Three weeks ago, he took power in a coup d'etat by overthrowing the only elected president of Burkina FASO, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
Today, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is President, Head of State and Chief of the Armed Forces after being invested by the country's Constitutional Council.
Al-Shabaab jihadists launched several simultaneous attacks on police stations in Mogadishu.
The balance sheet reports at least 2 dead and about twenty wounded.
These attacks take place while the country is plunged into a deep political crisis which opposes the Prime Minister to the President.
The latter whose mandate expired last year without having succeeded in organizing new elections.
In Ethiopia, it is the climatic conditions that are worrying.
The Horn of Africa is facing the worst drought in 30 years.
The United Nations estimates that 13 million people are at risk of hunger.
More than 1.5 million animals are believed to have died in the region due to lack of water and pasture.
Ethiopia is among the most affected countries, particularly the Somali region, where pastoral communities have lost their livelihoods.
In Benin, the government had launched a war against clandestine healthcare centers a few years ago.
Today, the hunt for health centers continues.
At the beginning of January, about twenty clandestine health centers were closed in the country.
Even more worrying, there is also a whole network of nursing assistants who pretend to be doctors.
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