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The Conference of Heads of State and Government of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) decided to suspend temporarily the application of the Convergence, Stability, Growth and Solidarity Pact. The decision was made at an extraordinary session by videoconference on 27 April 2020 to address the health crisis in WAEMU countries. According to […]
Togolese Head of State Faure Gnassingbé will be sworn in on Sunday, May 3, 2020, the President of the Togolese Constitutional Court, Aboudou Assouma, announced. Re-elected on February 22, 2020, he will officially begin his 4th term of office at the end of this ceremony, which will be done in the most sober way because […]
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic consequences in host countries will have a negative impact on migrants’ money transfers to Africa, which are expected to fall sharply in 2020, according to World Bank experts. The COVID-19 pandemic is a blow to the economy of the countries on the African Continent, the experts say. In 2019, […]
Moroccan health authorities have refuted the press reports claiming that the Kingdom has banned the exports of drugs to African countries, particularly during the current global health crisis caused by coronavirus pandemic. The Moroccan ministry belied the press report, labeling as “false and baseless” its claims, which seek to tarnish Morocco’s image and its health […]
“What is killing us isn’t coronavirus but war.” These were words of Mayor Ali Dolo, after terrorists attacked his community in central Mali. According to one of the victims, gunmen on motorbikes struck several villages near the town of Bandiagara in central Mali’s Mopti region on Tuesday. The assailants made off with some 500 head […]
A US diplomat in Sudan Thursday escaped a gun attack in capital Khartoum. The US official who has not been named was attacked by a gunman who fired at his car as he was on his way home, Turkish Anadolu news agency reports citing a diplomatic source who asked not to be named. The Sudanese […]
In Senegal, the Office of Economic Foresight is working on the development of a Covid-19 severity index, betting on statistics to draw lessons from the global management of the crisis. Since its creation in 2018, the Office has already developed a number of indicators that are supposed to measure, among other things, a country’s level […]
The member countries of ECOWAS have adopted a number of measures to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including devoting at least 15% of their annual budgets to strengthen health care systems, as they did during the Ebola epidemic few years ago. During a video-conference, chaired by President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou, the heads of state […]
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Wednesday ordered Côte d’Ivoire to suspend its arrest warrant for Guillaume Soro and to release 19 of his relatives who have been imprisoned for four months. The African Union institution based in Arusha, Tanzania, which had been seized in early March by Mr. Soro, former […]
The Cameroonian presidency admitted on Tuesday that 13 civilians had been killed by three soldiers and auxiliaries in a village in the north-western English-speaking separatist area in mid-February. The United Nations had revealed that dring the night of 13 to 14 February, 13 civilians, including 10 children (nine under the age of five) and two […]