Africa

Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas hospitalized in Congo-Brazzaville, just before the presidential election of which he is a candidate. According to his campaign manager, he was diagnosed positive for Covid 19 on Friday, March 19th. He is one of the biggest opponents of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in this election. His relatives are working this Saturday night with his possible evacuation to France.…

This week, strong tensions erupted between Christian and Muslim communities in Ilorin, the capital of the state of Kwara, in central Nigeria. This crisis resulted in the closure of ten public schools. At the heart of the dispute is the ban on wearing the Islamic veil imposed on Muslim students in a dozen predominantly Christian schools in the city. Despite government intervention, eager to guarantee…

Highway number 4 is an important axis for the delivery of Goma, and trucks rotate there all day. The mayor of the city of Goma specifies that the accident was due to a failure of the braking system. There was a horrific accident caused by a truck with the brakes failing. The road is not dangerous. It was the truck that had broken down. Timothée Mwissa Kiense, Mayor of Goma. .

IGAD member states strongly urged to increase resource allocation All eight Member States of the Intergovernmental Development Agency are called upon to increase the allocation of resources to disaster risk management. The IGAD 12th Steering Committee and 7th General Assembly, held in Mombasa, were also asked to step up cooperation efforts that will protect people vulnerable to…

Congo-Brazzaville has been led for almost 37 years by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who is seeking a new presidential mandate tomorrow, Sunday 21 March. He will face six other candidates, including two former ministers, Mathias Dzon and Brice Parfait Kolélas. On the eve of this presidential election, FIDH and its Congolese partner, OCHD, say they are "deeply" concerned about the "deterioration of the democratic…

Several marches took place this Saturday, March 20, in various neighborhoods in N'djamena. Political parties and civil society associations had called for demonstrations against President Marshal Idriss Déby Itno's sixth term. The demonstrations were banned by the authorities, who implemented an impressive security system in several neighborhoods in the Chadian capital. About forty people were…

Academic and African media specialist Marie-Soleil Frère died on the night of 18 to 19 March. Research director, she taught journalism at the Free University of Brussels, as she did at the University of Ouagadougou. Author of several books, she focused in particular on the role of the media in the political development of French-speaking Africa.…

This Saturday, March 20, marks La Francophonie's International Day. Postponed for a year, the Estates General of French-language books will gather publishing professionals in September next year, in Tunis, on the sidelines of the summit of heads of state La Francophonie. Access to books is still too difficult in the…

Since the first cases of Covid-19 appeared in the country in March 2020, young Burkinabè have transposed expressions linked to the pandemic into their daily lives. They had to develop a kind of resistance to a disease that had no vaccine and whose name alone sowed fear. Let us go to the discovery of these terms "covid", that is, linked to Covid-19.…

In the daily Le Potentiel, in the headline, "Election 2023: CENCO Reveals Its Roadmap". According to this newspaper, "the National Bishops' Conference in Congo intends to maintain pressure on the government to hold parliamentary elections in 2023." This structure of the Catholic Church insists that it "does not tolerate any slippage", we can still read. "The CENCO roadmap includes a range of activities, Le Potentiel…