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In particular, the newly elected President of the United States will need to address the explosive situation in Ethiopia, the continued support for the democratic transition in Sudan and the handling of the Shebab threat in Somalia. In East Africa, the first hot file to reach Joe Biden's office is Ethiopia, reminds our correspondent in Nairobi Sébastien Nemeth.…

Cheers on the earth democracies. Grief within the dictatorships. It's the world's response to Joe Biden changing into the forty sixth President of the US, says former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. The robust males of the dictatorships have seen Trump as an equal. Donald Trump would be the third president in trendy occasions in the US to not be re-elected after his first 4 years, if the forecasts maintain. - It's a historic understatement of Trump's manner of main the nation, signed by the American individuals,…

The foreign policy for the future administration of Joe Biden is not yet defined. Joe Biden has been quite cautious about the foreign policy that his administration wants to pursue. But his team is showing positive signals for a rapprochement with the African continent. Joe Biden's team intends to show "mutual respect" for…

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid were hit by airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria, last week. Twenty people were killed, including 12 aid workers./Getty Images The UN’s top relief official has strongly condemned recent attacks on aid workers in different parts of the world, demanding that those who target humanitarians are brought to justice. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), six humanitarian workers were killed last week, in targeted violent attacks in Somalia, in two separate…

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden joined by Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks on the The Queen theater Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Picture/Carolyn Kaster) WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump within the vote depend in Pennsylvania and Georgia Friday morning, closing in on a presidency that hinges on the end result of tight contests in key battleground states. Each races remained too early to…

Seven years after the assassination of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Kidal in northern Mali, RFI awarded the scholarship with their names to young Cameroonian journalist Charles Donatien Abossolo Oba and Burkinabe technician Romain Bouda. In an unusual health situation, an unprecedented price reduction. It was by…

Hussein Bakri is the Lebanese architect responsible for the design of the Akon City project in Senegal. We met him in the United Arab Emirates, where he lives. This “citizen of the world” told us about his architectural philosophy. "I'm surprised by your request". These are the first words that Hussein Bakri used when we met…

A Muslim physician has been denied German citizenship after refusing to shake a woman's hand when she gave him his certificates. The 39-year-old Lebanese nationwide was on the purpose of turning right into a German after residing throughout the nation for 13 years, ending his medical analysis and passing a citizenship check out with the most effective attainable mark. Nonetheless he failed on the last word hurdle after refusing to shake the hand of the female official on the ceremony in 2015, important state authorities…

The finance ministers of the G20 countries have decided to extend the moratorium on debt service in the poorest countries by six months (until June), which has already given 46 countries out of 73 the right to suspend a global repayment amount estimated at five billion dollars. The moratorium was expected, although the IMF and the World Bank, as well as a number of NGOs fighting poverty, this gesture is still insufficient given the needs of poor countries. An extension of the moratorium was expected. But many were hoping…

The Stanford Internet Observatory, a US research institute on disinformation and abuse on the Internet, looked at about 100 Facebook pages linked to the Rassemblement du peuple de Guinée, the ruling party or its supporters. According to'Stanford Internet Observatory study, Facebook pages linked to RPG or its followers will not promote "transparent political life or fair elections". The proliferation of accounts, automation techniques, and the use of advertising would create the illusion of "massive and spontaneous…