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Yamoussoukro, capitale abandonnée de la Côte d’Ivoire

Il y a 35 ans, le président Félix Houphouët-Boigny transférait la capitale de la Côte d’Ivoire dans son village natal : Yamoussoukro. D’immenses chantiers ont été lancés pour le transformer en ville moderne : aéroport international, institut polytechnique, palais présidentiel, et aussi le plus grand lieu de culte chrétien du monde ! Mais le …

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Sudan’s veteran opposition leader calls on Bashir to step down

The leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, Sadiq al-Mahdi, called on President Omar al-Bashir’s government to heed protesters and resign in an address to supporters at a mosque across the River Nile from Khartoum Friday. « This regime has to go immediately, » Mahdi told hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in …

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Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast’s abandoned capital

In 1983, Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny moved the country’s capital city from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro, his birthplace. Huge building sites were set up to transform what was a small village into a modern city: an international airport was built, a polytechnic institute, a presidential palace and even the world’s largest …

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Former Sudanese PM calls for Bashir to quit as protests mount

The leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, Sadiq al-Mahdi, called on President Omar al-Bashir’s government to heed protesters and resign in an address to supporters at a mosque across the River Nile from Khartoum Friday.

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Congo analysis: Is it a change of regime or just a change of president?

Congo’s Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in as the new president, cementing the Central African nation’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence nearly 60 years ago. But questions remain about the disputed December 30, 2018, vote. Just one African head of state, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, was seen at …

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