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SENEGAL: Lenine Nankassa Boucal wins 2020 Charles Biddle Prize in Canada
Born in Ziguinchor, Lenine Nankassa Boucal is a social entrepreneur and cultural worker based in Quebec since 2007. After travelling through...
BENIN: “Complaints don’t make our dreams come true” Reckya Madougou.
The former Keeper of the Seals, Reckya Madougou, has signed his 3rd book «Cure the Certainties». This book, co-written with the...
MAURITANIA: Duty to remember and refusal to forget
Thursday 6 November 1986 my first night in prison. Kaëdi Palace of Justice, Thursday, November 6, 1986, our first night in prison,...
SENEGAL: Aïssata Tall Sall 1st Woman in Foreign Affairs
The list of the new government is finally unveiled this Sunday, November 1, 2020. While some names are surprising, such as...
GUINEA: Opposition rejects the elections results
Alpha Condé wins with 59.4% against 33.5%! The opposition vigorously challenges these results, which it calls “forfaiture”. It intends to appeal...
GUINEA: Alpha Condé elected with more than 50% of the vote
Outgoing President Alpha Condé , candidate of the ruling People’s Rally of Guinea, the RPG, was elected at his own succession...
FRANCE: Deportation of 231 foreigners in an irregular situation and registered...
Following the assasinat by decapitation of Samuel Paty, professor of history at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the Yvelines, Gérald Darmanin, the minister of...
GUINEA: Presidential elections: 3 deaths following peaceful protests
On Monday, 20 October, candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo declared himself president-elect following the provisional results of the presidential election that took...
BENIN: FCFA 94 billion in inherited debts to workers
President Patrice Talon welcomes the progress made in paying down the debt to workers. Since 2016 out of a total of...
SENEGAL: Sophie Guèye wins Women’s Choice Awards Africa 2020
After receiving two awards in her country, Senegalese Sophie Guèye has just received another “Young Achiever of the year 2020” award...
ALGERIA: President Abdelmadjid Tebboune receives French Foreign Minister
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves le Drian was received by the President of the Algerian Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune Thursday,...
FRANCE : Jean-Yves Le Drian to travel to Algiers on 15-16...
Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, is visiting Algeria today. He will be received by the President of the...
EGYPT: Government wants to value education
The Egyptian government wants to promote distance education. 50 interactive programmes will be launched by the Egyptian National Institute for Governance...
SENEGAL: Dawda Faye signs with her single “Anymore”
It was on Friday October 9, 2020 that Senegalese-born artist Dawda Faye by her stage name D-Faye released her first single...
SENEGAL: Singer Youssou Ndour at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
The internationally renowned Senegalese singer and composer Youssou Madjiguène N'dour joined the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The artist is one...
TUNISIA: Dismissal of Walid Al-Zaidi
The Minister of Culture Walid al-Zaidi was thanked by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi this Tuesday, October 6, 2020. At issue: his refusal...
GUINEA: 75 girls from KPAAF school received scholarships
The company Guinée Games, the African Voluntary Foundation, the Minister of Public Works Moustapha Naité, the businessman Nasser Arabe and the...
CAMEROON: The literary CENE sets up the sponsorship of literary cafes
The Cameroonian lawyer, Flore Agnès Nda Zoa, founder of the association, the literary CENE will revolutionize things within literary CENE. Now,...
SENEGAL: “Africa, my Africa!” by Fatimata Diallo Ba
For our program "FOR YOU, IT'S WHAT AFRICA IS, we interviewed Fatimata Diallo Ba, Senegalese author. Here is what she replied....
BENIN: Kémi Séba responds to Egountchi Behanzin through a video
Beninese pan-Africanist activist Kémi Séba posted a video on September 28 in his social networks, a video response to Ogounchi Behanzin,...
SENEGAL/BURKINA FASO: Elijah and Yacouba between poetry, jazz, blues, traditional instrumental...
Senegal and Burkina Faso, the country of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Thomas Sankara, the man in the homeland or death we...
BENIN: “Healing certainties” by Reckya Madougou
Reckya MADOUGOU Former Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, Legislation and Human Rights Former Government Spokesperson Former Minister of Microfinance...
SENEGAL: D-Faye, the Senegalese artist who sets Texas on fire
D-Faye whose real name is Dawda Faye is a rising star of African pop music. Of Senegalese origin, the young artist...
SENEGAL: WOMEN’S VOICES: Media immunity: a male privilege?
Who is entitled to media immunity? Is the information exclusively male? How do the representations of women in the media contribute...
AFRICA: “For you, what is Africa” by Neega Mass
We begin our series of interviews with African men and women from the continent and the diaspora: journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, opinion leaders, political...
UNITED STATES: Zendaya has become a legend
Zendaya, became the youngest actress to win the Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama Series. The actress is a winner...
IVORY COAST: Press release : Guillaume Soro: The architect of the...
"It was following a letter that the decision was taken to allow OUATTARA to be a candidate". The President of Générations...
SENEGAL : The new novel of Marcel A. Monteil
The Senegalese author Marcel A. Monteil has just released his first book "Le mandate du chaos". Here are some powerful excerpts...
IVORY COAST: Guillaume Soro challenges the decision of the Constitutional Council
Guillaume Soro's candidacy was not validated by the Constitutional Council. The founder of Generation and People in Solidarity (GPS) will not...
IVORY COAST: Henri Konan Bédié candidate for the presidential election
Former President Henri Konan Bédié, leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), was officially invested on Saturday September 12,...
IVORY COAST: Guillaume Soro invested in the presidential election
It was during a Investiture Convention that Generation and Solidarity Peoples (GPS), the party of Guillaume Kigbafori SORO, invested this last...
DR CONGO: Aïssata Seck met the first 10 laureates for the...
The winners have arrived in Paris, the French capital since Friday, September 11, 2020. Ten of them are the new faces...
GUINEE: President Alpha Condé has submitted his candidacy
Outgoing President Alpha Condé submitted his candidacy this Thursday, September 3, 2020 to the Constitutional Court. Things are clear now. He...
SENEGAL: Akon lays foundation stone for “Akon City”
The American artist of Senegalese origin, Akon laid the foundation stone of "Akon City". This green city will be the first project of this...
SENEGAL: The State must go beyond the criminalization of rape and...
Since January 2020, rape and pedophilia have become crimes in Senegal, which means that they are finally recognized for what they have always been:...
