Africa

The Central African class is in mourning: Désiré Bilal Kolingba, leader of the Central African Democratic Assembly, died at the age of 64 this Sunday, April 25, in Kinshasa, following an illness, according to his family. Former Minister for Youth and Sport during the presidency of François Bozizé, Désiré Kolingba was a candidate in two presidential elections in 2015 and in December last year.…

Calm returned this Sunday evening, April 25, in the Somali capital Mogadishu after a day of tension. As of this morning, the army loyal to President Farmajo had deployed in several points in the city, while troops hostile to the extension of his mandate had taken positions in a neighborhood where opponents shelter. Some demonstrations had taken place during the day and at the end of the afternoon violent clashes were heard in the city. The night has fallen for several hours in the Somali capital and tensions seem to have…

In Madagascar, in the Ampefiloha district, a popular district in the capital, there were about fifty construction workers protesting against the government. The reason: almost two hundred small and medium-sized construction companies (SMEs) in construction (BTP) have not been paid by the state in eight months for road works commissioned and for which the contract has been awarded to them. .…

Pope Francis on Sunday, April 25, described as "shameful" the destiny of 130 migrants who had disappeared since Thursday after a shipwreck within the Mediterranean, saying he was "very saddened by this tragedy". With our Vatican correspondent, Eric Senanque"I admit to you that I'm very saddened by the tragedy that has occurred…

Chad is a country still in national mourning and the Chadians are awaiting, following a historic week in which President Idriss Déby died, the installation of a transitional military committee led by his son, Mahamat, and a national funeral, on Friday, April 23, in the presence of a dozen foreign leaders. The various representatives of civil society and religious communities called for discussions to…

South Africa will be represented at the 93rd Oscar, this Sunday, April 25, in Los Angeles. The movie "The Octopus Wisdom" competes for the Oscar for Best Documentary, having won twenty trophies including Bafta, in the same category in London on 11 April. as reported from Johannesburg, Romain SongThe film tells the story of the…

Malaria killed almost 400,000 people worldwide in 2019, the vast majority of children under 5 years of age. Although lethal, this parasite can be treated with combined artemisinin treatments, also called dual therapy. But the problem with these treatments is that the parasites tend to resist them more and more often. So some researchers are working on developing new drugs and trials are currently being conducted on 1,600 children under the age of 5 in Mali, Ghana, Gabon and Benin ... The clinical trials conducted in these…

Mahamat Idriss Déby, the president of the Transitional Military Council, is young but already a general of the armies and for less than a week at the head of the Chadian leadership, following the death of President Idriss Déby Itno. The challenges for this young head of state are enormous. Begin by ensuring the security of the country, in the context of challenging its legitimacy and pending the…

After a series of political failures since the presidential election in October last year, the votes within the PDCI are increasing to condemn the party's strategy. While the historic political formation has just celebrated its 75th year of existence, its executive secretary and number 2 for the Maurice Kakou Guikahué party is one of the leaders crystallizing discontent, especially among the young people of the PDCI. According to the activists, the scene is second to none. Last Thursday, while representatives of the…

Convicted of a crime against humanity and of disturbing world order, Covid-19 was sentenced to disappear permanently from Earth without the possibility of rebirth in a mock trial organized on Saturday, April 24 by students at a private high school in Brazzaville who tried him before an "International Criminal Court of Pandemics ”. This courtyard was installed in a large room in the Lycée Camara Laye. The audience, which consisted mainly of parents of students, took place more than an hour before the trial against humanity…