West Africa

Togo's legislators approved a constitutional change to a parliamentary system, despite opposition concerns about President Gnassingbe's continued hold on power. The reform has sparked criticism from dissenting parties.

On Thursday, three French diplomats were ordered to leave Burkina Faso within 48 hours. The ruling junta deemed them persona non grata due to alleged "subversive activities," a claim Paris refutes. Tensions between the nations have escalated since Burkina Faso's second coup in 2022. France denies allegations of wrongdoing.

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye visited Mauritania, his first trip abroad since March election. The two presidencies confirmed.

Burkina Faso recently ejected three French diplomats for engaging in "subversive activities," as stated in a foreign ministry document obtained by FRANCE 24.

In Senegal's latest news, a historic haul of cocaine has been revealed - the largest ever seized on land. A truck near the Mali border was found carrying over a ton of the illegal substance.

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram captured 276 girls from a school in Chibok. Unfortunately, 80 girls remain missing. The Nigerian government has struggled to prevent further abductions by Boko Haram and criminal groups. Many more children have been taken since the initial kidnapping.

On Saturday, thousands in Niger's capital demanded the swift exit of US troops from the north. This follows Niamey's military junta terminating a pact with Washington.

Sixty years ago, on March 18, 1962, the Evian Agreement was signed between representatives of the French Government and those of the Provisional Government of Algeria (GPRA). The text defined the conditions for Algeria's independence and put an end to almost eight years of decolonization war. A conflict that had consequences in neighboring countries, especially in Mali, where then-President Modibo Keïta had supported the Algerian national liberation front. Our guest is the Malian journalist Tiegoum Boubeye Maïga.

It has been almost a week since the Senegalese army launched a military operation in Casamance, in the south of the country. Since Sunday, March 13, according to the staff, this operation aims to dismantle the MFDC bases of the rebel leader Salif Sadio's…

Accidents have been linked in recent weeks in several gold mines in Guinea. On March 1, more than a dozen people died in the collapse of a gallery in the Kounsitel area, in the north of the country. RFI was able to visit a handicraft gold-plating place near…