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Schools and universities will be closed for ten days. A measure motivated by an increase in new cases of coronavirus registered in recent weeks. Almost 159 cases have been registered in the last 24 hours. Since the pandemic began in March, Mauritania has experienced 9,000 cases of infection, including 7,900 cures and 181 deaths. The death toll has risen in recent days.…

In Mali, the Collectif des associations de jeunes du pays dogon (CAJPD), which brings together forty organizations, is launching a large food operation. The operation is called "Bol lèi", two bowls, in the Dogon language. Dogon country, an area in central Mali in the Mopti region, has been the scene of years of jihadist…

In Ethiopia, fighting continues in the Tigray region in the absence of independent witnesses. Federal troops are trying to take the region's capital and capture the leaders of the Tigrayan party that controls it, the TPLF. In the other provinces of the federation, and especially in the capital, there is growing concern among Tigrayans about the fear of arrest or ethnic retaliation.…

The massacre took place earlier this week in the northern Cabo Delgado region. Last Monday, bodies were found in a forest. It is in this province rich in hydrocarbons and bordering Tanzania that rebels have raged for three years, promising allegiance to the Islamic State group. At least five adults and fifteen teenagers have…

The presidential candidate on December 27, Martin Ziguélé, intends to influence the vote in the Central African Republic. Former Prime Minister Martin Ziguélé has long been critical of the Khartoum peace accords and the current election process. Despite these limitations, the leader of the Central African People's Liberation Movement (MLPC) intends to run for office. .

On Tuesday night, a bus from Mopti was targeted by armed men about thirty kilometers from Bandiagara, in Dogon country. The charge is heavy: eight dead. It is an area that has already been targeted in the last month by several jihadist attacks, and where the army has subsequently been accused of abuse. Of the thirty passengers…

The Electoral Commission will on Monday announce the preliminary official results of the presidential election on October 31. After several violent incidents and the political statements from the government and the opposition, fears of seeing the situation become more and more tense. Several observation missions are already delivering their conclusions on the vote on Saturday.…

What exit strategy from the Democratic Republic of Congo for MONUSCO? The Congolese government and the UN mission have submitted a working document to the Security Council allowing for the gradual withdrawal of peacekeeping forces and the dismantling of bases. With our special correspondent in Kinshasa, Sonia RolleyThe first…

Guineans voted for a president on Sunday, with 82-year-old incumbent Alpha Condé going through his longtime rival Cellou Dalein Diallo for the third time. Protection within the West African state ended Friday at midnight, limiting a tense political marketing campaign marked by insults traded between President Alpha Condé and his…

African countries and their creditors have their eyes set on Zambia, which in the coming weeks could become the first defaulted country since the Covid-19 crisis. Lusaka this week asked its creditors to postpone the deadlines for a tranche of three billion euros of loans in Eurobonds. At the same time, Zambia is reluctant to settle arrears of payments to its Chinese creditors. If there is no agreement, the country says it will no longer be able to pay its debt. The Zambian case highlights the inadequacy of the measures…