Senegal electrification

Côte d’Ivoire: Trial of suspects of 2016 attack starts next week

Eighteen people arrested in connection with the 2016 attack in Grand-Bassam that caused the death of 19 people will stand trial next week on charges of ‘acts of terrorism in association with a collective organization’, reports say. Three young assailants stormed Etoile du Sud hotel in the seaside resort, some 40 kilometers east of Côte […]

Signing the “No to Trump” Petition Might be Costly for the Polisario

The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject President Donald Trump’s policy towards President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela. Actually, the separatist front’s representative in Cuba signed at the embassy of Venezuela in Havana an anti-trump petition, part of the […]

Burkina Faso extends emergency measures for another year to fight terror

Burkina Faso announced an extension of the emergency measures for another year as the war against terrorist groups seems yet to be won. The measures include summoning people aged 18 to fight and entailed curbing freedoms and forming local defense groups. Terrorist activity worsened under-development in the poor country and pushed 2 million people out […]