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Thursday, 21 January 2021

respect your elders

Somalia: Why clan elders are vital in launching talks with Al-Shabaab

The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab insurgent group and the Somali government have remained locked in a violent stalemate for years. ...

Checkmate? / Political Manoeuvres

Côte d’Ivoire : How much influence can Soro wield despite his distance?

In exile, the former president of the National Assembly maintains his strategy: by taking a tough stance and refusing to give in to Alassane ... Ouattara. But will he be able to maintain his position on the Ivorian political chessboard, despite the distance?

Wednesday, 20 January 2021

New faces of government

Côte d’Ivoire: How is President Ouattara preparing his future government?

President Ouattara is expected to form his next government after the legislative elections scheduled for 6 March. ...

music under lockdown

2020: A great year for Nigerian Afrobeats?

The year 2020 will not be forgotten in a hurry. A leap year ushering in the Covid-19 pandemic which has claimed millions of lives globally and ... has left the world’s economy in tatters.

abiy's dilemmas

Is Ethiopia coming together or falling apart?

Abiy and his Amhara supporters are in the ascendancy - but Ethiopia’s future is by no means assured. Nominally in an effort to restore law ... and order, the federal government led by Ethiopia’s peace prize-winning premier is engaged in a brutal conflict with the defiant erstwhile leaders of Tigray region.

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photo exhibition

‘Congo in Conversation’: A visual journey by Congolese photojournalists

Currently available online and in print, a “Congo in Conversation”-themed exhibition will be on display in Paris through 27 January. Touching ... on issues such as the environment, epidemics and youth activism, a dozen DRC-born photojournalists show their version of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Demonstration by descendants of Moorish slaves in Nouakchott

tough nut

Mauritania: ‘Some of our neighbours have a bigger slavery problem than we do’

The president of Mauritania’s human rights commission, Ahmed Salem Bouhoubeyni, talks about the organisation’s efforts to root out slavery ... in the country. Despite being illegal since 1981, slavery continues to be a persistent problem in Mauritania and the country is regularly criticised on this front by international organisations and NGOs.

gone girl

Senegal : What French investigators know so far about Diary Sow’s disappearance

The Senegalese student Diary Sow, who until recently was attending preparatory classes at the Parisian secondary school Louis-le-Grand, disappeared ... voluntarily for reasons that are still unclear. That has been the conclusion reached by the French investigators assigned to the case.

Divided we fall

Benin: President Patrice Talon’s re-election bid faces little threat from a divided opposition

Rather than uniting ahead of the April presidential elections, Benin's opposition is splitting and weakening. ...

Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Sudan Ethiopia

The crisis continues

Can Ethiopia heal after the TPLF killings? ‘We cannot bury everyone’ says ENDF

Across Tigray Region, sporadic fighting and looting continues, while 4.5 million people remain dependent on humanitarian assistance says the ... United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Ethiopia’s Human Right Commission.

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