2024-10-02 21:04:41
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This Wednesday there was a large military parade for the 66th anniversary of independence in Guinea. Security forces marched all morning in Conakry. General Mamadi Doumbouya, the country’s strongman, spoke the day before the event and called for “patriotism”. He has neither spoken about the transition nor formalized his candidacy for the next presidential election in the country. Malick Diakité’s correspondence in Conakry.
In DR Congo, many young girls miss school because of their periods. Among the reasons for this absenteeism: lack of access to toilets in schools, and sometimes teasing. The NGO Mouvement Alerte sets out to meet schoolchildren to break the taboo around periods with a comic book: Kanku. Report by our correspondent Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula.
Senegal team coach Aliou Cissé was sacked from his post on instructions from the government, dissatisfied with his recent results and his growing unpopularity. At 48, Aliou Cissé spent more than nine years at the head of the national team and won the African Cup of Nations with it in 2022. Reactions with our correspondent in Dakar Elimane Ndao.
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