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In reference to the Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Violence towards Girls, a marketing campaign was launched to popularize the regulation criminalizing rape and pedophilia on 25 November. It can run till December 10 as a part of the # 16joursDActivism towards violence towards girls launched by the UN in partnership with the Senegalese Ministry of Girls, Household, Gender and Baby Welfare.…

Continuation and the second a part of our collection concerning the lychee countryside of Madagascar, within the port metropolis of Tamatave which lives its final days in a really brief season, lower than 15 days, however actually intense. On the subject of tonnage, Madagascar shouldn't be such a giant producer of lychee…

During the launch of the "10 days to sign" campaign, Amnesty International this year highlights the case of Germain Rukuki, a human rights activist in Burundi who was arrested in July 2017.

In Uganda, opponent Bobi Wine was released on Friday, November 20, after two days in police custody. He was arrested on Wednesday while fighting for the presidential election in January 2021. The announcement of his arrest sparked protests on Wednesday which were violently suppressed by the security forces. According to a recent police report, there are 37 dead and more than 45 seriously injured. Violence is condemned by civil society organizations. The campaign for the presidential election has just begun and several…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Tolls are deteriorating after an attack on Wednesday in the north of the country. Fourteen Burkinabè soldiers were killed in the middle of the presidential and team election campaign on November 22. as reported from Ouagadougou,Yaya BoudaniThe attack took place between Beldiabe and Tin-Akoff. "The attackers were exaggerating…

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.…