Africa

The Grand Magal of Touba will be held well in two months, despite the resurgence of Covid-19. A decision was announced during a meeting between religious and administrative authorities. Magal de Touba empties millions of pilgrims each year to celebrate the departure of the founder of the Mouride Brotherhood, Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba. To be announced at the end of next September Grand Magal of Touba will be celebrated despite the Covid-19 pandemic. A statement from the spokesman for the caliph of the Mouride fraternity to the…

Togolese press executives are outraged that several Togolese journalists are targeting espionage using Pegasus software. More than 300 Togolese numbers appear in the list of potential targets for Israeli spy program, Pegasus, according tosurvey conducted by Amnesty International and several media outletsfrom the Forbidden…

Amnesty International has conducted new research on violence in the English-speaking west of Cameroon. The English-speaking regions are the scene of a deadly conflict between the Cameroonian army and armed separatists, from the country's English-speaking minority. Satellite images confirm testimonies coming back from the ground of civilian crimes, summary executions and destruction of homes.…

The International Criminal Court has dropped its arrest warrant for Ivory Coast's former president's lady, Simone Gbagbo, following violence following the 2010-2011 election that killed thousands, according to a decision released on Thursday.…

In Burkina Faso, the National Electoral Commission has a new president. It is the magistrate Elisé Ouedraogo who was elected after several hours of negotiations and after the intervention of several political or customary personalities. Despite the candidate's withdrawal from the ordinary chief, it was through a lack of consensus, through an election that two candidates for the post of president of the…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an inter-ministerial decree specifically allowing the capture and killing of certain protected species is controversial. The document re-emerged one year after it was signed. This text is also attacked by the National Institute for Conservation of Nature (ICCN), which considers this decree to be a setback for the country. Environmental associations and…

In the DRC, the organization Dynamique Impunité Zéro (DIZ) is taking legal action against a member of the presidential party, Augustin Kabuya, for calling on the population to revolt. According to this organization, the UDPS Secretary General threatened to distribute weapons to party militants to protect the power of President Felix Tshisekedi. Thanks Tshiunza Ntatamika, coordinator of DIZ, believes that this incitement against civil violence risks setting fire and bloodshed in the country and calls on the judicial system…

Where did Tom Erdimi go? The first chief of staff of Idriss Deby Itno and former coordinator of the oil project, before moving into the opposition where he was considered the gray prominent uprising led by his twin brother Timane Erdimi. He has been missing since 2020. His family is now trying to find him. Her family assures…

In Mali, General Moussa Diawara was arrested on Thursday, July 29, and imprisoned in Bamako. He was prosecuted from a legal source in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Birama Touré, who has given no sign of life since January 2016. It is also directed at Karim Keïta, son of former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.…

The Ivorian National Assembly this week adopted the cooperation agreement with France for the implementation of eco, the future West African currency. But the provisions of this currency that will replace the CFA franc continue to be discussed. In particular, on its firm parity with the euro guaranteed by France. as reported…