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Nigerians will still have to be patient before knowing the name of their future president, while the counting is still in progress. The two opposition candidates denounced “manipulations”. In front of the results collection center in Abuja, our correspondent Moïse Gomis talks about the laborious process of counting the votes.
The M23 rebels have just taken control of a new town in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and remained on the offensive on Tuesday, a day which should have marked the start of the withdrawal from their positions. According to a new timetable adopted by East African leaders on February 17, “all armed groups”, including the M23, must withdraw by March 30, following a three-step process that was due to start on February 28. They captured Mweso, and Mushaki. Fighting continued on Tuesday about 30 km west of Goma.
This is unprecedented since the independence of the DR Congo in 1960. Congolese in France will be able to vote for the Congolese presidential election on December 20 from France. The electoral law allowed it in theory but no system of registration on the lists had been put in place until now. Report by Kalidou Sy and Landry Tchatchouang.
The Paris court dismissed opponents of the controversial TotalEnergies oil megaproject in Uganda and Tanzania, criticizing the NGOs for not having sufficiently explored the path of dialogue with the oil giant before going to court.
Residents of eastern Burkina Faso spoke of a “horror film” describing the attack, with an unknown toll, on their town by suspected jihadists the day before, where they say they were abandoned by the ‘army. According to these residents, who relate testimonies from their surviving relatives, armed groups attacked Partiaga, destroying administrative buildings and burning grain granaries.
The tense security context did not compromise the holding of the 28th edition of FESPACO. Focus on two monuments of cinema on the continent, Souleymane Cissé and Gaston Kaboré, who took the opportunity to share their rich experience with the younger generation.
Editor: Célia Caracena