Central Africa

In the Central African Republic, six months after the presidential election, one month after the end of the legislative election and almost two weeks after the appointment of the Prime Minister, the country still does not know the composition of its new government. Central Africans are impatient, but the new tenant of Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra takes his time, time to receive the audience a large…

A dozen tourists, Russians and a Lithuanian, were arrested just over a week ago in the Chadian Sahara, near Faya-Largeau, in the north of the country. They were returned to the capital Ndjamena manu militari, and were admitted to an exclusive hotel pending the completion of the ongoing investigation to determine the reasons for their presence in an area considered "red".…

In his speech on 6 June, the President of the Central African Republic announced the end of consultations to hold a major national dialogue. For the opposition platform COD-2020, the proposed dialogue can not ensure national reconciliation. Faustin Archange Touadéra announced it implementation of this dialogue was imminent…

Local spectators will be able to participate in the Olympic Games (July 23-August 8), announced the organizers of Tokyo 2021. For African athletes who will participate in these Olympics, can count on the support of an audience, even very limited because of Covid- 19, is a relief. The 68,000 seats at Tokyo Olympic Stadium are far…

The Prime Minister of the Congo presented his general political speech to the National Assembly in Brazzaville on Monday. Anatole Collinet Makosso took office on 12 May, clarifying the main tasks of her government. Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso outlined the 12 major battles his government intends to wage. Firstly,…

One hundred women were in front of the courthouse in Ndjamena this morning to protest against violence against women and the impunity that the perpetrators of these crimes enjoy. The protesters were furious after a new rape case. The message was sung by some thirty protesters dressed in black and a sign in their hand, describes…

In Gabon, following a 48-hour ultimatum, authorities sent the army to stalls from street vendors in the capital. The goal is to get rid of all traders who sell illegally on the sidewalk. It is within the framework of a clean-up operation called "Free the sidewalks" that the soldiers acted on Sunday, June 20 from kl. 4. They started the operation at PK12 outside Libreville.…

The new restrictions linked to Covid-19 are a blow to companies in the capital Kinshasa. Bars, nightclubs and terraces are forced to close by the authorities to deal with the "third wave" of the pandemic, more virulent than the first two. as reported from Kinshasa, Pascal MulegwaIt performs new measures against Covid-19,…

"Against a global downward trend since the beginning of May, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated in Africa for the fifth week in a row. Africa Pointabove all. The trajectory of Covid cases in Africa is "very, very worrying", the WHO estimated on Friday, with the spread of more infectious variants and a dangerously low level of vaccination. According to data collected by the WHO, there were 116,500 new infections in Africa…

After Requiem pour une République, a noir novel that took place during the Algerian war in 1962, the author Thomas Cantaloube takes up his characters and projects them this time in Cameroon. His new novel, Frakas, has just been published in Série Noire by Gallimard. A former Mediapart journalist, Thomas Cantaloube, wanted to take the war in Cameroon out of oblivion shortly after decolonization. .