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The capital city of Burkina Faso was relaxed on Friday as voters await to perform their civic responsibility on Sunday. They will decide between President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and an opposition that hopes one of its candidate will make it to round 2. “Really, the campaign as a whole, it was unprecedented. If I may say so, it’s the… Read More

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré held his last campaign rally Friday in a stadium in Ouagadougou. Burkina Faso will vote in a general election Sunday in the shadow of a growing militant insurgency, with President Roch Marc Christian Kabore expected to win re-election. But no votes in the presidential and parliamentary polls will be cast in one-fifth of the country’s… Read More

The lot of political cartoonists in the Middle East & North Africa region is not an easy one. In their native countries, many of these artistic activists’ face censorship, persecution, imprisonment or worse, for putting pen to paper. Sudanese political artist Khalid Albaih lives in Denmark. His caricatures & criticism of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, have made it impossible… Read More

Empire Star Taraji P. Henson will host the American Music Awards on Sunday. But what’s the Hollywood actor bringing on board? “I’m trying to bring a bit of my musical theater training, my comedic chops, just a hodgepodge of my talent. You know, I sing, I dance, I did study musical theater at Howard University. So whenever I have shows… Read More

More Music and More Substance She is the most listened to French-speaking recording artist in the entire world, Aya Danioko better known as Aya Nakamura, the singer of Malian descent has just released her third album self titled Aya. A Multicultural Fusion that Has Influenced the World The singing sensation gives an inside look into her latest project, “I think… Read More

The Ex-President is Ordered to Pay Up Malawi’s High Court ruled on Friday for former President Peter Mutharika and former Chief Secretary to Government, Lloyd Muhura, to personally pay the entire cost of litigation for violating their constitutional mandate in light of their order to put Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda and another judge on leave pending retirement. The directive issued… Read More

Political Profile Snapshots A brief look into the profiles of some of the other lesser-known candidates in the running to be the next Burkinabé Head of State. Eddie Komboïgo, one of the three favourites in the upcoming presidential election in Burkina Faso, promised Thursday to restore the legacy of ex-president Blaise Compaoré as the candidate of the former ruling party… Read More

Spain’s interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska made an official visit to Morocco to discuss illegal immigration This comes at a time when there is a spike in the number of undocumented migrants crossing over to the Spain’s Canary island from Morocco “We have specified different measures that we have to adopt in matters, mainly in, the fight against irregular immigration and… Read More

Two days before Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore held a campaign rally in the northern town of Dori earlier this month, the body of a driver for a regional MP was found 15 kilometers away. The death of Sorgho Wendtoin served as a brutal reminder of the difficulty of holding a national election in a country where large… Read More

Optimism is flowing through Europe as the two most promising vaccines may be ready by the end of the year. Pfizer, associated to the German BioNTech, and Moderna are the two companies in a race to get the authorities’ approval first. While the speed of this competition worries some analysts, there’s great hope as well. “If we do this in… Read More