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the stays of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko

Axadle Editorial Desk
West Africa
The deadly remains of Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko were returned to Abidjan in Ivory Coast yesterday, March 13. The head of government died on Wednesday in Germany at the age of 56 from a dazzling cancer. The Ivorian president, the deceased family, officials, but also hundreds of anonymous people were present when the coffin arrived to pay tribute to the statesman.…

in Djugu, where uncertainty remains, the population seeks the protection of MONUSCO

Axadle Editorial Desk
West Africa
In Djugu territory, Ituri province, the situation is still tense. In December, the number of attacks attributed to Codeco militia increases and the population demands a strengthening of the security system. In some areas it leaves the villages and approaches the Monusco bases. As in Roe, about 70 km from Bunia, where almost 30,000 displaced people gathered near a peacekeeping position. Charlotte is 42 years old. Since June, she has joined the makeshift camp for displaced people around the temporary base for the UN mission…

Tunisia: ten years after the revolution, social anger stays the identical

Axadle Editorial Desk
North Africa
Ten years in the past, the spark of the Arab Spring erupted in Tunisia, in Sidi Bouzid, a disadvantaged village within the heart of the nation the place Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on hearth. Ten years later, within the area, social anger has not died, fairly the other. And the well being disaster solely exacerbated the signs. Dozens of cities are demonstrating to demand the promised jobs and funding.…

Barkhane: in 2020 “a very positive assessment” even if “everything remains fragile” according to General Lecointre

Axadle Editorial Desk
North Africa
French General François Lecointre returned on December 12 from a two-day inspection visit to Niger and Mali, his seventh visit to the Barkhane Force's Operational Theater. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces went to meet French soldiers and their partners from the Malian armed forces. The possibility of an overview of military operations one month before the anniversary of the Pau summit, 13 January, when a change in the format of French…

the dialog remains off when the opponents are released

Axadle Editorial Desk
East Africa
Since the meeting between Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and the leader of the united opposition, Henri Konan Bédié, on November 11, the two camps have been relatively quiet. Although tensions have fallen one step in the country, the election crisis, which has caused the deaths of at least 85 people, is far from resolved. On Friday, November 20, Henri Konan Bédié, chairman of the PDCI, officially announced that he would "suspend" this dialogue as long as the opposition cadres, still in prison, were not released. "I…

the remains of former president Nino Vieira were transferred to the martyrs’ cemetery

Axadle Editorial Desk
West Africa
Eleven years after his death, the remains of the former president of Guinea-Bissau and the hero of the war of independence against Portugal, Joao Bernardo Vieira, known as Nino Vieira, murdered in 2009, were transferred to the cemetery of martyrs, the Bissau-Guinean pantheon. Former President Joao Bernardo Vieira should have been buried in the Square of the Heroes of Independence, in Damura Fortress. President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has decided to rectify this injustice by transferring his remains to the Pantheon of…