In Senegal, 15 of the 20 candidates selected to run for the highest office want a presidential election in Senegal by April 2... The date is not chosen at random, it will be the end of Macky Sall's mandate. When will the Senegalese go to vote? Will the electoral process be overhauled? It's been unclear since the Constitutional Council's announcement.
Relations between Rwanda and DR Congo have continued to deteriorate since the new offensive by the M23 armed group in North Kivu 2 years ago, which Kigali is accused of supporting by the United Nations and Washington. The day after a mini-summit on the war in eastern Congo on the sidelines of the African Union summit, at which Presidents Félix Tshisékédi and Paul Kagamé were present, Rwanda says it is committed “to taking extraordinary measures to guarantee the security and stability of the region” in a press release.
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