• The 34th African Cup of Nations

    has been in full swing in Ivory Coast since Saturday and gets to the heart of the matter on Friday January 19 with the second day of group stages.

    In the land of the Elephants, everything is still to play for and the favorites are not always celebrating like Ivory Coast, beaten by Nigeria.

    (The highlights of each day can be found every morning on France 24 and every evening on our channel.)

  • In the Comoros

    , tensions erupted after the announcement, Tuesday January 16, of the victory of outgoing Azali Assoumani in the presidential election.

    While the opposition contests the result of the election, it called on the population to demonstrate on Friday after two days of clashes which left one dead and six injured in the capital Moroni.

  • The party of the President of

    the Democratic Republic of Congo

    , Félix Tshisekedi, was declared the winner of the December legislative elections, according to preliminary results released on Sunday January 14.

    The re-election of Félix Tshisekedi was confirmed on Tuesday by the Constitutional Court but the opposition is still demanding the cancellation of the vote.

  • In

    Sudan

    , the fighting is gradually spreading to sites classified as UNESCO world heritage sites, deplored Tuesday January 16 the NGO Regional Network for Cultural Rights, sounding the alarm in particular for the remains of the kingdom of Kouch, old over 2,300 years old.

    Home to three times as many pyramids as Egypt, "its pyramid complex is one of the largest in the world", according to UNESCO. 

  • The Paris Court of Appeal rejected on Tuesday January 16 the appeals of three of the children of the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba, who contest their indictment in the judicial investigation on the Gabonese aspect of African "ill-gotten gains" in France, we learned from a judicial source.

Senegal: candidate Karim Wade renounces French nationality

Potential presidential candidates are organizing in

Senegal

.

Karim Wade, son and minister of ex-president Abdoulaye Wade (2000-2012), renounced his French nationality, which prevented his candidacy for the presidential election in February, we could read in the Official Journal dated Wednesday January 17 .

His dual nationality was being debated a few days before the final validation of the candidacies for the presidential election on February 25, in which he is one of the main competitors.

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CAN 2024: Lamine Camara, symbol of Senegalese football in full swing

After an XXL performance against Gambia during Senegal's first match in the African Cup of Nations, Lamine Camara, 20, lines up again on Friday against Cameroon.

With his enormous volume of play and the maturity of an old veteran, the Senegalese nugget is pulling up a new generation of players who have established themselves within Aliou Cissé's squad at CAN 2024. 

Senegalese midfielder Lamine Camara scores his team's second goal during the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) Group C football match between Senegal and Gambia in Yamoussoukro on January 15, 2024. © Issouf Sanogo, AFP

Oumar Mariko, Malian opponent: “Assimi Goïta and his comrades are obstacles to peace in Mali”

Oumar Mariko, president of the Malian political party African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (Sadi), gave an interview to France 24, while his party is threatened with dissolution by the authorities.

Castigating the ruling junta, the opponent believes that interim president Assimi Goïta and his entourage represent “obstacles to peace”.

The latter, who came to power "by the force of bayonets", do not benefit from "any confidence" among the Malians, he assures.

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One-on-one © FRANCE 24

With his “figuro-abstro” style, Alioune Diagne explores the theme of immigration

The daily life of the "modou-modou" - these African immigrant workers -, the groups of children encountered in the street or even the women in the markets in Senegal... Alioune Diagne evokes crucial societal themes with his brush.

Close to pointillism, he navigates between abstract and figurative.

After a notable exhibition during the last Dakar Biennale, he is currently exhibiting his work devoted to the theme of immigration at the Galerie Templon in Paris.

The artist was also selected to represent Senegal at the next Venice Biennale.

Encounter.

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Alioune Diagne, guest of Afrique Hebdo © France 24

Senegal: students and professors demand the reopening of the University of Dakar

“Eight months without classes is still catastrophic,” laments Serigne Fallou Guèye, a law student at Cheikh Anta Diop University (Ucad) in Dakar, who is now active in street trading.

The Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (Ucad), one of the largest in West Africa with more than 90,000 students, has been closed by the authorities since the demonstrations in June following the conviction of opponent Ousmane Sonko.

Students and professors are demanding “the reopening” of the university to “save the 2022-2023 academic year”.

But as the presidential election on February 25 approaches, the situation seems frozen.

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Senegal: students and professors demand the reopening of the University of Dakar, closed since June © AFP

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