Central Africa

Nearly 70 villages and at least 46,000 people have been affected by flooding in northern Congo-Brazzaville in the province of Likouala after heavy rains continued to fall this week in the area. An assessment mission went to the area to estimate the humanitarian consequences, while many victims were already trying to recover from the floods last year.…

That's $ 6.8 billion. We are far from the 11 billion that was planned for the year 2020. This budget is now being sent to the National Assembly for examination and adoption. We are back in numbers close to previous years. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient LigodiGovernment sources explain this reduction with the slowdown in…

Despite President Tshisekedi's decision to suspend the installation of Minembwe municipality, this issue continues to provoke strong reactions in Congolese society. Report at Panzi hospital in Bukavu. With our special correspondent in Bukavu, Sonia RolleyThis municipality located in the highlands of the southern Kivu was…

The community of Congolese Banyamulenge refugees, numbering in the thousands, has complained of having been the victim of a real hunt for ten days. The Interior Ministry and public security have launched a real campaign against those living in cities when they have to be in one of the five refugee camps in the country. The leaders of this community of Rwandophonic Congolese refugees fleeing the province…

African countries and their creditors have their eyes set on Zambia, which in the coming weeks could become the first defaulted country since the Covid-19 crisis. Lusaka this week asked its creditors to postpone the deadlines for a tranche of three billion euros of loans in Eurobonds. At the same time, Zambia is reluctant to settle arrears of payments to its Chinese creditors. If there is no agreement, the country says it will no longer be able to pay its debt. The Zambian case highlights the inadequacy of the measures…

Because the starting of its army cooperation with the Central African authorities within the Faustin-Archange Touadéra three years in the past, the Russian presence has been increasingly seen: army coaching, help for the FACA of their deployment on the bottom, safety of mines and much more. 'to the presidency ... A army cooperation with a promising future, in response to the latter.…

In an announcement launched on October 12, UN human rights consultants known as on Cameroon to launch opponent Maurice Kamto, the chief of the MRC, whose residence is surrounded by police and gendarmerie, and other people arrested throughout the September 22 demonstrations. In an announcement learn by the Minister of Communications and authorities spokesman René Emmanuel Sadi, the Cameroonian authorities imagine that March 22 was not "peaceable". .

It's the legal reopening on Thursday, October 15th. On Wednesday, President Felix Tshisekedi received the members of the Office of the Supreme Magistrates' Council, while the conflict continues with the presidents of the two chambers over the appointment of two constitutional judges by presidential decree. At the exit in front of the press, the Attorney General near the Constitutional Court and the Head of Delegation assured that these appointments were made in accordance with the Constitution. Why this framing? "The…

Exchanges with the Congolese head of state Denis Sassou Nguesso, whose country is requesting the inclusion of Rumba on the list of the intangible heritage of humanity; signing cooperation agreements and visits to a sickle cell treatment center: the visit of Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of Unesco, had almost no rest on Wednesday in Brazzaville, where she inaugurated a channel education network in a high school. as reported from Brazzaville It is during the songs and dances of the teachers and students that Madame…

Prohibited by Kinshasa municipality, the march, organized by the opposition on Wednesday, was dispersed by police with tear gas. Opponent Martin Fayulu could not go to the equalizer. From our correspondent in Kinshasa, While Martin Fayulu and his activists met in a square in a popular district east of the capital Congoleserat 8 local time the demonstration did not last long. Following the decision of the city governor, who had banned this march, the police had already mobilized early in the morning. Activists trying…