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The eighth edition of the Nollywood Week festival starts on Thursday 6 May and will take place completely online, a symbol of a cultural sector that is being undermined by the pandemic. The festival had to be canceled last year due to Covid-19. For this first virtual edition, four previews and about thirty films are shown, and many changes as well, a bit like Nigerian film that continues to adapt.…

To ensure that the battle towards the insurgency to not change into a enterprise that they might use to legitimize an indefinite presence at Chad's helm, the army energy in Ndjamena should someway cease it and shortly. After a day of violent repression, Emmanuel Macron revised downward what may very well be seen as France's…

Severe thunderstorms hit the Central African capital last weekend and knocked down several pylons that connect the only power plant to the city. As a result, more electricity, difficulties in accessing water ... A particularly uncertain situation, but which should be improved in the next few days. Reached by telephone on…

Seven candidates are operating, together with President Idriss Déby Itno, who has been in energy for greater than 30 years. The pinnacle of state leaves the hyper-favorite within the face of a really divided opposition. However what are the expectations of the inhabitants? With our particular correspondent in Ndjamena,…

One week before the first round of presidential elections in Chad, groups of young people tried to march in several districts of the capital for a ninth Saturday of mobilization against a new mandate from head of state Idriss Déby Itno. These marches, banned by the authorities, are spreading rapidly. as reported from…

In Chad, dozens of party leaders and members of civil society were arrested this Saturday, March 27, while protesting against a sixth term by the head of state, Idriss Deby Itno, before being released at the end of the day. This eighth week of demonstration responded to the call for general dissatisfaction launched by the opposition and civil society associations. Some districts in N'Djamena were upset this Saturday morning and then in the late afternoon by protesters with clear slogans: "No to the sixth term!" No to the…

Speakers on Somalia's resumption of elections next week in Mogadishu's source MOGADISHU, Somalia - The leaders of the federal government and the federal states are expected to meet in Mogadishu next Sunday to discuss the country's long-standing electoral conflict. A source close to the presidency told Axadlethat mediation from international partners has managed to persuade the…

In the Central African Republic, the situation was volatile, this Sunday 20 December. It was quiet in the capital Bangui and this morning the residents moved around. But the pressure is increasing in the city. The positions, especially the coalition-armed groups that want to prevent the legislative and presidential elections next Sunday, seemed to be blurred last night.…

In Senegal, a Dakar Trend Week minimalist was held on December 12 and 13 because of the "worrying" improvement of Covid-19 within the nation, which bolstered the restrictive measures. Throughout a single large parade below the baobabs, in Nguékhokh, 80 km south of the capital, the illicit African vogue occasion welcomed about twenty designers. Most of them have offered "sluggish vogue" collections that…

Why instead of serving to build the future of nations, alliances between parties and politicians, in our Africa, they are so often formed to destroy opponents who were allies yesterday and will be again tomorrow, to serve to destroy others opponents, old friends themselves? "In Côte d'Ivoire, all politicians are jokers! ...So…