Central Africa

Monday, Could 3, was World Press Freedom Day. On this event, an illustration was held within the 2nd arrondissement of Paris at the positioning Ghislaine Dupont - Claude Verlon - Camille Lepage. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, RFI journalists, had been killed in November 2013 in northern Mali. Photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed within the Central African Republic in 2014. A rally organized…

In Chad, the composition of the transitional authorities was introduced on Sunday night time, virtually every week after the appointment of the Prime Minister and two weeks after former President Idriss Déby Itno. It was the President of the Transitional Navy Council and the Head of State, Mahamat Idriss Déby, who signed his decree appointing. Forty ministers, overwhelmingly linked to the late…

Following the RFI's revelations concerning the brutal strategies of the Russian "instructors" combating alongside the Central African Military and the human rights violations attributed to it, the Central African authorities responded with the voice of its spokesman and known as for the institution of a fee request. The Central…

The French translation of the well-known essay by the Congolese thinker and writer Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, revealed in English in 1988, is lastly launched by Présence africaine. An occasion e-book, initiated by the historian Mamadou Diouf, which tells his story. The invention of Africa, a basic of postcolonial considering,…

In Chad, the African Union delegation continues its consultations on the transition course of. It has now been 4 days since AU's envoys have been in Ndjamena to satisfy the brand new authorities on website. The delegation is led by two males: Nigerian Bankole Adeoy and Djiboutian Ambassador Mohamed Idriss Farah, PSC President. The latter solutions questions from our particular envoys to Ndjamena,…

Within the Democratic Republic of Congo, there are nonetheless no particulars on the situations for finishing up the siege. It was introduced on Friday at the top of the primary assembly of the Council of Ministers of the Holy Union, adopted by a gathering of the Nationwide Safety Council. This is applicable to the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, the place the massacres are growing.…

Not a single day goes by with out Brazzaville being thrown into the darkish. Customers complain and ask the vitality firm to enhance the service. This firm realizes that the issues are technical and guarantees to repair them. as reported from Brazzaville, Loïcia MartialIn Brazzaville, no neighborhood is saved load tapping…

The French Authorities and Société Générale have simply concluded an settlement to grant loans of as much as EUR 2 million (greater than FRF 1.3 billion) to small and medium-sized enterprises. Oxygen for these communities which might be going by way of tough occasions. These loans embody the Choose Africa Resilience assure. as…

This is very the case in North Africa. In Algeria and Morocco, press freedom continues to be hampered, whereas in Libya it is amazingly troublesome to follow the occupation. Convictions of journalists, blockages of on-line media, adoption of legal guidelines to prohibit freedom of knowledge ... Algeria is within the eyes of…

Within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), violence has elevated within the Benices area in latest months, inflicting important displacement of the inhabitants. After abandoning every little thing, a number of the displaced have nowhere to spend the night time after strolling miles. Some have taken refuge in colleges like Oicha, about thirty kilometers from Beni.…