Tag: Africa
UN concerned about lack of funding for small-scale farmers to adapt
While the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) publishes its annual report on adaptation to climate change on Thursday, November 7, another UN agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),…
emotion after the sentencing of five influencers to prison sentences
Emotion is struggling to subside in Tunisia, where five influencers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one and a half to four and a half years in prison. Together,…
UK sanctions Russian Africa Corps mercenaries
The British Foreign Office announced, on November 7, 2024, sanctions against several groups of Russian mercenaries in Africa, including Africa Corps, considered the successor to Wagner, a first for a…
the fifteenth biennial of contemporary African art opens in Dakar
From November 7 to December 7, 2024, Dakar hosts the 15th edition of the biennial of contemporary African art, Dak’Art. Having become a real meeting place for artists on the…
General elections in preparation in Mali?
In Mali, the transition period has officially ended on March 26, 2024. More than four years after the military coup of August 2020, no date has been officially set for…
a tribute to the intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death
It was ten years ago, the Tunisian intellectual Abdelwahab Meddeb died in Paris on November 5, 2014. A decade after his death, this figure from both shores, born in Tunis…
many reactions in Africa, but mixed memories
In the United States, Donald Trump won the presidential election. The Republican is offering himself a second term in the White House. This American election is, of course, followed all…
early legislative elections postponed, for political and institutional reasons
In Guinea-Bissau, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo formalized on Monday November 4 the postponement of the early legislative elections initially scheduled for November 24. As a reminder, he dissolved Parliament in…
Sudan ends two memorandums of understanding signed with UAE before war
Sudan is distancing itself from the United Arab Emirates economically. Several official sources suggest that the government is in the process of terminating several protocols of economic investment agreements signed…
the lawyer denounces the lack of progress in the investigation
After the activists Mamadou Billo Bah and Oumar Sylla (alias Foniké Menguè), still actively sought by their relatives, the kidnapping of Saadou Nimaga leads to a new investigation which is…