2023-08-18 20:40:28
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A platform bringing together the main opposition parties in Gabon announced on Friday to everyone’s surprise the appointment of Albert Ondo Ossa as a “consensual” candidate against outgoing President Ali Bongo Ondimba in the presidential election on August 26.
The ECOWAS force is “ready to intervene” in Niger as soon as the leaders of West African countries give the order, said the commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the regional organization, Abdel – Fatau Musah, after a meeting of the chiefs of staff of the West African armies meeting since Thursday in Accra.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children are on the front line against cholera. Faced with “the worst crisis” of this disease since 2017 according to Unicef, more than 8,000 under the age of five have been infected during the first seven months of the year.
Last straight line in Zimbabwe before the presidential and legislative elections next Wednesday. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 80, is running for re-election. He will face Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the opposition. Our special correspondents Caroline Dumay and Farai Mugano went to one of his meetings.
Three days after Zimbabwe, it will be Gabon’s turn to organize its elections. President Bongo is a candidate for his own succession. Facing him, the main opposition platform agreed to appoint a common candidate. This is Albert Ondo Ossa, professor of economics and former minister of Omar Bongo.
Spotlight on an event that basketball enthusiasts would not miss for the world: the Big Blast, an annual tournament bringing together young people from several West African countries in Cotonou, Benin. Report by our correspondent, Emmanuelle Sodji.
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