La pratique du journalisme au Mali, un véritable chemin de croix où l’amateurisme côtoie la précarité. En la veille du 3 mai, il convient de jeter un regard sur l’état de la presse malienne...

Le premier forum d’investissement et de coopération économique renforcée Mali-Maroc les 14 et 15 mai prochains au Centre international de conférences de Bamako (CICB).

Le président camerounais a paraphé l’accord de prêt pour le financement partiel de l’étude dudit projet

C’est la déclaration qu’a fait le secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies chargé des opérations de maintien de la paix, Hervé Ladsous

Tunis Tunisia (PANA) ? The international civil aviation training centre in Tunisia on Friday signed an agreement with the Libyan-African company that allows the Libyan holding company to buy 27% of the capital of the Tunisian civil aviation and airport office, sources said in the Tunisian capital.
Economy

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? Several prisoners belonging to Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), who are serving heavy sentences for terrorist activities at secret places, were on Friday returned to a prison of the capital, Nouakchott, the private news agency "Sahara Media" reports.

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the 7-9 May World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, scheduled for Nigeria's capital city of Abuja, the Nigerian government on Friday announced the shutdown of all government offices and public schools in the city.
Politics

Les députés de l'Assemblée nationale constituante ont doté jeudi, par 132 voix contre 11, la Tunisie d'une nouvelle loi électorale. Avec pour objectif d'organiser d'ici à la fin de l'année des élections législatives et présidentielle.

Malgré l'annonce d'une hausse du salaire minimum, le gouvernement Benkirane reste sous pression : jeudi, quelques dizaines de milliers de personnes ont manifesté à Rabat et Casablanca.

L'Algérie, le Cameroun, la Côte d'Ivoire, le Ghana et le Nigeria participent à la Coupe du monde de football au Brésil, le mois prochain. Avec des atouts différents, chacune de ces nations tentera de porter fièrement les couleurs du continent. D'ici là, Jeune Afrique vous propose de composer les équipes-type de chaque sélection. À vous de vous mettre dans la peau du sélectionneur !

Au moins cinq soldats et un policier ont été tués vendredi dans des heurts entre les forces spéciales de l'armée libyenne et un groupe armé à Benghazi, dans l'est de la Libye.

L'une est metteuse en scène, l'autre est politologue. Nadia et Myriam, les deux filles du président tunisien Moncef Marzouki mènent en France deux carrières d'excellence.

Gunmen in the Libyan city of Benghazi have raided a security headquarters, sparking clashes in which at least nine people died, officials say.

South Sudan's president has agreed to hold direct talks to end the conflict in the country with his rival, US Secretary of State John Kerry says.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting South Sudan and has warned that more peacekeepers must be rapidly deployed to end the conflict.

Police in Nigeria appeal to parents of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls to come forward with their photographs to confirm the number of missing.

Le nombre de cas de syndrome respiratoire du Moyen-Orient, qui provient des chameaux, a pratiquement doublé en Arabie saoudite en avril.

[Nigerian Govt]ABUJA (Industry, Trade and Investment Ministry Report) - The African Ministers of Trade and Experts in Trade and Regional Integration have aligned with Nigeria's position on the trade liberalisation deal with the European Union under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)....

Witnesses and security officials recount how Boko Haram militants rolled into Chibok and kidnapped 300 schoolgirls A mother cries out during a demonstration in Abuja with others who have daughters among the kidnapped schoolgirls. Photograph: Gbemiga Olamikan/AP Just before midnight on 14 April in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, pastor Enoch Mark's phone rang. Half asleep, it took him a while to make sense of the voice talking rapidly down the line. Eventually four words penetrated: Boko Haram are coming. The caller, a friend in a neighbouring village, said a convoy of trucks and 4x4s bristling with armed insurgents was heading his way. At first, Mark did not panic. It was for such...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ? The death toll from a car bomb that exploded on a busy road in Nigeria#39;s capital rose to at least 19 overnight with 66 people wounded, police said Friday from the city, which hosts an international conference next week. The bomb was driven near a checkpoint where traffic built up, right across the road from a busy bus station where a huge explosion killed at least 75 people on April 14. That blast was claimed by the Islamic extremist Boko Haram terrorist network in a video April 19 that threatened further attacks. When he heard Thursday night#39;s blast, roadside fruit vendor Babangida Bello just started running. quot;I was confused and fell into a gutter,quot;...

[WEF]Abuja - The World Economic Forum has received assurances from President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan that security arrangements in Abuja will ensure a smooth and successful meeting next week The 24th World Economic Forum on Africa will take place in Abuja, Nigeria, on 7-9 May 2014 convening over 1000 leaders from politics, business and civil society For more information on the meeting, visit: http://wef.ch/af14...

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa #8212; Secretary of State John F. Kerry pressed South Sudan's president Friday to meet face-to-face with a longtime rival in talks he said were crucial to end fighting that has left thousands of people dead and displaced about a million others. Kerry flew into the South Sudan capital of Juba and sped to a meeting with President Salva Kiir, announcing afterward that Kiir had expressed willingness to take steps to end the violent conflict which has seen targeted ethnic killings. I made it clear to him that he has to do everything in his power to end violence and also begin the process of national dialogue, Kerry told reporters in Juba, according to...

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -Wage negotiations in the private sector will start early next week once the agreement on raising the guaranteed minimum industrial wage (SMIG) is signed, Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Hassine Abassi announced....

[SPS]Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the resolution of the United Nations Security Council though it does not provide for the extension of the mandate of the UN Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring in the occupied Sahrawi territories....

[SPS]Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -The Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps, hosted Thursday the Regional Festival of Culture and Folk Arts, organized under the theme Alerting the Cultural Front to Support of the Independence Intifada, in coincidence with the 11th edition of International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara)....

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Beja -Bringing Tunisians together and winning the next elections, are the priority of Nidaa Tounes, leaders of the Movement said on Thursday at a meeting held on International Labour Day....

The death toll from a car bomb that exploded on a busy road in Nigeria's capital rose to at least 19 overnight with 66 people wounded, police said Friday (local time) from the city, which hosts an international conference next week. The bomb was driven near a checkpoint where traffic built up, right across the road from a busy bus station where a huge explosion killed at least 75 people on April 14. That blast was claimed by the Islamic extremist Boko Haram terrorist network in a video April 19 that threatened further attacks. When he heard Thursday night's blast, roadside fruit vendor Babangida Bello just started running. I was confused and fell into a gutter, he told The Associated...

Up to 276 0f the more than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped are still missing....

2 May 2014 Last updated at 21:19 BST The Nigerian government has come under a great deal of criticism over its handling of the Boko Haram threat. Nobel Prize winner Professor Wole Soyinka is the country's foremost writer and social commentator. Peter Okwoche asked him why the government seems so helpless. Read more Abuja blast: Car bomb attack rocks...

South Sudan's president Salva Kiir says he is ready to hold face-to-face talks with rebel leader Riek Machar to try to end more than four months of violence....