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Algeria is cutting diplomatic relations with Morocco, Foreign Minister Ramdane Lamamra said at a press conference on Tuesday, accusing his neighbor of "hostile actions". Morocco and Algeria have enjoyed strained…

Mariaa Siga, 2021 © Stéphane Pineau With a calling card as her first album Asekaw, which she finally has the opportunity to defend on stage, the Senegalese singer Mariaa Siga claims herself and with conviction forms her musical imprint between folk and reggae. Seeing her dance enthusiastically in the audience to the sound of Elida Almeida's Cape Verdean funaná, which performed on the July evening at the Nuits du Sud…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethnic and political skirmishes in Ethiopia have taken on another dimension, after Tuesday's clashes in the town of GarbaIssa in the Somali region, something could further hamper peacemaking processes in the Horn of Africa nation . According to reports from the BBC Somali Service, fighting broke out in the town of the Sitti zone of the Somali region between herders and militias from the Afar region. The battle comes a day after the Somali regional state said it would protect its residents of the city on…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Heavy clashes broke out in Mogadishu between authorities forces and highly effective troopers against the unlawful extension of outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. The battle started after the mutineers who left their bases within the Center Shabelle area flocked to the coastal capital final night time and took management of necessary villages within the north, together with Fagah and Sana. Skirmish unfold to most elements of the capital on Sunday night time with opposition candidates…

A speech just before the presidential election on October 31 to invite dialogue and thus avoid "disaster". "Gbagbo speaks for the first time", launches "in the headlines" the independent Ivorian daily Soir Info."I understand civil disobedience, I share it," Laurent Gbagbo said on the cover of Nouveau Réveil. This daily close to Henri Konan Bédié's PDCI also notes that in the interview he gave to our colleague Denise Époté…

Malian armed forces on Thursday, October 22, managed to break the blockade in Farabougou in central Mali after a 17-day siege of jihadist fighters. If the action pleases the villagers, it also compromises the ongoing mediation. "Of course we are very happy!" The voice of this inhabitant of Farabougou is not the voice of a man…