US President Kamala Harris has begun her African tour in Ghana. She met with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo in Accra and announced a new $139 million bilateral aid package to finance economic, commercial, cultural and health initiatives, including a malaria control programme, and will then visit Tanzania and Zambia. our correspondent in Washington Matthieu Mabin explains the stakes of this tour.
Senegalese are facing a sugar shortage. A food of mass consumption, which remains is not found especially during this month of Ramadan, in several places of the capital. Sarah Sakho went to the Dakar Market.
Despite the anti-saching law adopted in 2014, the scourge of plastic pollution persists in Niger. The capital is invaded by plastic waste. The consequences for livestock are increasingly dangerous. Sheep, cows, dromedaries, which swallow these plastic bags, die in large numbers every year. Our correspondent Harold Girard reports.
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