Africa

A tense election marketing campaign for Ivory Coast's presidential election on October 31 began on Thursday with the incumbent, Alassane Ouattara, in search of a controversial third time period. Some Ivorians accuse him of undermining the structure, and the opposition has known as for widespread "civil disobedience" to disrupt his controversial plans. For the previous 25 years, Côte d'Ivoire has…

The call for a boycott was launched Thursday by the opposition platform, which brings together the PDCI, Lider, GPS, the two branches of the FPI and other parties. Pascal Affi N'Guessan held a press conference at PDCI headquarters on Friday morning to clarify what the opposition means by an active boycott, but the announcement is not yet clear.…

When we postpone this case to two weeks, this obviously presupposes that, during these two weeks, President Kamto will still be assigned his home without any court order without any administrative order. This attack will therefore continue for at least two more weeks, and we cannot admit that a Cameroonian is kept at home with his family and home staff without food, without medicine, for that long. In the meantime, we, the lawyers, are thinking of other procedures that we can initiate so that this measure is effectively…

In Mali, a three-day national mourning began Thursday morning after the attacks on Tuesday by the Malian military post Sokoura in the Mopti region. In the Ségou region, the village of Farabougou, near Diabali, is the core of the concerns. For a week now, the inhabitants of this small village have been subjected to a blockade by suspected jihadists. An attempt at mediation is underway. “We transported vehicles on the outskirts of Farabougou, but we could not enter. In the Ségou government, people talk modestly about…

As Guinea's presidential election on October 18 approaches, the twelve candidates continue, as do the two favorites, outgoing President Alpha Condé and his main opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo. Twelve candidates and each has his method. Example in Upper Guinea, stronghold of outgoing President Alpha Condé. There, its activists have mainly carried out outreach campaigns. Alpha Cabinet Camara enters each concession in the Dalako district, reports our special correspondent in Kankan, Bineta Diagne. This activist from the…

The Director - General of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay, was in Kinshasa on Thursday 15 October. She met several personalities, including President Félix Tshisekedi. Discussions with the Congolese head of state focused mainly on the main construction sites in the education sector. Particular emphasis was placed on the large program of free basic education and the placement of young girls in school.…

RFI is in a special edition, 48 hours after the Guinean presidential election, which is to take place on Sunday, October 18, 2020. This Friday is the last day of the campaign, with the home stretching to convince voters. And if twelve candidates run in this election, the battle will be played between two men, Alpha Condé, the head of state aiming for a third term, and Cellou Dalein Diallo, the historic…

African countries and their creditors have their eyes set on Zambia, which in the coming weeks could become the first defaulted country since the Covid-19 crisis. Lusaka this week asked its creditors to postpone the deadlines for a tranche of three billion euros of loans in Eurobonds. At the same time, Zambia is reluctant to settle arrears of payments to its Chinese creditors. If there is no agreement, the country says it will no longer be able to pay its debt. The Zambian case highlights the inadequacy of the measures…

The Somali authorities have announced that they have received a huge amount of sulfuric acid. In a brief message Wednesday, intelligence services said they had seized 79 tons. An item that, according to Mogadishu, was intended for the terrorist group Shebab. The smugglers have been arrested and will be brought to justice, the NISA agency said. A seizure announced three years the day after the bloody attack in October 2017, when the explosion of a truck bomb left more than 600 dead in Mogadishu. as reported from…

Cyril Ramaphosa introduced his restoration plan on Thursday, October 15, in entrance of each departments in Cape City. Because the nation faces mass unemployment, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, the president intends to proceed his infrastructure funding plan to revive progress. as reported from Johannesburg, Claire…