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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…

From this Wednesday, October 14, until October 20, Ivorians registered to vote will be able to collect their ballot papers at their polling station. 17 days before the presidential election, the election commission says it is "ready". The opposition, which called for civil disobedience, has not yet launched its exact slogans, and its two candidates doubt their participation if the election actually takes place. as reported from Abidjan, As of this Wednesday, 7.5 million registered voters can theoretically go to the…

According to the Tigray regional government since Monday, the government of Addis Ababa is unconstitutional. October 5 should have marked the start of the new term in the federal parliament, but the election was postponed. The state of Tigray therefore wants a transitional government pending the vote. Getachew Reda is a member of the executive committee of the TPLF, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, which runs the region. According to him, from Monday there will be no more federal government, that is, no more…

In front of the members of his party, the United Hearts Movement, Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéraa announced on Saturday his candidacy for the presidential election scheduled for December 27 in the Central African Republic. "It is a heavy responsibility. A very heavy responsibility. I agree to be your candidate, ”the head of state declared. Évariste Ngamana, chief rapporteur and spokesman for the MCU, which held its first congress there, answers RFI's questions. .