West Africa

In a new video, the Islamic State of West Africa (Iswap), the Islamic State's arm for Boko Haram, claims that Abubakar Shekau's group has joined its ranks. Is this really the case? For Vincent Foucher, a researcher at the International Crisis Group, signals point in this direction, but still deserve to be refined. Six weeks…

In Dakar, an official ceremony took place on Tuesday, June 29 to launch the next Fespaco, which will take place from October 16 to 23 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Senegal is the guest of honor at the 27th edition of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival. Originally scheduled for February, this major cultural event has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.…

A former Liberian rebel commander, known as "General Butt Naked" and notorious for sacrificing children and engaging in battle in the nude, is now trying to find redemption by rescuing former child soldiers from drugs. One of the most feared figures to emerge from the West African country's civil war, Joshua Blahyi, sacrificed and cannibalized children. He would also fight naked in the belief that this permeated him with spiritual power and earned him the moniker "General Butt Naked." Massacres,…

The daily Addis Standardconfirms it: TDF, Tigray Defense Forces, took back the city of Mekelelundi, during the shouts of joy and the songs of the inhabitants. A little earlier, the Ethiopian newspaper details, the provincial administration of the province had seen its request for a ceasefire accepted by the federal government. A unilateral ceasefire, which is officially prescribed to allow farmers in the region to begin…

High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet calls on the Bamako authorities to conduct impartial investigations to combat impunity. Most of the killings and kidnappings are carried out by non-governmental armed groups, especially jihadists, but the Malian security and defense forces are also responsible for some of the human rights violations.…

Laurent Gbagbo returned to Abidjan on Tuesday, June 29, after less than forty-eight hours in his home country in the western part of the country. Before leaving the village of Mama, the former president attended a traditional "purification" ceremony in the morning, during which the traditional leaders symbolically washed him from his former condition of prisoners, marking his return to society. But this…

The Nigerian authorities announced on Tuesday (June 29) that they had arrested the leader of the independent movement Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. He was arrested on Sunday and "taken back to Nigeria" according to the country's justice minister. Nnamdi Kanu appeared in a court in Abuja on Tuesday that approved his detention until his "terrorism" trial began on July 26.…

On June 5, 2021, gunmen attacked this place in the eastern Yagha province, killing at least 130 people, according to authorities. On Monday, June 28, the prosecutor for FasoEmile Zerboa published a press release to take stock of the investigation. Investigated by the Special Brigade for Investigations Against Terrorism and the…

In Burkina Faso, the government has been the target of many critics since the jihadist attack that killed 132 people in Solhan, on the night of June 4-5, 2021. After civil society, it is the opposition that wants to demonstrate next Saturday, July 3. Mr Ousseni Tamboura is the Minister of Communications and spokesman for the Burkinabè Government. While in Paris, he answered questions from Chirstophe Boisbouvier. .

This is one of the biggest challenges in uniting memories between France and Algeria, a substance that has long been buried in the sands of the Sahara: the pollution of southern Algeria by French nuclear tests. More than fifty years after the last test in 1966, Algiers has just created an agency to rehabilitate the sites of the old nuclear tests.…