•Mali’s transitional Government shuts down multiparty politics; dissolves all political parties across the country
•Ivorian opposition PDCI holds extraordinary congress this Wednesday to elect a new president, as Tidiane Thiam poised to recontest
•Nigeria’s Benue State, known as food basket of the nation, faces worsening insecurity
•And, in Togo, Political parties and CSOs call for a reclassification of ECOWAS Heads of States to ECOWAS of People
