Central Africa

In Gabon, the government no longer wants the gas discovered in the oil fields to be burned. Libreville, which is facing a continuous decline in its oil production, also wants to increase the gas sector to make it a useful resource for the country's development and not a source of pollution as is the case today. From our…

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), launched on Monday, April 19, in Kinshasa, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19. Despite the controversy and controversy that the AstraZeneca vaccine has sparked around the world and the media, the Congolese authorities have kept it for the campaign, after an initial launch, as a precautionary measure. The green light was given during a ceremony, in the absence…

Conflicts continue in Kanem province, where fighting has already taken place on Saturday afternoon, April 17. Chadia's armed forces have been fighting for a week with rebel columns of facts, Front for Alternation and Concord, for entry into the north of the country from their rear bases in Libya a week ago. In an interview with RFI exclusively, the head of Fact Mahamat Mahadi Ali admitted that his columns had been forced to pursue "a strategic withdrawal". According to our information, the fighting continued on Sunday…

The army claims to have killed more than 300 rebels in the fighting on Saturday against a column of facts, the front for change and compliance in Chad. Ndjamena also reports five deaths in its ranks. On the side of facts, we recognize this Monday morning that one of the columns of the uprising, a column consisting of some thirty vehicles, has been missing since the fighting on Saturday. Meanwhile, in…

"Idriss Déby between the ballot box and the rebels' cannon," says Walfau Senegal. "While the first tendencies in the presidential election in Chad are largely favorable to him, we read, Idriss Déby sees the country he claims to lead for a sixth term being attacked in the north."Attacked by the rebels from the facts, the front of the alternation and Chad's concorde. They say they want to end what they see as a "relentless…

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) each have their own strategies, but some countries do not wait for them to obtain directly from manufacturers, receive donations or produce locally under foreign patents. Two countries in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, have decided to fund research to find their own vaccine against coronavirus. The Egyptian…

In the Central African Republic, national consultations begin on Monday morning to prepare for the major Republican dialogue announced by President Faustin-Archange Touadéra in March last year. The president was re-elected after controversial elections, which had been disrupted by a coalition of armed groups, the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), since December. The start of this dialogue had long…

Fighting erupted on Saturday between Chadian national forces and rebels from the Front for Alternation and Concord in Chad. In this context, several opposition parties and civil society organizations signed a call for an end to the fire this weekend. They also ask Idriss Déby to launch an inclusive national dialogue to ease tensions and leave Chadia's president for a week to decide.…

About a hundred deputies, mostly from Joseph Kabila's political family, criticize the new government, which they consider representative. They would have liked to be better rewarded after participating in the dismissal of the former Office of the National Assembly and the confiscation of the former Prime Minister. They call their movement the Collective of Revolutionaries of the Sacred Union and hope…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially launches its coronavirus vaccination campaign this Monday, April 19th. The ceremony will take place at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kinshasa. This means that the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were inoculated on 2 March via the Covax mechanism. as…