Africa

Faced with the easing of the population in terms of barrier movements and the resurgence of the epidemic throughout the territory, especially in the center and north of the country, the National Gendarmerie has just announced the resumption of old regulations decided by the Ministries of Interior and health. It is clear, social distance, sanctions for not wearing a mask and above all the obligation to bury the dead from Covid or suspected of having died by Covid at their place of death. A hard blow to the Malagasy people,…

While Congo-Brazzaville is fighting for the presidential election on March 21, the authorities have promised to settle all arrears due to the 45,000 pensioners registered with the National Social Security Fund (CNSS). They are currently collecting arrears for 2020 and are asking that sixteen quarters accumulated in previous years also be paid.…

Alexandre Ibacka Dzabana, coordinator of the Congolese platform for human rights and democracy NGOs, a member of the M22 movement and the Turn the Page coalition, was arrested on Thursday morning. He is suspected of trying to destabilize the state and institutions ten days before the next presidential election. Alexandre Ibacka…

The front doors to the Grand Marché of Niamey have reopened since this week. An event because it had been more than two years since they were closed due to work on the highway. While the Covid-19 pandemic and the violence in the post-election crisis have hit the capital's economic lung hard, traders are hoping to reopen their doors.…

Justice and Law Enforcement is looking for Kalev Mutond, the former head of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR), who has been hit by a dozen complaints from former detainees. Kalev Mutond was not home on Thursday, March 11, when police looted his home in Ngaliema municipality. The former strongman during the presidency of Joseph Kabila had not respected the first two summons sent to him by the…

The International Criminal Court of Appeals will deliver its judgment on 31 March at 15, The Hague time. The charge of crimes against humanity committed during the violence after the 2010 and 2011 elections, the former head of state and his short-lived minister were acquitted in January 2019. But the prosecutor had appealed against this acquittal. Therefore, reply on March 31st. What are the possible…

On Wednesday, March 11, the United States designated the ADF, the allied democratic forces active in the DRC, and Daesh Mozambique as "foreign terrorist organizations" and "specifically designated global terrorist groups". These classifications, which include their respective leaders, Seka Musa Baluku and Abu Yasir Hassan, have resulted in a number of sanctions.…

The U.S. State Department is now considering the Ugandan-born ADF uprising as a terrorist movement affiliated with the Islamic State group. The US authorities even change the name of this movement, which is violent in the eastern DRC and now calls it the Daech-DRC. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient Ligodi Individuals or…

Following the national day of mourning, which was determined on Thursday by President Macky Sall, the protest movement is organizing its own day of mourning this Friday, March 12th. Recent protests have left 10 dead, government sources, 11 according to protesters. The Red Cross, for its part, imposed a partial toll on at least 590 wounded. In this context, many young people volunteer to donate blood.…

In Mauritania, the Nouakchott prosecutor on Thursday, March 11, requested indictment from former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for corruption. In addition to the former president, one of his sons-in-law, two former prime ministers and several former ministers and businessmen are concerned about this request from the prosecutor, who even demands placement under "extensive" judicial supervision,…