One in five out-of-school children worldwide is Nigerian. In Africa's most populous country, at least 10.5 million children under the age of 14 are in school. In the northern regions of the country, a large number of them receive only "Quran education", which does not necessarily include learning to read and arithmetic. In an effort to address this, Unicef ​​has developed a program to introduce some of…

In Guinea, the parties that supported the candidacy of their opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo in the last presidential election signed an agreement yesterday in Conakry to form a political alliance. But in the wake, in the late afternoon, two of their activists were arrested. An electoral coalition formed for the last presidential…

On Wednesday evening, 14 July, the Minister of Defense announced the deployment of 25,000 soldiers to stop the violence. riots that were originally triggered by the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma, but which quickly turned into looting. In Gauteng, Johannesburg and Pretoria and their surroundings, the situation is more or…

In a report published on Thursday, July 15, the NGO Amnesty International denies the European Union's cooperation in the treatment of migrants and refugees in Libya. She describes their conditions of detention as "cruel" and accuses the EU of being responsible to the Libyan government for these human rights violations suffered by migrants captured in Libya. Details from Sofia Dagna, Refugee and Migration Administrator at Amnesty International France. .

In the Central African Republic after the offensive, which at the beginning of the year was led by the rebel coalition of the Coalition for Change (CPC) and drove back to the gates of Bangui, the capital, now half the population is in food insecurity, a third more than last year. as reported from Bangui, Carol ValadeIn the…

Wednesday morning "the South Africans woke up again from the shooting", explains The inhabitant, to set the interior directly. A new muscular awakening "as extensive protests and looting continued in large parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, with the risk of spreading to other provinces", states the citizen. On the first page of its website, the daily newspaper also keeps records: 1,234 people have been arrested at the…

The election of the new office of the Independent National Electoral Commission is a big deal. The election, which was scheduled for last Monday, has been postponed until Thursday 15 July. The opposition parties challenge the representative of the usual chief. The candidate nominated by the ordinary chief is one of the candidates for the post of President of the Electoral Commission. According to the Election Act, the chairman of the Election Commission must come from civil society. But opponents suspect him of being an…

In Mali, former interim president Bah N'Daw and former prime minister Moctar Ouane have been under house arrest since the second coup led by the ruling military junta on May 24. They have just hired a lawyer with a very offensive strategy. Because Colonel Assimi Goïta is "the one who gives orders", because he is the one who…

For the first time since he took office, Evariste Ndayishimiye agrees to give a long interview to foreign media. For this he chose RFI and France 24. The President of Burundi was interviewed by RFI's Special Envoy to Kinshasa, Sonia Rolley, and by France 24's correspondent in Kinshasa, Clément Bonnerot. He spoke in particular on human rights in Burundi, on the resumption of dialogue with the EU and on…

Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum has just paid a so-called "working and friendly" visit to Algiers with five of his ministers. During their joint press conference yesterday, Mohamed Bazoum and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared themselves "completely in agreement on all areas discussed". The algae exchange…