West Africa

The dean of Malian veterans and formally 100-year-old, Corporal Kaba Doumbia died on Monday 26 April. Recipient of the silver medal from the French Memorial 2020, he was a knight of the Legion of Honor since 2014 and the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the touchdown of Provence. His funeral will happen on Wednesday, April 28 in Bamako.…

New rebound in Senegal within the case of "Doudou Faye" which had aroused a wave of feelings within the nation. The younger teenager who dreamed of changing into a soccer participant had died at sea whereas on a secret canoe, on his approach to Europe final autumn. Two suspects had been arrested in February and met the choose on Tuesday, April 27 throughout a courtroom listening to in Mbour, 80…

Three European journalists, two Spaniards and an Irishman, were killed in the West African nation of Burkina Faso after their anti-poaching patrol was transferred. "It is very unfortunate, but the three Westerners were executed by terrorists," said a senior security source in the West African nation. He did not specify who was behind Monday's attack on the group, which included soldiers, rangers and foreign journalists, in the eastern region of Fada N'Gourma-Pama. At least three people were injured and one Burkinabe…

Amine Abba Sidick was Chad's overseas minister when Idriss Déby Itno was killed. For the reason that dissolution of the federal government, he isn't any longer a minister however explains the day-to-day work. Previous to that, this determine in Chad's political life had been Chad's ambassador to France and head of the civilian cupboard for the presidency. Amine Abba Sidick sees the transition interval as a course of that results in the…

In Burkina Faso, in keeping with safety sources, the three Europeans captured yesterday Monday within the jap a part of the nation have been executed. They have been lacking after an assault when an armed command attacked an anti-poaching patrol consisting of Burkinabé troopers and rangers, together with trainers and Western journalists.…

Albert Pahimi Padacké placed on his Prime Minister's jacket, notesChad Information. Yesterday, he was appointed head of the transitional authorities by CMT, the Transitional Navy Council. The president of the Nationwide Rally of Chadian Democrats will not be a novice on this place, the web site remembers. He was the final Prime Minister of President Idriss Déby earlier than the abolition of the Prime Minister's workplace in…

In her newest ebook, Sophie Bouillon shares her ardour for Lagos, a West African metropolis the place she works for AFP. Between the strains, the portrait of a metropolis through the Covid disaster, and what it takes to stay there. “In the event you suppose you might be robust, come to Lagos. You will see. "As a spotlight of…

In Burkina Faso, an assault focused a blended patrol of troopers and foresters within the jap area. The ambush came about between Fada Ngourma and Pama on Monday, April 26, with three injured and 4 folks nonetheless lacking. A search is underway to seek out them in response to the identical sources. as reported from…

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz went to the court docket in Nouakchott on Monday, April 26, on the summoning of the court docket's anti-corruption choose. Since March 12, ex-president Aziz and a dozen personalities, together with two of his sons-in-law and two of his former prime ministers, have been accused of embezzlement, corruption, waste and embezzlement of public property.…

He was 100 years previous. Mali's oldest veteran, Corporal Kaba Doumbia, died on Monday 26 April. Built-in into the French military in 1940, he participated within the liberation of France at the tip of World Conflict II. The French embassy in Bamako has additionally expressed its unhappiness and seemed again on the journey of a person who has handed the instances.…