The Constitutional Court of Niger yesterday validated the provisional results of the first round of the presidential election,

in Niamey.

Unsurprisingly, the duel between Mohamed Bazoum and Mahamane Ousmane is confirmed for the second round scheduled for

February

.

Mohamed Bazoum is credited with 39.30% of the vote.

He is followed by the former president, Mahamane Ousmane, with 16.98% of the vote.

The campaign for the second round is therefore launched

the games remain open,

Although the candidate Mohamed Bazoum is a heartbeat from victory, given the results of the first round which place him well in the lead (with 22 points in advance), however, this abyssal gap does not guarantee him a victory flawlessly on

February

, especially if the main candidates defeated in the first round such as Seini Oumarou, Albadé Abouba and Ibrahim Yacouba are united behind Mahamane Ousmane, in a country where the identity variable takes precedence over political programs in the choice of voters.

We can therefore understand the almost surreal optimism of Mahamane Ousmane,

Le Pays

, who dreams of winning back through the ballot box the power he lost by arms in 1996

And in the camp opposite, that of Mohamed Bazoum, we do not sleep on our laurels

: negotiations would have started behind the scenes as soon as the results of the first round were announced in order to obtain even opportunistic rallies from political opponents, who would allow him to turn the test in exactly three weeks.

faced with a significant upsurge in contamination since early January

"

to walk the streets of Accra, the capital, one would however quickly forget the existence of the global pandemic

: the mask is rarely worn, the shops and markets are open and at night, the party continues in the crowded bars. .

In

2020, we thought we knew that Covid-19 mainly killed the elderly

: in Ghana, half the population is under 21 years old.

And, in recent days, anxiety has begun to creep in on the youth, who had let themselves be lulled by a feeling of invincibility.

despite strict control, Rwanda is beginning to be overwhelmed

Faced with a second wave of Covid-19 much more virulent than the first, the authorities decided, two

weeks ago, to reconfine the capital, Kigali.

The rest of the country is subject to a 6

p.m.

.

A macabre month for Senegal,

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Enquête

Tanganas, those popular restaurants where you can eat quickly and inexpensively, dibiteries, where meat is grilled over a wood fire, and other fast food, are hard hit.

Forgotten in the framework of the resilience plan during the first wave, suffocated by the second wave of restrictive measures, the managers of these small street businesses implore government support for their survival.

Fespaco, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, the Mecca of African cinema since 1969, will not welcome, this year, its thousands of visitors, national and international,

The Fespaco, which was to take place from

February

to

March

, is postponed to a later date.

The Covid-19 has been there, and its second wave, which is putting Africa to the test, panicking the counters of confirmed cases and deaths, does not bode well.

And we still hope for the vaccine, which is difficult to implement on the continent.

The virus is there,

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and it is not cinema

!