Also in the news: in Chad, just two months before the presidential election, the submission of candidacies opens this Wednesday, March 6 at the Registry of the Constitutional Council, and until March 15.

The list of candidates will be published on March 24.

Finally the All African Games will open in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on March 8, 2024. Apart from the glory of hosting the continent's elite sporting festival, Ghana also hopes to use it as a springboard to qualify more athletes for the Paris Olympics in June this year.

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