Some areas of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, experienced a 2.8 magnitude earthquake on the morning of Friday 10 March 2023. The news was confirmed by the Ghana Geological Survey Authority (GGSA) in a press release.The tremor which occurred at 9.49am was “lightly felt in High Street, Ridge and other parts of central Accra”, the GGSA said, adding that “the epicentre is located 1.5km offshore near James Town in the Greater Accra Region”.”The recorded magnitude is indicative of the extent of the earthquake. The earthquake is minor and therefore not expected to cause any damage,” the document added before explaining that…
Author: Eliane Fatchina
Eliane Fatchina
Eliane Yabo Omonlayo Fatchina is a reporter of Afro impact. She holds a professional degree in journalism from ENSTIC in Benin, she is a pan-Africanist passionate about culture, social issues and the environment. With already seven years of experience, she works daily to give voice to ideas through writing.
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The government of Benin has introduced a curfew in seven communes in the departments of Alibori and Atacora in the north of the country. This was announced by the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Governance, Raphaël Akotègnon, in a radio message to the prefects of the concerned departments. The initiative aims to protect the population from the increasing number of terrorist attacks in the northern part of the country. The Minister of Decentralisation and Local Governance, Raphaël Akotègnon, announced on Friday 10 March 2023 that a curfew has been imposed in seven Communes in northern Benin. These are the communes…
In Abidjan, a 2-year sentence of 26 activists of the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, PPA-CI is an “iniquitous, arbitrary and politically oriented” decision, according to a statement of the party made public on Friday 10 March. As a result, the leaders of the political group are demanding the “immediate release of his activists” who participated on 24 February in a rally in support of Damana Pickass, the secretary general of the PPA-CI. In the wake of the conviction of its 26 activists to whom the ivorian justice reproaches a “public nuisance”, The African Peoples’ Party of Ivory Coast…
At Cotonou city, works on construction sites on the Cotonou Rainwater Sanitation Program (PAPC) are making considerable progress. Soon, people in the target areas of the city will be relieved of the risk of flooding. A team led by the Coordinator of the program, Mr Oswald Gangbo, visited the site on Thursday 9 March to observe the remarkable progress of the work. “This is the first time that we are intervening in the whole city in full compliance with the Master Plan for Sanitation of the city of Cotonou. This will enable us to solve the overall flooding problem in…
The ruling military junta in Mali announced on Friday the postponement of the constitutional referendum to a later date. The information was given by Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, Minister of Territorial Administration and Government Spokesperson, at a press briefing in Bamako. “The Transitional Government informs national opinion that the date of the referendum scheduled for 19 March 2023, in the chronogram of political, institutional and electoral reforms of the Transition, will be slightly postponed,” said Minister Maiga, without specifying a new deadline. According to the Malian government, this postponement sine die is justified “by the firm will of the transitional authorities…
In Ivory Coast, 26 activists of the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, the Party of African Peoples-Ivory Coast (PPA-CI) were sentenced on the evening of Thursday, March 9, by the court of flagrante delicto to 24 months in prison for “disturbance of public order”. A total of 27 defendants appeared before the examining magistrate on Thursday. The Ivorian justice system is accusing them of holding a rally in support of Damana Pickass, the secretary general of the opposition party PPA-CI, when he was summoned to appear before the investigating judge on 24 February. While Damana Pickass was summoned for…
The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) announced on Wednesday 8 March the postponement of the state governors’ election. Originally scheduled to take place on Saturday 11 March, the vote will finally take place on 18 March. The reason for the postponement is that a Nigerian court on Wednesday asked the electoral authorities to reconfigure the machines used in the presidential election, even though we are four days away from the polling day. The decision came too late, according to the commission, which, according to a statement, does not have enough time to reconfigure the 176,000 electoral accreditation machines…
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed denied any racism towards sub-Saharan migrants. It was during a meeting at the Carthage Palace between Kaïs Saïed and the Guinea-Bissau president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, on Wednesday 08 March. His statement follows a wave of indignation over his speech against illegal migrants in Tunisia. Indeed, on 21 February 2023, President Kaïs Saïed had called for an end to the presence of the “hordes of illegal migrants” whose arrival was part of a “criminal enterprise hatched at the dawn of this century to change the demographic composition of Tunisia”. These remarks, described as racist and hateful, had…
Four years old, the dispute between the Togolese State and Togo Terminal (a subsidiary of Bolloré Africa Logistics), which was putting a strain on the atmosphere on the quays of the port of Lomé has come to an end. The Togolese state has increased its stake in Togo Terminal from 5% to 30%. The government of Togo announced at the end of the Council of Ministers on 1st March that it had increased its shares in Togo Terminal, the subsidiary of the French operator Bolloré, sold to the Italian-Swiss shipowner MSC. This was the result of negotiations following the departure…
The National Agency for the Identification of Persons (ANIP) has launched a new phase of enrolment in the Administrative Census for the Identification of the Population (RAVIP) in Benin. The operation is held throughout the country, in the main districts. This is the very first major mission undertaken by the new General Director of the National Agency for Identification of Persons (ANIP), Pascal Nyamulinda. It aims to give a new chance to people not yet enrolled in the National Register. It should be noted that enrolment in RAVIP is necessary to obtain some documents in Benin, including birth certificates, biometric…
