New psychodrama at the White House. This time, it is the director of communication who resigns, a position she was already the third to occupy in 13 months. Hope Hicks, however, was a loyal Trump faithful, with whom she had been working for many years. The 29-year-old discreet young woman was heard on Tuesday in the case of Russian interference during the election campaign.
Spicer, Dubke, again, Scaramucci, and now Hope Hicks ... not easy to lead the communication of Donald Trump, who will have to find a fifth director in a little more than a year.

However, if the first three left on bad terms with the presidency, it is still unclear why Hicks, a former model of the Trump family for a long time, leaves the White House. Is it following the case Rob Porter, this counselor became his boyfriend, fired when it discovered the accusations of conjugal violence on his two former wives?

"Little Lies"

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A Ghanaian teacher teaches computers to his students but without a computer. The video of Owura Kwadwo Hottish's initiative has sparked a buzz on social media. The method of this teacher is indeed the least original.

Hand-colored chalks, the Ghanaian teacher reproduces the identical screen of a word processor on a blackboard.

His goal is to make his students aware of the use of a computer in the absence of computer equipment in his school. His initiative became viral in a fortnight.

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In the United States, Donald Trump is preparing for the November 2020 presidential election. He has already officially raised more than $30 million in funding. On February 27, he revealed the name of the campaign director for his re-election committee, Brad Parscale. In 2016,
during the election campaign, it was at the heart of the digital strategy of the current president, so important because Donald Trump constantly denigrates the traditional media and has emerged as a champion of social networks.

Donald Trump hammered it on February 23. The current President of the United States will serve another seven years until the end of a second term. This will is not new. He had signed the legal documents to prepare his re-election the very day of his inauguration.

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In India, Valentine's Day is more and more celebrated each year. But lovers' feast also faces the opposition of many far-right groups, self-proclaimed guardians of traditional Indian values, who have not hesitated over the past decade to resort to violence against women. unmarried couples on February 14, but also throughout the year. Faced with this "police of morality", the NGO Right to Love based in the city of Pune in the west of the country, fights to protect lovers.

Every February 14th is the same story in India. Several Hindu organizations, some of them totally obscure - are stepping up, threatening to attack young couples. One of the most important, the Bajrang Dal, renowned for its violent actions, has advised the restaurants and bars of the city to organize events "special Valentine's Day".

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British aid organization Oxfam is accused of covering up prostitution. It all started with a survey published on February 9 by the British daily The Times, Oxfam employees hired young prostitutes in 2011 in Haiti during a mission following the earthquake that ravaged the country in 2010 and has nearly 300,000 dead. British Minister for International Development Penny Mordaunt is due to meet with Oxfam officials on Monday.

The British government threatens to end its financial cooperation with the Oxford-based NGO since an investigation published by the British newspaper The Times revealed the extent of the scandal. Oxfam is suspected by the government of failing to provide all the information available to it and to have tried to cover the facts.

Downing Street has therefore ordered Oxfam to provide the Charity Commission, the UK body monitoring humanitarian associations, with a detailed history of events as well as all the documents on the employees involved in the Haiti case.

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The Olympic Winter Games opened Friday in South Korea as doping controversies resurface. There is the Russian file, of course, this report on cross-country skiing which states that 290 athletes presented "abnormal" blood data between 2001 and 2010. The sports authorities explain that the control procedures are heavy and that it is impossible to monitor everyone. This might change: a team of researchers at the University of Waterloo has developed a new, faster, and much cheaper technique.

A urine and blood test now takes about thirty minutes and costs several tens of dollars per sample. With this new technique, one minute is enough for a few dollars. "We could control every athlete every day," say researchers at the University of Waterloo, who developed it.

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The United States is at the bedside of Côte d'Ivoire in the fight against terrorism. The Americans sent three trainers from the federal police and the anti-drug agency to Abidjan. The instructors share their know-how with the Ivorian security forces. A training in two phases: the first started at the beginning of the week, the second will be held for another fifteen days next month.
This is the first time that the very famous US agencies of federal investigators and the fight against drugs offer their expertise to Côte d'Ivoire. About fifty Ivorian police and gendarmes will benefit from the different techniques of investigation and prevention of attacks against vulnerable targets.

The terrorist threat now hangs over the country, since the deadly attack that claimed 19 lives in the seaside resort of Grand-Bassam on March 13,

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In Zimbabwe, it is a gesture towards the last remaining white farmers in the country. The government has announced that it will extend from 5 years to 99 years the lease term of these farmers, spared the land reform of former President Robert Mugabe. A controversial reform that has plunged the country into a serious economic crisis. Thousands of white farmers were forcibly evicted from their land in the early 2000s for the benefit of black farmers, at the behest of the ruling Robert Mugabe government.

All white farmers will now receive a lease of 99 years instead of 5 years. According to a circular from the Ministry of Agriculture, this measure should affect about 200 white farmers still operating in the country.

New President Emmerson Mnangagwa is committed to revitalizing the economy, including agricultural production.

