The Gabonese Elections Centre has selected 19 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for 26 August in Gabon. Two women are embarking on this battle against Ali Bongo, the outgoing head of state. Small surprise on the list, Jean Boniface Assélé, maternal uncle of Ali Bongo, will no longer be in the game. The details of Ismaël Obiang Nze, correspondent of France 24.
In Kenya, an NGO has embarked on the crazy bet to open a school to train young people for free in digital professions in Turkana County, a very isolated and desert region located in the northwest of the country. Bastien Renouil and Théo Prouvost report.
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