Central Africa

In digital or face-to-face type, the place will the flagship conferences for African tradition happen in Could? Listed here are 17 recommendations. Don't hesitate to ship us your "necessities" to fipageculture@yahoo.fr. Born in Asmara, Eritrea, Dawit L. Petros lives and works in New York. From 5 to 14 Could, in a showroom together with the Frieze New York…

In Gabon, the trial of Brice Laccruche Alihanga, former chief of employees of Ali Bongo, continues within the wake of a civil warfare. Despatched to jail 17 months in the past for embezzlement of public funds, cash laundering and embezzlement, the previous strongman in Gabon has appeared since final Friday as a consequence of doubts about his Gabon nationality.…

Within the Democratic Republic of Congo, no less than 14 journalists have obtained direct or oblique threats for skilled causes for the reason that starting of the 12 months, stories NGO Journaliste en hazard (JED). The group additionally recorded no less than 9 instances of journalists being attacked or tortured within the train of their career. JED sees a "worrying rise" in assaults on journalists and…

On Monday, the Minister of Finance of the Holy Union, Nicolas Kazadi, obtained 3 new IMF resident representatives, Gabriel Leost. He advised him that the Democratic Republic of Congo wished to become involved as quickly as potential in a program with the Worldwide Financial Fund and get pleasure from help that might exceed one and a half billion {dollars} over three years. Goal: to current its case to…

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.…