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The FBI expresses its “serious concerns“ about the veracity of a top-secret memo that Republicans threaten to publish as of Thursday. This text became in a few days a weapon to counter the open investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It would tend to prove that the FBI is not neutral vis-a-vis the Trump administration.

According to the Republicans, this highly confidential note, whose exact content is not yet known, would highlight an anti-Trump bias within the FBI and the Justice Department. It is based on the tapping, considered abusive, of a former adviser to Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.

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#MeToo's wave of movement continues with new sex scandal hitting a power man in the United States. This time, it's casino mogul Steve Wynn, who is facing sexual assault charges published by the Wall Street Journal. The title of the group Wynn Resorts immediately fell after these allegations strongly denied by the person concerned.

He is one of the great barons of Las Vegas, builder of some of his biggest casino-hotels like the Mirage or the Bellagio. He is also a generous donor and chief financial officer of the Republican Party. Donald Trump described him in 2016 as a “great friend”. At 75, billionaire Steve Wynn is now facing a sex scandal revealed by the Wall Street Journal based on 150 anonymous interviews with his current or past employees.

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Still, no consensus in the United States between Democrats and Republicans on the issue of immigration. Democrats, as well as some Republicans, have rejected Donald Trump's proposals.

Donald Trump had described his compromise as “extremely generous“. The text was immediately rejected by the elected Democrats. Written by Stephen Miller, one of his most conservative advisers, the project proposed the naturalization of 1.8 million undocumented immigrants including illegal students, provisionally regularized by the program DACA Barack Obama and whose Democrats have made a political priority.

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A team of scientists led by Israeli researchers has managed to date and identify a piece of jaw. It is a jaw of a “modern man”, a Homo sapiens, dating back at least 177 000 years. This makes it the oldest fossil of Homo sapiens found outside the African continent. And this discovery, published in the journal Science, changes the knowledge that scientists have of the human species.

It has been more than fifteen years since the piece of jaw was discovered in the cave of Misliya, on the western slope of my Carmel, 12 km south of Haifa. Fifteen years as teams around the world examine the seven fossilized teeth to try to break the secret and finally achieve a major discovery.

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For the first time, a team of Chinese researchers has managed to clone two monkeys. Unveiled Wednesday, January 24 in the scientific journal Cell, this success is promising for medical research because it could allow laboratories to work with genetically uniform primate populations. But if this feat was performed with a therapeutic intent, it is not without asking many ethical questions.

In 1996 was born the sheep Dolly, the first cloned animal. Since then, mice, cats, and dogs have been born in the same way. But never our closest cousins, the monkeys, could have been cloned. It is now done. Macaques Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua share the same genetic code as their parents, so to speak.

To achieve this, we must take a cell of the individual that we want to clone and keep only its nucleus, which contains the genetic information. On the other side, on a female, researchers take a reproductive cell: an oocyte and remove the nucleus. The idea is to insert the genetic information of the first individual into the oocyte.

After a few days, an embryo appears and is transferred to the uterus of a surrogate mother.......

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Qatar conducts “advanced” negotiations for the purchase of Russian-made S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. Qatar, like its Gulf neighbors, is a big buyer of arms. And this type of announcement has been particularly prominent since the beginning of the crisis between Qatar and four other countries in the region.

On June 5, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt suddenly broke ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting “terrorist“ movements in the region and being too close to Iran.

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The crisis in English-speaking Cameroon is overflowing on neighboring Nigeria. UNHCR has registered nearly 10,000 people fleeing the crisis in their country. Relief services in the state of Cross River speak of at least 33,000 refugees, scattered in villages, housed in families, in the utmost precariousness. Local authorities and UNHCR draw attention to the need for camps to house these populations.
"We have identified nearly 33,000 Cameroonian migrants. A large number arrived by road. But some people cross the forest, others the river. So it's very difficult to record them on our databases," says John Inaku, Cross River State Emergency Management, and Management Manager.

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In Cote d'Ivoire, at a meeting with various political parties, the Electoral Commission announced that the municipal and regional polls scheduled for 2018 would be linked. However, no precise date has yet been set.

A revision of the lists for “very soon“ and the municipal and regional elections coupled are the two announcements made by the Independent Electoral Commission that received Tuesday, January 23 at its headquarters in Abidjan representatives of political parties.

No announcement has been made regarding the date of the polls, but this will necessarily be before October 2018, since the law requires that the electoral lists be published three months before the vote. Municipal and regional elected officials will then participate in the appointment of the first senators of the new Ivorian Constitution.


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The US Senate on Monday found a temporary budget compromise to fund the state and end the partial closure of the federal government that has nailed hundreds of thousands of federal employees to their homes.

After intense negotiations, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate have agreed on a text ensuring the financing of the state until February 8, with the stated objective of finding an agreement on immigration and the fate of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who arrived young in the United States.

