Africa

In Chad as candidates are combating for the presidential election on Sunday, April 11. The coronavirus epidemic has invited itself to the marketing campaign. One in every of the candidates fell in poor health a number of days earlier than the election and needed to promote in quarantine. That is the opposition chief, Félix Nialbe Romadoumngar from the URD, the Union for Renewal and Democracy. The…

In Senegal, a dean of tradition within the highlight is in focus: Ablaye Ndiaye "Thiossane", 85, musician, painter, playwright and bio poster designer. This little-known side of the artist is highlighted within the exhibition, which was inaugurated on Tuesday 6 April within the Manège Gallery on the French Institute in Dakar. From the Nineteen Fifties till at this time, Ablaye Ndiaye Thiossane has…

In Chad, greater than 4 days earlier than the presidential election scheduled for subsequent Sunday. Six candidates are working towards incumbent President Idriss Deby Itno. With small means, they withdrew to the provinces, the place they tried to steer the folks to not supply one other mandate to the outgoing head of state, in energy for thirty years and asking for a brand new six-year mandate. After…

A slave lady was reportedly provided in a wedding dowry in Ouadane, an historical historic metropolis within the Mauretanian Adrar. Pure invention confirms the Nationwide Fee for Human Rights, near energy, which despatched a fact-finding mission on the bottom. However the president of SOS Esclaves, himself a descendant of slaves, Boubacar Ould Messaoud, was arrested, tried and condemned a number of…

April 7 marks the start of the celebration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. This 12 months is the twenty seventh anniversary of the massacres. Particular anniversary in France: Twelve days in the past, the Ducler Fee issued Emmanuel Macron its report on the function of France throughout and earlier than the genocide. If the Fee excludes complicity in genocide, it considers France to bear "heavy and overwhelming accountability" on this tragedy. This report marks a very important step within the normalization of…

In an announcement launched on Tuesday, the Council of Ministers introduced that it had accepted a invoice to finish the blockade launched in 1958. The textual content has not but been accepted by the Sovereignty Council, the nation's highest authority. However the objective is to raise the boycott of Israeli regulation this yr.…

Although declared a "priority of priorities" in the early 1980s, agriculture did not allow Congo to be self-sufficient and restrict food imports. The authorities now want to intensify this agriculture in order to diversify the economy of the country, which is struggling to minimize its dependence on oil revenues. From our…

In South Africa, when rhinos are poached, their children are abandoned too young to survive on their own. That is why there is a center in the province of Limpopo, in the north of the country, to collect them, the time when they become independent and can be released into the reserve. From our special correspondent in…

On Tuesday, April 6, the country's new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, considered it "not good" to ignore the importance of the pandemic. She spoke at the inauguration ceremony for members of her new government in Dar es Salaam. ►Samia Suluhu Hassana took the country's reins in March, after the sudden death of John Magufuli.…

The tripartite meeting on the Great Lady of the Renaissance (GERD) ended on Tuesday, April 6 in Kinshasa. Scheduled for two days, it lasted for three days without the Ethiopian, Sudanese and Egyptian delegates reaching an agreement. Félix Tshisekedi hoped to unleash a new dynamic through this meeting to reach a consensus plan. This meeting should also lead to the setting of the goals and frequency of…