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As Ivorians prepare to vote to elect their president this Saturday, Oct. 31, religious leaders are renewing their call for unity while artists sing in favor of tolerance. The country is still plagued by election violence in 2010. And hopes that this election will take place in peace. The Alliance of Religions for Peace, which…

It is an uncertain calm that prevails in Guinea the day after Cenis' proclamation of the preliminary results of the presidential election. The outgoing president, Alpha Condé, was re-elected with more than 59% of the vote. Cellou Dalein Diallo, leader and candidate of the UFDG, credited by Ceni with 33.5% of the vote, condemned "a freedom of choice". He intends to challenge them by seeing the courts,…

Opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo, President Alpha Condé's main opponent in Sunday's presidential election, declared himself the winner of the vote on Monday afternoon. The Independent National Electoral Commission, for its part, recalled that it was the only one authorized to announce the results of this first round. as reported…

In Côte d'Ivoire, the ECOWAS ministerial mission completed its two-day mission on Monday 19 October. In its final statement, the delegation from the West African Economic Community called for restraint, but also called on Pascal Affi N'guessan from the FPI and Henri Konan Bedié from the PDCI to reconsider their words on the order of boycott of the electoral process and civil disobedience.…

This killing revived racial tensions and triggered incidents last week. On Monday morning, the head of state, Cyril Ramaphosa, warned: "This incident shows how easily the fire of racial hatred can be rekindled." Ten days ago a young white farmer, 22, was murdered. Brendin Horn's body was found tied to a pole on his farm in Senekal, Free State province, 200 kilometers from Johannesburg. In the process, two black men were arrested. They are suspected of killing the farmer and stealing cattle. After the murder, white…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi is calming things down. The Congolese head of state has commented on the case of Vincent Karega, the Rwandan ambassador accused of denying the Congolese massacres in Kasika in southern France. Kivu, in 1998. Vincent Karega had relativized the responsibility of the Rwandan soldiers and rejected the content of the Mapping report as published by the UN High Commissioner. No question of expelling this diplomat, the president said in front of Congolese journalists…