L'investiture du candidat du Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès (CDP) et de ses alliés au compte de la prochaine élection présidentielle a crée une ambiance de toutes les couleurs au Palais des sports où a eu lieu l'événement, le samedi 21 août.
In the early 1990s, democratization in Niger meant a political reform detached from the military rule, but also safe from religious influence. The adoption of the principle of a radical secularism (laïcité) sought, first, the autonomy of the political sphere from the religious one, and second, the submission of religious authority to the political one. The consecration of this principle led to the criticism of Muslim public actors who argued that such a principle was violating the religious identity of Niger’s society. This paper discusses the difficulty to separate the realm of politics from that of religion as Islamic organizations and Muslim actors have stepped into the political arena, articulating various religion-inspired discourses and seeking the conversion of Niger’s politics to Islam. Nowadays, this activism led to a rearrangement of the state’s position in relation to religiosity and its role in the public domain. This case of ambiguous secularism, I suggest, might be one of a reinterpretation not only of secularism, but of democratization itself.
Le gouvernement béninois et le Fonds koweïtien pour le développement économique arabe ont procédé, vendredi 17 décembre dernier, à la signature d’un accord de prêt pour le financement partiel du projet d'aménagement et de bitumage de la route Ouidah-Allada et de la bretelle Pahou-Tori. Le montant alloué au Bénin est estimé à 6,37 milliards de francs CFA.
