West Africa

The territorial conflict between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea is once again in the spotlight. These two Central African countries have contested the sovereignty of three islands since the 1970s. Following the failure of a UN mediation, Libreville and Malabo had agreed to resort to the International Court of Justice to resolve this dispute.…

The United Nations Population Fund publishes "State of the World Population 2021" on Wednesday 14 April. With the title this year My body belongs to me, and the report is devoted for the first time to the power and freedom that women have at their disposal over their bodies, without coercion or violence, in different parts of the world, and especially in Africa.…

A new stage threatens the already rich history of Congolese rumba: within a few months, Unesco will examine the file jointly submitted by the authorities in two Congos so that this popular African music becomes part of humanity's intangible heritage and joins reggae among others. or tango. This candidacy, which was drafted during the very serious international colloquium on rumba in March 2020, has not only a symbolic dimension; it also reflects the awareness of a cultural richness to be valued, defended and…

The former Burkinabe president, in exile in Côte d'Ivoire, will be tried for "complicity" in the assassination of Thomas Sankara. The trial date has not yet been set, but the case has been referred to the Ouagadougou Military Court and the charges have been confirmed. 34 years after the assassination of Thomas Sankara on October 15, 1987, and 12 of his accomplices during the coup that brought Blaise Compaoré to power, the…

He was a personality from northern Mali. Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati, current president of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), was also Secretary General of the Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA). After the murder on Tuesday in Bamako, people are wondering about the perpetrators of the crime. as reported from Bamako, Serge…

After the then Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and the Minister of the Interior Dominique de Villepin, Michèle Alliot-Marie was at the helm on Tuesday afternoon, April 13. With always the same question at the heart of the hearings: why did France release the alleged pilots made available by Togo, who, however, had warned through the channels of three ministries? The testimony of the former Minister…

The solidarity economy every day in Mali, it is this company that sets up food kiosks in the city of Ségou. Frills. They serve froufrou fritters and millet groats cheaply. Local food, short circuits and, above all, prices aimed at combating the hunger that is affecting more and more residents of Ségou. Abidjan, Ivory Coast,…

This week, the RFI offers you a series of four reports on the unprecedented ceasefire agreement reached on March 14 over a one-month period between the jihadists in Katiba Macina, linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and the Dozo fighters who met they try to protect certain villages, especially Farabougou, in the district of Nionos (region Ségou). The Malian state, which mandated the negotiators,…

In Mozambique, on March 24, a group claiming to be international jihadists carried out a spectacular attack on the city of Palma in the north of the country. Since then, the situation is far from normal again and the security crisis is added to the humanitarian crisis. Dino Mahtani, Deputy Director of the Africa Program for the International Crisis Group, visited Cabo Delgado in early 2021 to investigate this jihadist group that has…

The Citizen Coalition for the Sahel presented its first report on Tuesday (April 13), "Sahel, what needs to change". Objective: to make an assessment of the failure of the anti-terrorist policy pursued for eight years now and to put the protection of civilians back to the core of the strategy. The numbers speak for themselves.…