• Burkina, Mali and Guinea, three countries suspended from ECOWAS and the African Union after successive takeovers by the military in 2020, 2021 and 2022, wished Thursday the lifting of their suspension from these organizations.

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week toured several African countries.

    In Mali, he promised on Tuesday Moscow's help to the countries of the Sahel against the jihadists, a promise he reiterated on Wednesday for Mauritania.

    Finally, the head of Russian diplomacy on Thursday praised the operations of the paramilitary group Wagner in Sudan.

  • New upheaval in relations between Algeria and France.

    Algiers announced on Wednesday that it had recalled its ambassador to France, Said Moussi, "for consultations".

    In question, "the clandestine and illegal exfiltration" of the Algerian activist and journalist Amira Bouraoui.

    The latter assured that her departure for France is not "an exile" and that she will be "back very quickly" in Algeria.

  • President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a state of national disaster on Thursday to try to stem the energy crisis in South Africa.

    The country – the first industrial power on the African continent – ​​has been experiencing power cuts for months, which can go up to almost 12 hours a day.

Abiy Ahmed in Paris: discreet but pragmatic French diplomacy in Ethiopia

On the strength of the peace agreement signed on November 2 between Ethiopia and Tigray, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed began a European tour on Monday intended to relaunch his relations with the European Union.

With a discreet passage in Paris, which seems to have revived the good economic understanding of before the war between France and Ethiopia.

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In Ivory Coast, more than a third of women are circumcised

On the occasion of the International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation, Monday, direction Côte d'Ivoire where more than a third of women are victims.

The writer Hami Traore, herself circumcised at the age of 11, fights against this illegal practice by writing books as well as in the field with her NGO.

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Sudan: artists engaged in the sights of the junta

When the revolution breaks out in Sudan in 2019, paintings appear to praise democracy and freedom.

They marked the younger generation after decades of censorship under Omar al-Bashir.

And the artists have remained mobilized to express their thirst for freedom after the October 2021 coup. They fight peacefully, between demonstrations in the streets of Khartoum and artistic creations.

Committed artists are repressed by the junta of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane.

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"They hit and mistreat us": in Senegal, the slave life of foreign workers

In Senegal, President Macky Sall has undertaken major works to build a new town about thirty kilometers from the capital, Dakar.

Diamniadio will eventually host the various branches of government, the UN headquarters, universities and also stadiums meeting international standards.

A titanic project that requires a large workforce and attracts immigrants from all over West Africa in search of jobs. 

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