Africa

Ensuring access to drinking water for the entire world's population remains a major challenge, especially in Africa where only one in four people can get drinking water and benefit from basic sanitation. Like other companies specializing in the water and sanitation sector, the French group Véolia, which operates in about ten African countries, is trying to meet the challenge of making drinking water…

For the first time in South Sudan's history, a woman becomes chair of a university board (CA). Following a presidential decree circulating in state media, Awut Deng Acuil was appointed head of the board of Bahr El Ghazal University in the western country. This 57-year-old woman has been Minister of Education since February last year. Once again, her journey promotes gender equality in the country.…

No spectacular announcements about African debt at the G20 summit held practically this weekend. The countries in the south, and in particular Africa, were hoping for details after the G20 funding that had been held a week earlier. We talked about a new mechanism for debt restructuring in poor countries involving creditors like China. But obviously we have to wait for new messages.…

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army has warned residents of the city and prompted a UN…

The Election Commission interrupts the publication of the provisional results that are common to the municipality, as it began to do since Monday at This decision was taken after a statement by the seven candidates who signed the opposition's political agreement that had issued a statement warning Ceni. They also expressed "very strong reservations about the sincerity and credibility of these results"…

In Mali, the Collectif des associations de jeunes du pays dogon (CAJPD), which brings together forty organizations, is launching a large food operation. The operation is called "Bol lèi", two bowls, in the Dogon language. Dogon country, an area in central Mali in the Mopti region, has been the scene of years of jihadist…

Burkina Faso is now awaiting the results of the two elections, the legislative and presidential elections, which were held in the country this Sunday, November 22. After the bill, it is now time to compile. Work carried out in 368 municipal centers across the country. Report to the common center of the town hall Ouaga 1 in the center of the capital.…

In the Central African Republic, the deadline is fast approaching. And if all actors are active in organizing the presidential and legislative elections, civil society, for its part, is also preparing through education like those in Minusca. She wants to be ready to play her role in this second election since the 2013 crisis.…

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army warned residents of the city and caused a UN…

Former Mauritanian head of state Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first democratically elected president in 2007 and overthrown by a coup the following year, died on the night of November 22 to 23 in a clinic in the capital, Nouakchott, of a long illness. A three-day national mourning has been observed since the morning of 23 November throughout the territory.…