Africa

Several unions for public health care workers are demanding a new mobilization day, Tuesday 8 December. Hundreds of doctors gathered in Tunis on Friday. This protest movement after the death of a young colleague this week in the hospital. It is the death of a 27-year-old doctor that causes this anger. On Thursday, he fell…

The Congolese government began implementing a stop this week banning motorcycle taxis. Officially, this is a decision to fight accidents and aims to limit contact during this period of the fight against Covid-19. However, the measure does not pass among drivers and civil society. as reported from Brazzaville, Loïcia MartialA…

In Madagascar, the government has set the price per kilogram of rice. For several weeks, this food, basic food on the Big Island, has continued to increase. The prices of the different rice varieties at the grocery stores vary between 2200 and 2500 Ariarys (between 0.50 and 0.50 euros). Duties that Malagasy households can no longer afford. In the Anosibe district, inside the capital's largest wholesale market, most merchants heard the news about rice pricing in the morning. Their prices have not changed and few agree to…

The hunt for TPLF officials continues in Tigray. One week after announcing the capture of the regional capital Mekele, the federal government is still looking for the leaders of the movement. For its part, TPLF makes sure that the fight is not over.

In a choice adopted on Friday, December 4, the UN Safety Council determined to take away Burundi from its political agenda. A choice that comes shortly after the Burundian authorities' refusal to increase the workplaces of the UN Particular Envoy. The choice was introduced on Friday, December 4, in an announcement from the…

The regional elections will take place on Sunday, December 6, in Cameroon, but the population is not particularly worried about the vote. Especially because it is the big voters who are called to vote and not the general population, who rather think about organizing this year's celebration in a difficult economic context. With…

Colonel Malick Diaw, number two in the junta in Mali who ruled the country after the coup on August 18, was elected head of the National Transitional Council (CNT) on Saturday. This council, which has 121 seats and brings together political parties, representatives of civil society, trade unions and the military, met in Bamako for its inaugural session.…

Café Cacao Council launched an offensive earlier this week in opposition to two large chocolate makers, accusing them of failing to pay a particular premium supposed to higher pay cocoa-producing farmers. Hershey is claimed to have undertaken to pay this premium. That is a bonus, the First rate Revenue Distinction (DRD), which…

The Central African Republic is establishing a hemodialysis heart and a medical imaging heart specifically geared up with a scanner. A improbable first for the nation which might thus enhance the care of the sick. as reported from Bangui, Charlotte cossetDialysis, scanners, mammography, dental panoramas ... The hospital heart…

In Niger, a new step was taken this week in the so-called "Uraniumgate" deal. An investigation was launched this year in France and ROTAB, the network of organizations for transparency and budget analysis, has just become a civil party. The financial scandal says about "uraniumgateExploded in 2017. This is a transaction that…