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In Mali, shortly after the announcement of the change of government on Monday, May 24, the situation in Bamako became tense. Armed men went to the official home of Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. In the evening, a relative of the Prime Minister confirmed that the President and the Prime Minister were taken to Kati, the fortress of the ex-junta.…

Former President: It is now or never, please save Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says the ongoing negotiations in Mogadishu could save Somalia from sinking if only participants set the country's future instead of pursuing short-term political goals and expediency. Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, five federal leaders including Said Abdullahi Deni, Ahmed…

Three days before May 26, the new head of state's traditional investment day, political tensions are mounting as a new president should have taken office. However, Head of State Azali Assoumani, who has been in office since 2016, was able to fight for his own legacy and was re-elected in 2019, following a constitutional amendment in 2018.…

The plain scarcity of antiquated vaccines in Africa, the CFA franc dispute, the terrorist risk in Ghana, the navy transition in Chad. On these present matters, the top of state in Ghana provides an unique interview to RFI and France. Nana Akufo-Addo urges Africans to wake as much as Covid-19. If there's a "vaccine apartheid",…

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arrived in Bissau on Monday evening for an official round the clock official go to. He's the primary Portuguese president, 31 years after Mario Soares. as reported from Bissau, Allen Yero EmbaloIn Bissau-Guinea's reminiscence, a head of state has by no means had such a well-liked reception. The caravan…

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is in Bissau for a 24-hour official go to. If the go to is an element of the strengthening of the historic relations between Lisbon and Bissau, it's a chance for descendants of former troopers of the colonial military to say the "blood pension" owed to their dad and mom by the previous colonial energy.…

Somalia's president jumps Guelleh's inauguration within the midst of strained relations MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble arrived in Djibouti on Friday forward of President Ismail Omar Guelleh's inauguration on Saturday. Roble joins his Ethiopian and Rwandan colleagues, Abiy Ahmed and Édouard Ngirente, respectively President Muse Bihi of North…

Mahamat Idriss Déby, head of the Transitional Army Council in Chad, is on an official go to to Nigeria on Friday, Could 14. The son of former Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno was obtained at the top of the morning by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on the Presidential Palace in Aso Rock. as reported from Lagos, Liza…

Sentenced in absentia in 2018 to life in jail with 30 years uncompressed for tried coup, the previous governor of Azali Assoumani had left the nation earlier than he was nervous about justice after accusing the top of state of working dictatorially when he organized, in the midst of his time period, a constitutional referendum that may permit him to stay in energy for an additional two years.…

The French president despatched a letter to his Benin counterpart on Wednesday, Could 12. Emmanuel Macron sends his greatest needs to Patrice Talon, as nicely as to the folks of Benin, virtually a month after the affirmation of his re-election of the Constitutional Courtroom. France confirms that it stands by Benin in a number of areas and stresses the necessity for a dialogue with all actors after the…