SENEGAL – The municipality of Payar chooses Assane Dione for the municipal elections under...
Who is Assane Dione. Assane Dione is a young pan-African activist born on January 03, 1994 in Darou Salam in the...
IVORY COAST – Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé finally acquitted
The ICC Appeals Chamber confirms the decision of Trial Chamber I to acquit Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé of all...
RWANDA: Félicien Kabuga pleads not guilty
The alleged "financier" of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda appeared on Wednesday 11 November 2020 at the International Tribunal in The...
SENEGAL – Ousmane Sonko arrested for disturbing public order
The leader of the Senegalese opposition Ousmane Sonko has just been arrested, this Wednesday, March 03, 2021, by elements of the...
GABON – “Africa’s development will be done by women and youth” dixit Ms Rachel...
As part of UNESCO’s Africa Week for the 2022 edition, a week with the theme “Self-sufficiency, resilience, economic development in Africa”,...
SENEGAL – 3rd mandate: Mimi Touré raisonne Isméla Madior Fall and tance Me Oumar...
After his international tour against the third term, Aminata Touré’s speech was much awaited. Former Minister of Justice under Macky Sall, Aminata...
GABON: The National Assembly passes a law decriminalizing homosexuality
The Gabonese National Assembly has just approved a bill issued by the Executive that decriminalizes homosexuality. It was by a vote of 48...
IVORY COAST: Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé can leave Belgium under conditions
The International Criminal Court has just taken a decision long awaited by supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo and former Minister of Youth Charles...
BENIN – Trial of opponent Joel Aïvo opens on Thursday 15 July
The Beninese opponent, Joël Aïvo, faced the judge of the Court of Repression of Economic Offences and Terrorism (Criet). The trial opened...
SENEGAL: Parliament publishes list of ad hoc committee tasked with lifting Ousmane Sonko’s immunity
On Monday, 15 February, the Law Committee of the Senegalese National Assembly held its meeting to nominate the members of the ad...
IVORY COAST: Removal of the name of Charles Blé Goudé from the list of...
Former Minister of Youth, President of the Pan-African Congress for Justice and Equality of Peoples (COjep) Charles Blé Goudé is not on the provisional...
GAMBIA: The President Adama Barrow left Dakar on Thursday.
The Gambian President Adama Barrow left Dakar, the Senegalese capital on Thursday. This is the end of his stay outside the country. The Gambians...
CHAD – Unlimited strike of magistrates demanding a pistol to defend themselves
The situation is unprecedented. Chadian magistrates have declared an unlimited strike since 28 June 2021. For good reason, they demand more...
SANKARA TRIAL – 30 years in prison required against Blaise Compaoré
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The trial of the murder of Thomas Sankara, killed with twelve of his companions during a coup...
MAURITANIA – Wave of accusations against former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
The former Mauritanian head of state, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, is about to find himself in an intriguing situation. Arrested on Tuesday,...
IVORY COAST: Alassane Dramane Ouattara candidate in the presidential election of 31 October 2020
It is during the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Republic that President Alassane Dramane Ouattara through his message to...
SENEGAL – School dress project sparks controversy
The President of the Republic, Macky Sall, on the occasion of the Presidential Council for the Integration and Employment of Young...
SENEGAL – Release against Sonko: Mollah Morgun apologizes
Canadian-based activist Mollah Morgun apologizes to Pastef’s leader, Ousmane Sonko, for publishing a supposed photo of him. According to the rapper,...
SENEGAL – Ousmane Sonko: “Whatever happens, my parliamentary immunity remains intact”
Senegalese opponent Ousmane Sonko intends to resist until the end against a lifting of his immunity by the National Assembly which...
SOUTH AFRICA – Former President Jacob Zuma in prison
Former South African head of state Jacob Zuma spent his first night in prison. He surrendered to justice on Wednesday, July...
IVORY COAST – Attack on Grand Bassam in Côte d’Ivoire: four defendants sentenced to...
The Criminal Court of Abidjan on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment four accused of the jihadist attack in the seaside town...
SENEGAL : Barthelemy Dias in court.
On Wednesday, the public prosecutor asked the court to find Barthélémy Dias the mayor of Sicap Mermoz and his 5 acolytes guilty of "voluntary...
KENYA: Uhuru Kenyatta given top of the elections. Raila Odinga denounces fraud
The provisional results released by the Kenya Electoral Commission place outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta at the top of this high-risk election. The incumbent president...
MALI: death of former President Amadou Toumani Touré (media)
(Ecofin Agency) - The former president of Mali, General Amadou Toumani Touré, known as ATT, has died early on Tuesday after...
LIBYA: UN calls for rapid formation of an inclusive government
The inter-Ibyan political dialogue announced on Tuesday, 09 February, that it had reached an agreement on a new unified interim executive...
MALI: The country under blockade: ECOWAS demands “immediate recovery” of President IBK
The videoconference meeting of the Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), held on 20 August 2020, called for...
TUNISIA: President Kais Saied sworn in.
Out largely victorious in the second round of presidential elections on October 13, 2019 with 72.71 votes, President Kais Saied was sworn in this...
SOUTH AFRICA – Adetunji Omotola, African thought leader is contesting for the post of...
African thought leader and media personality Adetunji Omotola is contesting for the position of Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party South...
SENEGAL – «If Macky Sall wants to be a candidate, he will have to...
The leader of Pastef, Ousmane Sonko, spoke with a firm tone about a possible third candidacy of the President of the...
CAMEROON: End-of-year message from Morgan Palmer.
End-of-year message from Morgan Palmer, Founder of MP3: 2019, years of failure
My dear compatriots, Dear Cameroonian brothers and sisters,
2019 is coming to an end....
GUINEA – President Alpha Condé arrested by special forces
A blow that we probably did not feel coming.President Alpha Condé, 83, is in the hands of the putschists this Sunday,...
GAMBIA – Adama Barrow to run for second term
The Independent Electoral Commission of the Gambia announced on Sunday, December 5, 2021, the victory of outgoing President Adama Barrow in...
CÔTE D’IVOIRE: Guillaume Soro accused of attempted “coup”.
Ivorian justice has clarified this Thursday, December 26, 2019 on the accusations made against Guillaume Soro and the international arrest warrant issued against...
IVORY COAST – 77 years of Laurent Gbagbo, a life of thorns, combat and...
Article directed by Dan Singault de Blagouin from Abidjan.
This Monday, May 31, 2022, Laurent Gbagbo blows his...
SENEGAL – “It won’t happen again,” Sall says to protesters
The Senegalese head of state, Macky Sall, remains adamant. He spoke about the demonstrations that broke out in early March 2021 following...