This compromise must now be validated by the House of Representatives, then signed by Donald Trump, to enter into force. Unless unlikely, the first shutdown of the Donald Trump era will have lasted three days. The last, which dates back to 2013, under the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama, lasted 16 days.


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After four months of post-election imbroglio, the German Social Democrats decide this Sunday if they accept the principle of a new coalition led by Angela Merkel, The 600 delegates of the Social Democratic Congress, must accept or reject the result of preliminary discussions with the Conservatives, those who oppose this agreement are the young people of the SPD....

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Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington on Friday for a march against abortion. This event takes place every year on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that authorized abortion in the United States 45 years ago. New this year, Donald Trump addressed the crowd by video.

Donald Trump, billed as the most defending president of the “right to life” - as pro-abortionist Vice President Mike Pence has put it on the screen. The crowd is enthusiastic...

“Today I am honored and truly proud to be the first president to address the” walk for life “from the White House.”

In reality, Ronald Reagan and George Bush have already done the same but by phone. Whatever, see Donald Trump galvanizes activists, like Neal Wallace wearing a cap in the colors of the American flag: “I think he does a very good job, really. I think he's doing his best. He and Vice President Pence are with us. They are trying to overcome massive opposition and I think they will get there.“

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Due to the warming climate, the Great Barrier Reef along the state of Queensland, east of Australia, is endangered. Today, the Australian authorities are calling for help scientists in the hope of stopping this phenomenon by putting in the balance 1.3 million euros.

At over 2,300 kilometers long and 348,000 square kilometers in size, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem of coral reefs in the world. This jewel, which surfers consider to be the 8th wonder of the world, was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981 by UNESCO. The Great Barrier is made up of more than 900 islands and 2,900 coral reefs.

These reefs are composed of billions of tiny organisms: polyp corals - 400 different species - in which there are more than 1,600 species of fish, 4,000 species of molluscs, six species of sea turtles (out of the seven known and nearly 240 bird species according to UNESCO, making it one of the richest natural ecosystems on Earth.

Endangered Corals

But the largest living structure on the planet has been bleached for several years and some of them, very severe, cause its disappearance.

The four most important episodes occurred in 1998, in 2002, in 2016, 93% of the corals were reached with 22% mortality during the austral summer, and in 2017, the occurrence of a new episode of bleaching. has left no chance for corals to recover.

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Donald Trump is hardening the tone on the issue of immigration. In a tweet sent from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, he announced Sunday morning January 14 "the very likely death of the DACA", this provision made by former President Barack Obama and which allowed to offer a status to nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants arrived in the United States. A few days before the renewal of the government budget, he accuses the Democrats to use the migration issue to defeat the budget vote.

So what is President Donald Trump doing? After hinting last week that he was willing to forgo the expulsion of the 800,000 dreamers, the young miners illegally arrived in the United States, against increased

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In Liberia, outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was expelled from the Unity Party with four other members. A decision that follows the rumors of support from the president to George Weah, the opponent of Joseph Boakai, vice president of Johnson Sirleaf and unfortunate candidate of the party in the presidential election.


The circumstances of this exclusion remain unclear, according to Liberian observer Abdullai Kamara, director of the Liberia Holding Consortium Media: “There have been rumors that outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf would not have supported Vice President Jospeh Boakai who was the candidate of the Unity Party. During the campaign, Boakai had also stated in an interview that Sirleaf's support for the party was unsatisfactory. What I notice is that the decision to exclude President Sirleaf from the Unity Party was taken without her being invited to speak on the subject or that an investigation be opened. And on the release of the party, there is no date indicating when this decision was made.



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On this anniversary of the 2011 revolution in Tunisia, the President of the Republic, Beji Caid Essebsi, went to a popular neighborhood in the suburbs of Tunis. He came to inaugurate a Youth House. This is the first time that a head of state went there. This trip was meticulously prepared and was a major communication operation.

The big city Ettadhamen is one of the most important popular districts in Africa. In the western suburbs of Tunis, the symbol is therefore strong for Beji Caïd Essebsi who, by his very presence, wants to remind that he is the president of all Tunisians. Hundreds of people - children, young people, families - gathered around the Maison des Jeunes.



Retired Naghma came with her daughter to tell the president that the situation has become unbearable.

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Beijing is gaining more influence every day in Africa's largest economy. To the point of worrying the Western powers, first and foremost the United States.


If the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka meets you in Abeokuta, his hometown, there is a good chance he will do it in a Chinese restaurant. “It's the best of the city,“ he says as if this “champion of the African cause” felt obscurely the need to justify himself.

In his home state, the Ogun, in southwestern China, the Chinese are everywhere. Starting with the field of construction where they cut cruppers to European groups, traditional partners of Nigeria, like the German Julius Berger who made his fortune in building in the country.


In Lagos, the economic capital of the country, it is difficult to spend a day without being in contact with Chinese, in the popular neighborhoods as well as in the better-off. Unlike other countries on the continent, they are not confined to Chinatowns and circulate everywhere.

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