Africa

At least six students aged 9 to 12 were killed and several others injured in a massacre committed at a school in Kumba, in the English-speaking region of the southwestern area on Saturday, October 24, according to the report, which was communicated in the evening. by the Cameroonian Prime Minister. It was a school day like any…

In Tunisia, civil society figures condemn the words of an Islamist deputy who justified the assassination in France of history professor Samuel Paty. Coming from academia, research, or the art world, about forty of them have signed an unequivocal petition to condemn dumb remarks and demand justice. The signatories, primarily from progressive and modernist academia, find it scandalous that a member of the nation can afford to justify death by beheading of French teacher, reports our correspondent in Tunis, Michel Picard.…

In one week since October 17, more than 2,600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and sub-Saharan Africa have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands, corresponding to the whole of 2019. The authorities seem overwhelmed. The health situation due to Covid prevents any repatriation to their countries of origin or transfer to the European continent. After sometimes a thousand kilometers and one to fifteen days of dangerous sea crossing, between 300 and 400 immigrants reach the coast of the Canary Islands every day, the island to…

Donald Trump introduced with nice fanfare the normalization of ties between Israel and Sudan. The US president took the chance to deal with one other challenge that Sudan and Egypt cherished, the massive dam on the Nile that Ethiopia has begun to fill with out the prior consent of its neighbors and regardless of threats from Cairo. Donald Trump went additional by guaranteeing that Egypt needed to blow…

In Burkina Faso, the number of active cases is 399 in eleven regions of the country. A number rising given the numbers for the past two weeks, according to the coordinator of the Operations Center for Response to Health Situations. Burkinabè will have to learn to live with Covid-19, but above all pay extra attention to respect for barrier movements. And the Harmattan period with its dry wind is not meant to improve the situation. Last week, the country registered 93 cases. This week there are 46 new positive cases.…

Guinea's President Alpha Condé has gained 59.49 p.c of the vote in a extremely controversial election, searching for a controversial third time period, in response to preliminary outcomes introduced by the nation's electoral authority on Saturday. His major rival, opposition politician Cellou Dalein Diallo - who claimed victory…

In Guinea, the Electoral Commission has just given the preliminary overall results of the presidential election. She declared outgoing President Alpha Condé elected in the first round with 59.49% of the vote. Opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo, who declared himself the winner of the presidential election before the results were announced, obtained 33.5% of the vote, according to the committee.…

Ethiopia on Saturday condemned "war-threatening threats" over the massive dam it has nearly accomplished on the Blue Nile River, a day after US President Donald Trump stated downstream Egypt would "blow up" the challenge it has known as an existential menace. With out naming Trump or america, the assertion from Prime Minister…

Libreville and the churches are now in conflict over the possible opening of places of worship. Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the Catholic Church has decided to reopen its chapels on Sunday, October 25, while the state has imposed the date of October 30 with believers' obligation to present a negative test before entering places. The church cries out for repression after seven months of closure. At a press conference on Friday 23. October, the spokesman for the President of the Republic, Jessye Ella Ekogha, was…