Africa

Demonstrations took place on Tuesday 13 October in Sbeïtla, about 30 miles (30 kilometers) from Kasserine, a marginalized region in central western Tunisia. Residents' anger erupted after the death of a man killed in the destruction of his newsstand. It all starts at night from Monday to Tuesday. The local authorities in Sbeïtla decide to apply a decision to destroy an illegal outlet for newspapers and tobacco. However, the owner's father is sleeping inside. He died during this operation. Her son explains that municipal…

In tonight's version: Nigerian police promise to cease utilizing pressure in opposition to protesters who've demonstrated in opposition to the violent SARS police unit. Guinea enters the ultimate a part of the marketing campaign forward of this weekend's presidential election. And folks residing on Senegal's well-known Goree Island, a former slave commerce middle, have welcomed the current reopening after seven months with out tourism. .

When voters in Guinea go to the polls on Sunday, they should select from 12 presidential candidates, together with the incumbent Alpha Condé. Whereas the 82-year-old president's supporters are assured of a victory, so is his primary opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo. FRANCE 24 report Malick Diakité, Elimane Ndao and Emmanuelle Landais. .

Five days after the release of Soumaïla Cissé, Sophie Pétronin and two Italian hostages of the Islamist and Muslim support group linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in exchange for jihadist fighters, there are still many questions surrounding this exchange. We know a little more every day about released jihadists in return for the four hostages. We now know their number. Having long cautiously claimed that there were several dozen, we now know with certainty that they were more than 200. Two hundred and six is…

A Canadian mining firm was getting ready to look in court docket for "slavery" and "pressured labor" in Eritrea following complaints from former staff who labored whereas employed within the dreaded obligatory navy service, which is obligatory. the youth of the nation. However an settlement was reached with the plaintiffs on the final minute.…

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 individuals, together with 13 troopers in a number of assaults in central Mali, burned down a military base and ambushed troops despatched as reinforcements, the military and native authorities mentioned on Tuesday. The assaults had been lethal because the August 18 army coup that toppled…

A prestigious literary prize was awarded on Monday night to Eritrean poet and journalist Amanuel Asrat, who has been missing from a prison in his country since September 2001. It is the British poet of Jamaican origin, Linton Kwesi Johnson, winner of the PEN Harold Prize Pinter 2020 awarded by the Founding Club of the Famous Writers' Circle, which in his absence presented him with the International Prize for Writer of Courage. Amanuel Asrat is one of the oldest political prisoners in the world and is said to be one of the…

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa is concerned about the decline in remittances from African diasporas. With the global economic crisis, these diasporas are sending less money to the countries of origin. This year, the decline is expected to reach 21% or 18 billion. Dollars less compared to 2019. The forecasts are alarming. Transfers will go from $ 85 billion in 2019 to $ 67 billion this year. And for many families living in anticipation of the manna sent by parents who have gone “north,” this is a…

A military position in Sokoura, in the circle of Bankass, "was the subject of a terrorist attack" from Monday night to Tuesday, said the army, which reports a preliminary death toll of "nine dead" and wounded in its ranks ". A reinforcement sent to the scene then fell Tuesday morning into an ambush that left "three dead, ten wounded" and missing, according to the statement. as reported from Bamako, The Malian army faced two attacks. First, that of his camp in the center of the country, a few dozen kilometers from the…

The highest mountain in Africa has been hit by a fire that started on Sunday. This large tourist resort, located in Tanzania, rises to 5895 meters above sea level. On the spot, hundreds of people - firefighters, soldiers, volunteers - are trying to limit the advance of the flame. With our regional correspondent in Nairobi, Nearly 400 soldiers, 600 firefighters, residents of the region, students and staff from tourism companies have been deployed on the slopes of Kilimanjaro in an attempt to control the fire. The flames…