Central Africa

In Gabon, the French oil company Perenco, the largest oil producer in the country, was accused and prosecuted by a prosecutor near the Court of First Instance in Port-Gentil, the country's economic capital. The oil company is sued by NGOs for environmental pollution. Perenco recognizes an unintentional oil spill, but not necessarily to the extent that NGOs have done.…

The 2021 campaign of 100 "young leaders" initiated by the Franco-African Foundation was unveiled on June 30 in Paris. The winners come from different sectors: banking, new technologies applied to medicine, media, development-oriented civil society or the productive sector. Like their predecessors, the 100 young leaders in the…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the plane landed from Paris with the remains of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo on the afternoon of Sunday 18 July at Kinshasa Airport. The former archbishop of the DRC capital died on July 11, aged 81, in Versailles, near the French capital. He will have spent a large part of his life fighting for democracy. Many personalities were present at Ndjili International…

A demonstration was held in Geneva on Saturday, July 17, near the hotel where the Cameroonian president has been staying for a week. Security forces were deployed to prevent access to the hotel where Paul Biya lived. The now famous BAS, an anti-sardine brigade, despite the ban by the Geneva Department of Population Security and Health, continued the demonstration.…

The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…

We are voting this Sunday, July 18, in Sao Tome and Principe, a small African archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, near the equator. Santoméer is called to the election to elect his new president. A first round without illusion against the background of a pandemic and marked by foreign debt. Nineteen candidates are on the starting line, but not the incumbent Evaristo Carvalho, who is not running again.…

The president of the Christian Democratic Party is facing new accusations of raping a minor. Eugène Diomi Ndongala, the then opponent of President Kabila, had already been accused of similar acts in 2014. Sentenced to ten years in prison, he had always declared his innocence and had been released in March 2019 thanks to Félix Tshisekedi coming to power. . Eugène Diomi Ndongala was arrested on Friday and released 24 hours later. With our special correspondent in Kinshasa, Sonia Rolley The police warned, in the words…

Will state doctors play the extensions of their strike observed for a week in the DRC General Assemblies of their various unions are expected to vote on Sunday. On Saturday, the ministers of civil administration and health presented proposals in hopes of ending the movement. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda Wa Kamanda According to what the doctors' unions in the public sector say they understand, the government is proposing a two-step solution to their demands. "We basically remembered that the government has told…

This Saturday, July 18, the summit of the CPLP, the community of Portuguese-speaking countries, ended in Luanda. Angola took over the rotating presidency of this organization of nine member states, including Mozambique. The conflict in Cabo Delgado, in the far north of the country, where Total suspended its gas project after a jihadist attack in early April, was one of the summits, but no concrete…

In the Central African Republic, President Touadéra began his re-entry on Friday, July 16. In his speech, he mentioned the creation of the Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Separation Commission (CVJRR), whose eleven commissioners swore in early July. The CVJRR is one of the recommendations to end the crisis in the Bangui Forum in 2015, which was addressed in the Khartoum Agreements of 2019. The eleven…