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Prices had risen by the end of the lockdown, as buses could only be half-filled to respect social distance. Despite a slight drop on October 14, they remained above prices before the coronavirus crisis. In Rwanda, the government on Wednesday night suspended a rise in transport prices that had sparked a wave of protests from the…

With the start of the Côte d'Ivoire presidential election, the city of Dabou, west of Abidjan, has in the last two days experienced one of the deadliest episodes since the start of the protest against the candidacy of 'Alassane Ouattara has a third period of violence that left at least seven dead and dozens wounded. as reported…

"The circles in Bankass and Bandiagara had been focused through the evening Monday to Tuesday by unidentified armed people, inflicting the deaths of 11 troopers and about 13 civilians," reviews the day by day L'Indépendant in Bamako. That is the heaviest toll recorded in a number of months within the middle of the nation in lower than 24 hours. (...) These simultaneous assaults got here after weeks of calm within the middle…

It's Christmas before its time on the Lagos Stock Exchange in Nigeria. On Tuesday, October 6, the index jumped over the thirty largest stocks by 5.7%, the second-best result in the last fifteen years. In the last month, the Nigerian stock market has been in good shape and has gained more than 13% as the country is going through a severe recession. Never before has the connection between the real economy and finance been so striking in Nigeria. As the country struggles with a recession synonymous with job losses and deep…

Farmers' reactions to the rise in the price of cocoa paid to Côte d'Ivoire producers are not uniform. While some are happy, others believe it is a first step. With our special correspondent in Yamossoukro, Stanislas Ndayishimiye The notice of increase in the price of cocoa paid to the producer in Ivory Coastranging from 825 to 1000 CFA francs per kilos, has made producers "very happy", estimates Jérôme Yao Kouakou, plants in Issia, in the midwestern Ivory Coast. Announced Thursday by President Alassane Ouattara, on…