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a non-governmental organization condemns the distribution of campaign devices

Last campaign day this Friday before the presidential and legislative elections on Sunday. The timing of the last major meetings of the 13 presidential candidates. For REN-LAC, the national anti-corruption network, this campaign was marked by divisions in alarming proportions, according to the NGO, by food, money and even fuel. REN-LAC also condemns the distribution of campaign devices when the law…

MPS in campaign without his candidate Yacouba Isaac Zida

In view of the presidential election and the legislative election that will take place on November 22, MPS is leading a proximity campaign for Yacouba Isaac Zida in the absence of his candidate. In fact, the former transitional minister is living in exile in Canada. Announced several times in Ouagadougou, he has not yet returned to the country due to an arrest warrant for "abandonment in peacetime and…

Jerry Rawling’s death becomes a campaign issue

In Ghana, Jerry Rawling's death aroused popular sentiment. Less than a month after the presidential election, the two main political parties are vying for tributes to the former president. From our Accra correspondent,Since death of "JJ Rawlings"Went into Ghana a period of national mourning. The two main parties vying for the…

2020, a special year for the lychee harvest campaign

In Madagascar, lychee exporters have been living the most important eight days of the season since November 13, the opening date for the fruit harvest. The only real unknown: will Western buyers put litchi on the holiday table? Trucks, vans, wagons: a real broom of lychee is currently underway in Tamatave, eastern Madagascar. In less than ten days, 15,000 to 20,000 tons of the little pink fruit will pass through the only two roads in the city that converge towards the port. There, the cranes are busy filling the ship's…

gloomy start to the vanilla export campaign

The vanilla export campaign started a month and a half ago (September 15), but at the moment buyers are not killing with exporters from the Big Island, the world's largest producer of this spice. After years of high prices and peaked at $ 550 per. Kilo in 2018, the vanilla sector has seen a marked decline since last year. To avoid a sudden drop in prices in this volatile market, the Malagasy government has set a minimum export price of $ 250 per kilo. Despite this price halved compared to 2018, orders are currently few.…

the presidential campaign begins in a tense security context

On Saturday, October 31, the campaign for the presidential and legislative elections begins on November 22. 13 candidates including the outgoing president and one woman will win the election. This campaign is held in a tense security context. The country has registered nearly one million internally displaced people after attacks attributed to jihadists. Several parts of certain regions are in…

the issue of community violence raises the presidential campaign

In the midst of the election campaign, supporters of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo, demanding an end to the process, accuse the regime of using militias, the "microbes" of attacking opponents by laying in bed for societal violence. On the contrary, members of the ruling party reject these accusations and evoke deeper causes by talking about the clashes that occur during this presidential campaign.…