Africa

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, who's operating for re-election on October 31, has been a part of Ivorian politics for thirty years. This marketing campaign, he guarantees, shall be his final. When Ouattara proclaimed that he wouldn't stand for a 3rd time period again in March, he was praised by pal and foe, each in Ivory Coast and overseas. However after the dying of his elected successor, Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the 78-year-old as soon as once more took the marketing campaign path. Who're the…

In Guinea, ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations have just completed a joint mission to try to ease tensions following the October 18 presidential election. The latter in particular calls for the lifting of the blockade on the home of opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo. With our special correspondent,Charlotte…

In Sudan, the President of the Sovereign Council, the Transitional Body, spoke for the first time on the Israeli issue. On national television, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan praised this rapprochement and the benefits that the country would benefit from it. With our regional correspondent For Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, rapprochement with Israel was necessary and had to happen now. "The economic situation does not allow us to wait another year," said Lieutenant General. The rapprochement with the Hebrew state and the impending…

A US citizen was kidnapped in southern Niger overnight from Monday to Tuesday by six attackers who came on foot. as reported from Niger, Moussa KakaThe kidnapped U.S. citizen had lived for a year in the Massalata fortress, not far from the border with Nigeria. A year ago, Philip Walton had bought a garden and moved there with…

The European Union has chosen its candidate to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The EU Ambassador to Geneva will officially announce this Tuesday, October 27th. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Finance of Nigeria, formerly number two at the World Bank and perhaps soon the…

The start of the school year is still hypothetical two weeks after the official reopening of classes in the DRC. The striking teachers are demanding a regulation of their salaries and their status by the government. They suspended their mobilization without winning their case, but classes did not resume all. From our Kinshasa…

Visiting Mali, the chief of French diplomacy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, closed the door on a attainable dialogue with armed teams, explains Le Level Afrique."The least we will say is that the international minister left little question in regards to the French angle in direction of jihadist teams." Le Level Afrique quotes the phrases of Jean-Yves Le Drian, who responded to the press on Monday: "Allow us to say issues very clearly:…

Ivory Coast is voting this Saturday, October 31, for the first round of the presidential election. Nearly 7.5 million Ivorian citizens are urged to have their vote put on the ballot. They had until last Sunday to withdraw their voting cards. But less than half of the registered voters turned out to collect it. A weak mobilization that could be explained by the call for civil disobedience and an active…

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Félix Tshisekedi crossed the Congo River on Monday 26 October to Brazzaville, where he will attend the 80th anniversary of the Brazzaville Manifesto, De Gaulle's call for resistance against Nazi Germany during World War II. He will use this stay to discuss bilateral issues and internal politics with his counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso.…

A joint UN-AU-ECOWAS mission has been in Conakry since Sunday to try to find a solution to the crisis. After meeting on Monday, October 26, officials from Ceni, the government and the diplomatic corps, she went home to her opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo. Meanwhile, there is still an uncertain calm in the capital Conakry. The violence after the election now amounts to 21 deaths according to the…