West Africa

After the draw of the Africa Cup of Nations 2021 (postponed to 2022), which was held at the Yaoundé Congress Center, this Tuesday, August 17, coaches, federation presidents and some legends about African football reacted to the microphone in RFI. CAN 2021 has already been launched. 52 matches await lovers of African football from January 9 to February 6, 2022 in Cameroon. The attraction of this issue took place this Tuesday, August 17 in Yaoundé under the direction of Nigerian journalist Mimi Fawaz and Cameroonian…

With the Covid-19 pandemic, African tourist countries are going through a deep crisis. Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa and Senegal have seen international customers disappear and local economies hit hard. A new sector may restore the taste for travel: e-tourism, an interactive virtual visitor experience. A young start, Maghreb Experience, thus offers to discover mythical places in Algeria, Morocco and…

Former Burkinabè president in exile, Blaise Compaoré, will be tried from October 11 for the murder of Thomas Sankara, the man he overthrew in a coup in 1987, prosecutors announced on Tuesday. military. Compaoré and…

The Ivorian health authorities continue to vaccinate against the Ebola virus. During this vaccination day, the authorities focused on a district in Abdijan in Allahkro where the young Guinean passed before being hospitalized. Allahkro, a slum-like neighborhood, was the focal point of the vaccination campaign. This is where the…

The draw for the Africa Cup of Nations 2021 (postponed until 2022) took place on Tuesday 17 August at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The host country meets BurkinaFaso in the opening match on January 9. Title holder Algeria must challenge the Ivory Coast. The 24 qualified selections are fixed. They know their…

This is a first for students in the Sahara region Taoudéni, in northern Mali. One hundred students take the test that opens them, perhaps the doors to the school. The trials were organized in Timbuktu, where their families have been displaced since the early 2010s. The exam began on Monday with the dictation-question test.…

Gunmen killed 37 civilians in a flashpoint region in western Niger where hundreds have died in extremist attacks this year, local sources said on Tuesday. The perpetrators "arrived by motorcycle" in the village of Darey-Daye in the Tillaberi region on Monday afternoon as people were working in the fields, a local official said. "The fee is very high - there were 37 dead, including four women and 13 children," the source said. A local journalist confirmed the charge and described the attack as "very…

An attack by armed men on motorcycles took place on Monday 16 August in the village of Darey-Daye, in the Niger region of Tillabéri. More than 37 civilian victims will be lamented, including 4 women and 13 minors. An event that is not isolated in this region where the jihadists have experienced serious setbacks in recent months.…

Following the August 8 attacks on several Malian towns attributed to the jihadists, near the border with Niger, which killed 42 civilians, there are now many displaced civilians. More than a thousand people have left their villages to go to Labbézanga, very close to the Niger border, or more within Malian territory. Voluntary organizations went there.…

A cholera epidemic has raged in Niger for several weeks, particularly in the regions of Maradi and Zinder, which border Nigeria, a country also affected by the disease. Niger's Minister of Public Health, if he wants to be optimistic, urges the population to mobilize. According to the authorities, 600 cases have been identified…