West Africa

At least 19 civilians were killed in a French airstrike in central Mali in January, according to a UN report on Tuesday by Agence France-Presse (AFP), which added that the victims were protected under international law. On January 3, French warplanes crashed near the remote village of Bounti in circumstances that sparked controversy in the war-torn Sahel state. Residents of the village said the strike hit a wedding party and killed civilians. But the French military denied the allegations, saying it…

A quarter of the Mauritanian population is still without civil status. A continuing situation that deplores the parliamentarian and human rights activist, President of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA-Mauritania). Biram Dah Abeid on Monday, March 29, called on the authorities to put an end to "statelessness among these Mauritanians in their own country". He went to a registration center in Nouakchott to…

The information came to the headlines in the Ivorian press this Tuesday morning, March 30: "FACI, the armed forces on the Ivory Coast, are routing the attackers," Fraternité Matin exclaims."What happened in Kafolo and Kolobougou," says L'Intelligent. L'Intelligent, which takes up the army's statement that "during the night from Sunday to Monday, two FACI positions were hit by armed attacks. The first occurred in Kafolo and…

The first day of negotiations is Monday, March 29, in Paris during the Bouaké bombing. On November 6, 2004, two Ivorian army aircraft landed on a French base in this city in Côte d'Ivoire, killing 10 and wounding 38. The aircraft was piloted by Belarusian mercenaries and aided by Ivorian co-pilots. This day was devoted to the call of witnesses, the reminder of the facts and the first hearings.…

Carriages and horse-drawn carriages are still widely used in rural Senegal, but also in urban areas, for the transport of goods. The government will resume the application of an inter-ministerial decree from the end of 2016, but which has never been implemented. It prescribes "technical visits" for carriages and horse-drawn carriages or even "health visits" for horses.…

The investment of the elected Nigerian President, Mohamed Bazoum, will be held on Friday, April 2. The failed candidate, Mahamane Ousmane, continues to reject the result of the second round of the February 21 presidential election. On Monday, March 29, the leader of the opposition party RDR-Tchanji announced a new legal measure and called on his supporters to demonstrate peacefully from Tuesday.…

Nearly nine years after the burial of Timbuktu's tombs and five years after their reconstruction, the inhabitants have regained their religious treasures, inseparable from the very identity of "333 holy cities." From our special correspondent in Timbuktu, A few steps from Djingareyber's large mosque, the gates to a cemetery. On the sandy ground, sober sign shows the places of the graves. In the middle, three mausoleums of light stone rise by about two meters. Alpha Ibrahim Ben Essayouti, Deputy Imam of…

In Burkina Faso, Apollinaire Compaoré, the president of the employer, is he involved in smuggling to finance terrorist groups? In any case, this is the conclusion of five journalists from four countries, including Burkina Faso, after an investigation as part of the reporting project on organized crime and corruption. According…

First place was the only bet in this match in Group G between Egypt and the Comoros, two teams already qualified. The pharaohs did not hesitate to show who was the boss of this pool during the sixth and final day of the 2021 qualifier. Four goals in ten minutes! The Comoros team caught the Egyptian wave in the face at a…

Malawi managed to beat (1-0) Uganda, who were at a qualifying spot, to win, instead of Cranes, the second Group B ticket to Cameroon. It comes a long way from this Malawi team that won its third qualifier for CAN by beating Uganda who still had the advantages of the forecasts, after Burkina Faso, in this group B. The Cranes can…