• Beninese are called to the polls on Sunday to elect their deputies.

    Seven political parties, including three claiming to be from the opposition, are taking part in this election, four years after the last legislative elections organized in the country.

    The ballot was marked by a historically low turnout and followed by deadly repression.

  • An investigation was opened Monday in Burkina Faso after the discovery of the bodies of 28 people in Nouna, in the northwest of the country.

    According to a human rights organization, this massacre was perpetrated by Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP), army auxiliaries whose military junta wants to strengthen the workforce to fight against jihadist violence.

Conflict in Tigray: Ethiopia strives to consolidate a still fragile peace

Signs of normalization of relations between the authorities in Addis Ababa and the former rebel area of ​​Tigray have multiplied since the peace agreement signed on November 2.

These encouraging prospects do, however, raise some questions.

Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussein (left) and Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) representative Getachew Reda (right) sign the peace agreement on November 2, 2022 in Pretoria, South Africa .

© Phill Magakoe, AFP

In Chad, the government claims to have foiled an "attempt to destabilize"

The Chadian government on Thursday accused army officers of "attempting to destabilize".

The alleged perpetrators, led by human rights activist Baradine Berdei Targuio, have been arrested and charged.

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The "Senegalese skirmishers" will be able to return home without losing the minimum old age

The crushed destiny of the "Senegalese skirmishers", these men who fought for France, comes out of oblivion.

While they are the subject of the film "Tirailleurs", with Omar Sy, released Wednesday in France, the thirty members still alive of this former colonial artillery corps will finally be able to benefit from the payment of their minimum old age while living in their countries. respective.

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Forgotten heroes, the last Senegalese skirmishers will be able to receive their pension in the country © France 24

In Senegal, new demonstration to demand the release of journalist Pape Alé Niang

In Dakar, around 100 people gathered on Wednesday to demand the release of journalist Pape Alé Niang, returned to prison for two weeks for "information likely to harm national defense".

On hunger strike, the journalist is "extremely distressed", according to his lawyers.

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A demonstration demanding the release of Pape Alé Niang in Senegal AFP - SEYLLOU

Director Erige Sehiri defies clichés about Tunisian rural youth

In "Under the figs", director Erige Sehiri films the post-revolution and post-#MeToo generation, in Kesra, 170 kilometers from Tunis.

The film, which already stood out during the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes and received the Silver Tanit at the Carthage Cinematographic Days, will represent Tunisia in the race for the Oscar for best foreign film.

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