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Somalia's president speaks to parliament after rejecting the time period MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's time period of workplace, President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, will converse to the Nationwide Meeting on Saturday after his two-year extension was broadly rejected by the nation's stakeholders and worldwide companions. Sources instructed Axadlethat the outgoing president in his…

President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, generally known as "Farmajo", will deal with Parliament on Saturday morning, 1 Could. The decrease home voted on April 12 to prolong its presidential time period by two years. An extension that was thought-about unconstitutional precipitated a number of days of collisions between the federal military and the opposition within the Somali capital.…

That is the primary interview with the Beninese president since his controversial re-election on April 11, within the absence of the opposition's heavyweights who couldn't resist him. Why are most of those opposition figures being prosecuted by the Benin judiciary? Now that he has been re-elected, is Patrice Talon able to forgive them? Is he planning a 3rd interval in 2026? In Cotonou he solutions questions from Christophe Boisbouvier from RFI and Marc Perelman from France 24 ..

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, underneath strain from his allies, referred to as for elections to be held after a day on Tuesday through which Mogadishu residents left their neighborhoods and feared additional armed clashes. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed "Farmajo" will converse to parliament on Saturday (Could 1) to "get approval for the electoral course of" and urge political actors to carry "pressing discussions" on learn how to conduct the vote, he mentioned. is finest recognized by its nickname…

The Somali capital Mogadishu continues to be underneath rigidity following Sunday's violence between opposition supporters and Somali forces. It was Somalia's President Farmajo's resolution to lengthen his time period by two years that ignited the powder. Decryption with Gérard Prunier, historian specializing within the Horn of Africa.…

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz went to the court docket in Nouakchott on Monday, April 26, on the summoning of the court docket's anti-corruption choose. Since March 12, ex-president Aziz and a dozen personalities, together with two of his sons-in-law and two of his former prime ministers, have been accused of embezzlement, corruption, waste and embezzlement of public property.…

Within the Central African Republic, President Faustin Archange Touadéra has previously week welcomed the nation's political and civil society actors in flip. The president was re-elected in December final yr after controversial elections, which had been disrupted by a coalition-armed group, the Coalition of Patriots for Change. The beginning of this dialogue had lengthy been requested by opposition…

Mohamed Farmajo's term, which expired in February, has been extended by two years. The decision sparked an uproar and was "condemned" on Thursday 22 April by the AU's Peace and Security Council, which will send a special envoy to try to get the country out of the crisis. While the country is facing a serious political blockade and the elections planned last year have still not been held, the lower house has allowed the head of state to remain in power for another two years. Despite the fact that his term of office expired…

The French oil group has suspended certain contracts with companies linked to its mega project for gas in Mozambique. This project has stood still since the attack launched in late March by jihadist groups against the city of Palma in the province of Cabo Delgado, about ten kilometers from the Total Group's facilities. The Frenchman has since evacuated his staff.…

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Tuesday praised the future role of the African Union in establishing an "electoral process" in his country, after requesting mediation in Kinshasa by the president of the AU, Congolese Félix Tshisekedi. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethMohamed Abdullahi Farmajo called on…