Africa

Eleven years after his death, the remains of the former president of Guinea-Bissau and the hero of the war of independence against Portugal, Joao Bernardo Vieira, known as Nino Vieira, murdered in 2009, were transferred to the cemetery of martyrs, the Bissau-Guinean pantheon. Former President Joao Bernardo Vieira should have been buried in the Square of the Heroes of Independence, in Damura Fortress. President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has decided to rectify this injustice by transferring his remains to the Pantheon of…

"Yesterday, the daily Enquête au Senegal reports, during the daily update of the situation with coronavirus, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs reported eight new contaminants out of a total of 608 tests, including two imported cases. " Senegal, therefore, an example among others of a low level of pollution. And overall, the pandemic on the continent has not had the devastating effects that some predicted. This is what World Africa : “On the world map of the pandemic, Africa continues to stand out. While…

In Mauritania, greater than 900,000 college students resumed classes on Monday, November 16, starting the 2020-2021 faculty 12 months. A brand new faculty 12 months coming throughout the coronavirus pandemic. The well being disaster had led to the teachings being suspended for 9 months. with our correspondent in Nouakchott,…

A serious museum and archaeological challenge has simply been launched in Nigeria, within the metropolis of Benin Metropolis, to assist the return to African soil of artistic endeavors looted by English throughout their invasion of town in 1897. The primary photographs of the longer term Edo Museum of West African Artwork - Emowaa - was introduced just a few days in the past within the metropolis.…

It's troublesome to know precisely what is occurring on the bottom, on this area disputed by Morocco and the separatists. Final Friday, the Polisario Entrance claimed that the ceasefire signed in 1991 was damaged after a Moroccan navy operation to dam a highway within the buffer zone in Guerguerat, close to the border with Mauritania. Yesterday, the UN confirmed the trade of fireplace between Moroccan…

Imprisoned for five days on the premises of the judicial police, the five opposition figures were accused of "attacking the nation's fundamental interests" placed under a commitment decision and imprisoned in the civil prison in Conakry. as reported from Conakry, Moctar BahAbdoulaye Bah, Ousmane Gaoual Diallo and Cellou Baldé,…

The Finance Bill, prepared by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance and adopted by the government for almost three weeks, has still not come into the hands of parliamentarians, contrary to what the law requires. In the meantime, and this is what civil society firmly condemns, the population is entitled to some entertainment. Annoyance and anger increase.…

The campaign continues in Burkina Faso with a view to the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday 22 November. According to the UN, the country has about one million displaced people, of which almost half (more than 400,000) currently live in the north-central region, the Kaya region, about 100 kilometers from the capital. They will be able to vote where they are ... but not all. Reportage.…

Small cross-border trade is gradually resuming between the city of Rubavu, in Rwanda, and that of Goma in the DRC. The so-called “Petite Barrière” border post, one of the most crossed on the continent, had been closed for eight months because of the Covid-19 crisis. But since November 5, traders gathered in cooperatives, students, teachers or even doctors are allowed to pass subject to having tested negative for Covid -19. A decision taken jointly by the governors of the provinces on both sides of the border.…

In Ethiopia, fighting continues in the Tigray region in the absence of independent witnesses. Federal troops are trying to take the region's capital and capture the leaders of the Tigrayan party that controls it, the TPLF. In the other provinces of the federation, and especially in the capital, there is growing concern among Tigrayans about the fear of arrest or ethnic retaliation.…