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Regional elections in Cameroon will take place at the end of the week, on Sunday 6 December. A historic vote with indirect voting rights: even if they are provided for in the 1996 Constitution, this will certainly be the first time that regional councils are set up with regional presidents. This is the last step in the decentralization introduced by the government. But in Yaoundé, the capital, few…

In Ethiopia, fighting continues on Saturday in the province of Tigray, 700 kilometers north of the capital Addis Ababa. The federal army has launched an offensive there since Wednesday to regain control of the province, which is trying to secede. Parliament officially abolished the Tigray authorities on Saturday morning. as…