West Africa

The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…

We are voting this Sunday, July 18, in Sao Tome and Principe, a small African archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, near the equator. Santoméer is called to the election to elect his new president. A first round without illusion against the background of a pandemic and marked by foreign debt. Nineteen candidates are on the starting line, but not the incumbent Evaristo Carvalho, who is not running again.…

This Sunday, July 18, Jean-Luc Mélenchon begins a 4-day visit to Burkina Faso. France's insubordinate presidential candidate therefore intends to improve its position on the African continent. And the choice to go to Ouagadougou, the site of Emmanuel Macron's call for new relations between France and Africa, is of course not innocent.…

Malia's armed forces announced late Saturday night the kidnapping of three Chinese citizens and two Mauritanians working for construction companies on Malia's border with Mauritania. as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel The company consortium is responsible for paving roads and building bridges in Malian region Nara, located…

Senegal is facing a soaring Covid-19 case on Saturday 17 July, the positivity of those tested rises to more than 35% ... ahead of the major Muslim festival Tabaski, the Ministry of Health made several recommendations, especially to speed up the vaccination campaign and strengthen the screening system. Senegal, with a population…

The Court for the Suppression of Economic Crime and Terrorism on Friday rejected the request for the provisional release of the opponent Reckya Madougou, and the rejection decision was sent to his lawyers on Saturday. On July 9, the French lawyer Pierre Stasi went to Cotonou and submitted this request to his Beninese colleagues, given that "the file was empty and their client was placed in total isolation in the Missérété prison. as reported from Cotonou, Jean-Luc Aplogan The order was issued on Friday and announced to…

To mark his hundredth day in captivity and demand the release of Olivier Dubois, nearly 70 people gathered this Saturday, July 18, in Bamako for a sports walk. A discipline exercised by the independent journalist. Installed in Mali since 2015, he is the only French hostage known in the world since his abduction in Gao on April 8 by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims, a branch of the terrorist group…

This Saturday, July 18, the summit of the CPLP, the community of Portuguese-speaking countries, ended in Luanda. Angola took over the rotating presidency of this organization of nine member states, including Mozambique. The conflict in Cabo Delgado, in the far north of the country, where Total suspended its gas project after a jihadist attack in early April, was one of the summits, but no concrete…

France has just recognized the Covishield vaccine in its "health pass", a relief, as this serum, which is a copy of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced in India, is used in many countries. Traveling to France is therefore easier for Indians and many Africans who have been vaccinated, especially since the quarantine rules are easier for people who have been vaccinated.…

Four Guinean opponents - key leaders of Cellou Dalein Diallo's UFDG who have been imprisoned for several months - will benefit from this supervised provisional release this Saturday, July 17th. A freedom that allows them to seek treatment, according to a statement from Guinea's prison administration read in the Guinean state media.…