. But for those close to them, the death of the jihadist deprives them of many answers.…

In a report published on Friday, June 11, the International Crisis Group (ICG) thinks that the Mozambican government, hitherto unwilling to accept any foreign intervention, should accept "measured" military support to fight the jihadists terrorizing the province of Cabo Delgado, in the northern part of country, for more than three years.…