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After boycotting the controversial 2016 presidential election, won by his former mentor Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mathias Dzon (73), finance minister between 1997 and 2002, will be a candidate in the March 2021 election, "for the good of the nation He therefore responded positively, on Saturday 21 November, to a request from the Alliance for the Republic and Democracy (ARD), an opposition platform, this time…

On Sunday, almost 6.5 million voters are called to the polls for a double legislative and presidential election in Burkina Faso. In a country where more than 40% of the population is between 18 and 30 years old, youth voting can be important in the election of the next president. Meeting with their student voters on one of the capital's largest campuses, Ouaga 1.…

Burkina Faso is eagerly awaiting the presidential election regardless of the difficult safety scenario. As with all West African presidential elections, we took this chance in Wathi to current a listing of the nation, making residents out there the biographies and applications proposed by the candidates. We had been pleasantly…

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…

In Burkina Faso, the marketing campaign for the presidential election and the election ends on November 22 on Friday night time. For the presidential election, 13 candidates are collaborating, together with the outgoing president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. ■ Eddie KomboïgoFor the primary time for the reason that fall of…

Two days earlier than the presidential election in Burkina Faso, the 13 candidates, who start one final marketing campaign day, are many to place safety on the middle of their guarantees. However this is not going to be the one lever on this election. Within the financial capital Bobo Dioulasso, many residents say they're deserted and remorse the abandonment of their metropolis. .

One other three days of campaigning in Burkina Faso forward of the primary spherical of presidential elections on Sunday, November 22. An election together with legislative elections. On the beginning line: 13 candidates, together with President Roch Kaboré, who's in search of a second time period, but additionally the opposition chief, Zéphirin Diabré, and Eddie Komboïgo, candidate for CDP for former President Compaoré, who lives in exile in Côte d'Ivoire. Over the past days of the marketing campaign, the ambiance is…

In the morning, I said this: the agreement between the FCC and Cach is not a refuge to protect all perpetrators of crime in our country. I mentioned the case of Fidèle Bazana , by Floribert Chebeya , by Thérèse Kapangala , by Rossy Mukendi and Maluku mass grave . This is encouragement to hate. This is the population's tension for violence. As for the Minister of Finance, ten days ago, he had to jointly sign an order with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And the Prime Minister had already…

Will the US presidential election change anything in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country where the Trump administration provided significant support to the new Congolese head of state against his predecessor? As for the presidency, we showed full confidence yesterday, Tuesday 2 November. Joe Biden or Donald Trump ... a relative of Felix Tshisekedi says he follows this election like everyone else, but after having assurances that Washington's line regarding the DRC would not change. Resumption of military…

In Guinea, the unsuccessful candidates for the presidential election on October 18, in the first round of outgoing President Alpha Condé, won, according to the preliminary results of Ceni, until Sunday night to lodge their appeal to the Constitutional Court. The institution was to rule before the end of the week by announcing the final results or canceling the vote. Until then, the UFDG, the largest…