ABIDJAN— Hundreds of women in Ivory Coast took to the streets of Abidjan on Saturday to protest a surge of violence against women, in a country where 800 women reported rapes in 2020. The movement, dubbed “Offensive Orange”, saw more than 2,000 women march against rape in the Ivorian economic capital, calling it “a weapon […]
Day: December 5, 2021
Vote count starts in The Gambia presidential election
BANJUL— Polls have closed in The Gambia after citizens cast their vote for president in a tightly fought race seen as a test of democratic progress. Saturday’s vote was the West African country’s first democratic election since former president Yahya Jammeh was voted out of office in 2016. Jammeh, who was defeated by […]
Gambia President Barrow Wins Reelection in Post-Jammeh Vote
Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has secured his reelection with a comfortable margin over his opposition in a vote that set the bar for a new chapter in the small West African nation’s democracy. Barrow won about 53% of the vote in Saturday’s election, according to results from the Independent Election Commission announced Sunday. He easily […]
Twin Explosions Rock UN Camps in Mali
Two explosions rocked U.N. camps in the northern Mali city of Gao on Sunday, causing damage but no casualties, AFP journalists at the scene said. The early morning blasts shook the barracks of the U.N. mission in Mali, called MINUSMA, forcing the occupants to take refuge in shelters for two hours. The French army reported […]