Tunisia’s new government won a confidence vote in parliament on Thursday, after more than four months of political wrangling since elections.  

In tonight’s edition  South Africa’s budget announcement includes a pledge to spend billions on ailing state electricity company Eskom. A funeral for Egypt’s former leader Hisni Mubarak focuses on his military past rather than his political legacy. And finally refugees who have been living in Kenya’s Kakuma camp return home …

En Côte d’Ivoire, environ un tiers des employées de maison seraient victimes de maltraitances. La plupart d’entre elles sont des mineures venant des campagnes et exploitées par leurs employeurs. 

Il y aura « des lignes rouges » dans les négociations avec certains groupes jihadistes, envisagées par le président malien Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, a promis mercredi l’ambassadeur du Mali en France lors d’une audition devant le Sénat français.

Hundreds of people gather around a dusty square in Daloa, in the Ivory Coast, transfixed by films projected onto the side of a giant truck. It is part of the Cinéma du Désert project, which aims to educate West Africans about the dangers of making the perilous journey to Europe.

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011, died Tuesday at age 91. Next, Algeria reports first novel coronavirus case. Meanwhile Africans still stuck in Wuhan lack support from their governments. And finally the wonders of social media …

Egypt will on Wednesday bury its former president Hosni Mubarak, who died at the age of 91, in a military funeral in Cairo.

L’Égypte s’apprête à inhumer mercredi en grande pompe son ancien président, Hosni Moubarak, décédé la veille à l’âge de 91 ans.

Le premier cas de coronavirus en Algérie a été confirmé par le ministre de la Santé ce mardi. Les autorités disent prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires. A des milliers de kilomètres de là, des centaines de ressortissants africains sont toujours bloqués à Wuhan, en Chine en raison de l’épidémie et se sentent abandonnés.

Former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who died Tuesday aged 91, ruled his North African nation with an iron fist for 30 years until his 2011 ouster from power. At the height of his power, he was dubbed the Pharaoh, but he leaves behind a mixed legacy.