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Budding basketball player

Identify future basketball talents and give them excellent training in sports and education: this is the goal of the project "Dreams come true" born in Chad. The project is aimed at children aged 5 to 14 years, it was launched by a collective of young sports enthusiasts. Sandrine Naguertiga, "technical" entrepreneur and French-Chadian blogger is with us in "La Vie ici". .

The Chadian opposition Wakit Tama lends one

This announcement was made during a press conference on Tuesday, June 8. This collective of opposition parties and civil society associations always condemns "an institutional coup". as reported from Ndjamena, Aurélie Bazzara-KibangulaThis decision was made in particular after the location of the African Union and ECCAS which…

Despite signs of relief, the tension remains

France has frozen its budget support and suspended military cooperation with the Central African Republic. Paris justifies this decision with unfulfilled commitments from the Central African authorities "both politically towards the opposition and behavior towards France", the French Ministry of Armed Forces specifies. The tea towel is burning between Paris and Bangui, but signs of conviction have…

France stops supporting Central African Republic

France has suspended aid and military cooperation in the Central African Republic because of what it says is the government's failure to stop "massive disinformation campaigns" aimed at its officials, the Ministry of Armed Forces said. France has cut 10 million euros ($ 12.18 million) in budget support for its former colony and stopped direct military cooperation, the ministry told Reuters in an email on Tuesday. "A number of commitments made by the Central African authorities to France have not been…

Nyiragongo outbreak: “There was no sign

Congolese Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge ended a three-day visit to Goma on Monday, affected by a volcanic eruption on May 22. Eight million US dollars is needed, he said, to meet the urgent needs of the affected populations who had to evacuate Goma in a disaster. The Prime Minister has approved that these populations gradually return and promises that lessons will be learned ... He answers questions from Patient Ligodi. RFI: Why the Goma Volcanological Observatory (OVG) could not raise the warning before the outbreak…

Calm returns to South Darfur after clashes

Uncertain calm prevailed on Monday in South Darfur, located in southwestern Sudan, after clashes last week. Conflicts between two opposing tribes left 36 dead and forty wounded, according to Sudan's official agency Suna. Moussa Mahdi, the governor of the state of South Darfur, said joint forces were sent on Sunday to Oum Dafouk, the site of the conflict, located near the border with the Central African…