Africa

In Chad, some pensioners have accrued virtually three years of pension debt. Since 2005, the unions have been campaigning to reform the nation's pension system and modernize it ... with out success. Retirees frequently sit in entrance of the Chad Nationwide Pension Fund to say arrears. Many stay in a tough social state of affairs. .

Following the transferring avalanche within the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, positioned in northern Morocco, Spain is making an attempt to regain management of the state of affairs. The socialist authorities introduced on Wednesday that 5,600 migrants have been returned to the border. There are nonetheless about 1,500 unaccompanied kids strolling the streets of Ceuta.…

No less than 15 individuals have been killed by gunmen on Wednesday, Could 19, within the Adjarara district of Tin-Akoff municipality. Instantly afterwards, 15 armed males have been killed in crossfire with a patrol from the Markoye army unit. A soldier was injured. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya BoudaniThat is the second…

A brand new trial towards Guillaume Soro opens at this time in Côte d'Ivoire. This time, the previous president of the Nationwide Meeting, who final yr was sentenced to twenty years in jail for cash laundering and concealment of embezzlement of public funds, is charged in his absence and with 19 of his kinfolk, for conspiracy towards state safety, participation in an armed gang and unlawful possession of…

Civic Coordination Wakit Tama on Wednesday, Could 19, known as for brand spanking new marches to demand the resignation of the Transitional Army Council and condemn what they name "destructive French intervention". Demonstrations banned by the authorities, who've launched a navy gadget that's, to say the least, dissuasive. The…

Despite the entry into force of the two-week siege in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, another imam committed against the radicalism of Islam in the territory of Beni was assassinated on Tuesday, May 18. Djamal Moussa, who is also president of civil society in the city of Mavivi, was shot dead in his home. He is the second imam killed in May just in Beni's territory.…

About 8,000 immigrants, an unprecedented influx at a time of high tension between Spain and Morocco, slipped into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Africa in two days, Spanish authorities said. They reached the enclave by swimming or by walking at low tide from beaches a few kilometers south, some with inflatable swimming rings and inflatable boats. Moroccan migrants climb a…

The U.S. Military Basic is visiting Somalia and Djibouti MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. African Command Commander, Basic Stephen Townsend, ended his journey to Africa on Tuesday, visiting each Somalia and Djibouti, the place Washington has strategic pursuits, notably in the safety and growth sectors. In the course of the journey, Townsend presided over the mixed joint activity power of the Horn…

The Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS, the primary opposition social gathering) suspended from its governing our bodies its president of the parliamentary group within the Nationwide Meeting. Honoré Sayi has been appointed Minister of Power and Hydraulics. He has accepted his sanction and guarantees to return "house" when his mission to serve the republic is over.…

Senegal launched an oil cadastre on Tuesday, a digital platform that tracks knowledge on the nation's oil and gasoline actions. The creation of this instrument was a advice from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracMap of blocks, record of permits - 9 property to this point -…