Journal de l'Afrique - Algeria eliminated from the CAN: "it's a total failure", recognizes Djamel Belmadi

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meanwhile won his duel outsiders against Sierra Leone to assume second place in Group E.

concluded Thursday the head group stage Group F by beating 2-0 Mauritania without be worried, unlike

, also qualified but beaten at the end of the suspense by Gambia 1-0.

In

, a video has reignited the controversy over police violence. Published in early January, it made the rounds of social networks: we see the police torturing three young detainees, in broad daylight and in plain sight. Two of them lost their lives as a result of this abuse. The families of the victims and civil society denounce systematic violence and blunders. Reportage in Brazzaville by Rosie Pioth. 

In

, the municipal and departmental elections, several times postponed, will finally be held this Sunday.

This election is the first since the re-election of Macky Sall and in the opinion of all, acts as a dress rehearsal before the presidential election of 2024. Some town halls will be particularly disputed.

This is the case of Zinguinchor in Casamance in the south of the country, where the opponent Ousmane Sonko is a candidate and of course of Dakar the capital and one of the last strongholds of the opposition.

The report by Sarah Sakho and Elimane Ndao.

Editor: Célia Caracena 

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