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Election Results: Biden defeats Trump and wins the presidency

Sudan and Algeria, new areas of interest for American diplomacy in Africa

Ivory Coast: Bédié calls for “civil disobedience”

Tunisia: Ahmed Ben Salah, former minister of President Bourguiba, died

Ivory Coast: Guillaume Soro calls on the opposition to block against Alassane Ouattara

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South Africa: MP Kenny Motsamai arrested and released on bail

South African police confirmed that EFF MP Kenny Motsamai was arrested and charged during demonstrations against the "racist" Clicks ad in Evaton. Vishnu Naidoo said Motsamai was arrested in front of the Clicks in Evaton near Sedibeng on...

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Guinea Presidential Election: The main opponent is playing on two fronts

BREAKING NEWS. Cellou Dalein Diallo will be a candidate in the election of October 18 while continuing to support the peaceful demonstrations against the third mandate of Alpha Condé. "I'm running for the presidential...

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Tunisia: Terrorist Attack on National Guards in Sousse

The attack targeted a National Guard patrol in Sousse, a seaside resort in the east of the country. Another member of the Law Enforcement Forces was wounded. A member of the National Guard (the equivalent of the gendarmerie) was killed...

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Three African personalities in the race for the WTO presidency

Eight candidates are in the running to regain the leadership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the departure of Director-General Roberto Azevedo. World trade is at a standstill because of COVID-19. The prospect of a "no-deal" and a trade war between the United...

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Belarus: Dozens arrested during a large opposition demonstration

Dozens of people were arrested on Sunday by Belarusian police trying to break up an opposition demonstration against the controversial re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko. The demonstrators are contesting the victory of Alexander Lukashenko, 66 years old, 26 of whom...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Resigns Due To Health Reasons.

He has been on the job since the end of 2012 and has been fighting ulcerative colitis, a chronic disease, for several years. Political thunderstorm in Japan. Aged 65, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign on Friday, August 28, for...

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International sanctions against Iran: New disavowal for the United States at the United Nations

Indonesia, as President of the Security Council, justifies this rejection by the lack of consensus among the fifteen members of the body. But the United States does not admit defeat. On Tuesday, August 25, the United States was once...

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Congo: Former President Pascal Lissouba is dead

Dislodged from power in 1997 at the end of a civil war led by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the former head of state died in Perpignan at the age of 88. Former Congolese President Pascal Lissouba died Monday, August 24 in...

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Russia: Opponent Alexei Navalny poisoned and hospitalized in intensive care

Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, one of the main opponents of President Vladimir Putin, is in hospital "in intensive care", his spokesman said on Twitter on Thursday 20 August. "We assume that Alexei was poisoned," she wrote, saying Navalny first "felt bad" on a plane and has...

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Mali: shots fired in the military camp where the 2012 coup d’état started

The United States warned this afternoon that it was opposed to "any extra-constitutional change of government. Soldiers fired shots in the air on Tuesday, August 18, for an unknown reason, in the large military camp in the garrison town of Kati, from where...

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