Politics

In Africa, the participation of the women in the decision-making authorities and process is still low. Yet, African women have the potential to be valued. They have the capacity of occupying decision-making posts which are considered as the privilege of the men. It is what Odette N’Guessan Yao Yao, Ambassadress …

The Ghanaian president, John Dramani Mahama, also the serving chairman of the ECOWAS, expressed on Monday, 23rd March 2015, his wish to see elections taking place in peace in Nigeria. He made this declaration at the end of a meeting with all the stakeholders in these elections, namely the outgoing …

The term of the south-Sudanese President, Salva Kiir that would normally come to an end in next July was extended by the Parliament on Tuesday, 24th March for three more years, meaning till 2018. That is what is going to weaken more the peace negotiations already at a standstill. The …

The South African Head of State, Jacob Zuma, annually gets the tidy sum of 211 375 euros; what makes of him the best paid leader on the continent, and standing thus in the 4th position at the world level. It is the American channel, CNN that publishes the news in …

Ivory Coast is a « model » regarding economic development, declared Mrs. Helen Clark, Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on Wednesday at the opening of the international conference on emergence of Africa, in the presence of the Heads of States of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, and of his Senegalese …

The celebration of the women month was the opportunity for the leader of the Female Executives Union of Togo (UFCa) to express their commitment beside the best Togolese female students. The association organized on 16th March at the University of Lomé, a meeting with female students placed under the theme: …

About forty countries working for emergence as well as about twenty institutions and heads of States are expected from 18th to 20th March at the first international conference on the emergence of Africa that will be held in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan. The announcement was jointly made on Thursday …

Set up in December 2014, the national reconciliation and reforms commission appointed Bishop Paul Ouédraogo, archbishop of Bobo – Dioulasso, as its chairman. It was at the end of the first session of the aforementioned commission held on Tuesday in Ouagadougou. The works were supervised by the dean, Joseph Kabré. …

Last Wednesday, the Burkinabe transition government authorized the exhumation of Thomas Sankara’s corpse to be formally identified. The former president of Burkina Faso was murdered 15th October 1987 during a coup d’Etat that brought Blaise Compaoré to power. Seized by the family of Captain Sankara, the African Court of human …

The Ivory Coast president, Alassane Ouattara, in official visit in the region of Nawa at Soubré in the Southwest, promised on Thursday « to chase » until « eliminating » road attackers who rage in this agricultural production zone. « Your region being rich, road attackers, especially during the period of the cocoa campaign, attack …

The Equato-Guinean president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema travelled to N’Djamena, Chad where he met his counterpart, Idriss Déby. « We shall succeed in eradicating Boko Haram, totally crushing them with in the coming months« , declared the Equato-Guinean Head of State. « We are trying to coordinate and cooperate with other countries, because if …

The inflexible Robert Mugabe makes the news again with a new strong declaration. Apart from the fact of having announced that elephant meat will be used for his dish for his 91 years celebration on the coming 28th February, the old lion of Harare declared that Africa would withdraw itself …

The date set for the presidential election in Togo is finally known. It will take place on 15th April of this year according to an order made on Tuesday during the Council of Ministers, exceptionally held in Pya in the district of Kara situated at 430 km in the North …

The e-commerce should be more valued in Senegal, declared last Friday in Dakar, Mr. Alioune Sarr, the Minister of the Trade during a press conference. Mr. Sarr met the journalists at the end of a visit of the premises of the Trade Point Senegal foundation and a training workshop for …

Ivory Coast wants to make up its deficit in digital maturity in order to be at the forefront of the information and communication technologies (ICTS). The Ivorian government has just launched an ambitious project called « One citizen, one computer + an internet connection« . The launching ceremony was chaired on Thursday …

The Nigerian Nobel prize of literature, Wole Soyinka, is one of the Nigerian personalities who seldom express themselves on the national current events. And if he decides to do it, it implies that the situation is explosive. In fact, in front of the exactions by the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, …

The Equatorial Guinean president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, is honored with the title of the Man of peace 2014. It is the Issa Hayatou foundation that appointed him within the framework of its prestigious prize formerly called the Trophy of peace and that becomes the « Issa Hayatou Trophy of Peace« . …

The Malian Head of State, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta alias IBK, will personally chair the 15th edition of the Forum of Bamako which opens next Thursday in the Malian capital. Space of high-level reflection, the Forum of Bamako gathers every year, hundreds of intellectuals, business managers and political leaders willing to …

Elections are planned this year in several countries of the sub-region of which Burkina Faso. And the preparations are on good way in the country of the honest people. With the prospect of these electoral terms, the Burkinabe government decided to launch a vast operation of free provision of birth …

The West African countries leaders appreciated the postponement of the general elections in Nigeria, calling on all political actors to respect the decision from the electoral commission of this country, declared on Monday in a press release from the commission of the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS). …

In spite of the sanctions preventing Robert Mugabe to travel to the European Union, the new serving chairman of the African Union can go there provided that he travels to represent the organization; indicated at the end of last week, Catherine Ray, spokeswoman of the diplomatic department of the EU. …

The edition 2015 of the Index of Economic Freedom appoints the Mauritius Island, the « most liberal » country regarding economy in Africa. This index ranks countries according to their performances in four domains: the rule of law, the efficiency of the regulation, the strength of the government and the opening of …

The President of transition, Michel Kafando, revealed his monthly salary during a meeting with his citizens living in Ethiopia on 29th, outside the 24th summit for the Heads of States of the African Union, reported Burkina24. He declared to have an average monthly salary of 1 500 000 FCFA. He …

The Zimbabwean Head of State, Robert Mugabe, was appointed on Friday, 30th January by his peers in meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as serving chairman of the African Union (AU). He thus succeeds to his Mauritanian counterpart, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, who took the lead of the Union in January, 2014. …

The 24th summit of the Heads of States and Governments of the African Union (AU) opens on Friday, 30th January in the Ethiopian capital town, Addis Ababa. About fifteen Heads of States takes part in this meeting among whom the South African, Jacob Zuma, the Cameroonian, Paul Biya, the Chadian, …

In South Africa, the reopening of Parliament in two weeks promises to be eventful. Julius Malema, the populist leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) threatens to sit « in shorts » if he is prevented from wearing his red worker’s uniform. In fact, the 25 members of the EFF sit in …

Togo wants to modernize and revolutionize the ICTS sector. Thus, the ministry of the Post Offices and the Digital Economy initiated on 20th January of this year, a training workshop which has for venue, the premises of the ministry managed by Cina Lawson (photo). It was in the presence of …

The announcement was made on Friday, 23rd January by the UN Mission for the stabilization (MINUSMA). Well, for the first time, Mali will organize elections in order to choose the regional council chairmen. « For the first time in Mali and within the framework of the advanced decentralization, regional council chairmen …

Considered as the 4th power in a country, the press its role to play during pre-election periods. And the role that is assigned to it strongly impacts on the progress of the elections all over the world, mainly during the promotional campaign by the various candidates, enrolment, voting, vote counting …

Post electoral crisis prisoners in Ivory Coast will soon join their families, close relations and friends. Up to about fifty of them have just been released on bail since last Wednesday. The announcement was made through a press release from the Public prosecutor of Ivory Coast. A decision that shows …