Central Africa

Civilian movements in eastern Congo demand peacekeepers who cannot stop the violence, according to them. Monusco replies that its role is on the contrary positive. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN mission in the country is responding to the demonstrations of recent days civil society pressure groups including the…

The press release released Monday night by Ali Darassa, head of the powerful UPC-armed group, arouses some skepticism. In this handwritten document verified by RFI, the rebel leader pledges to withdraw from the CPC uprising and says he wants to reinstate Khartoum's peace agreement, which he condemned in December for joining the uprising. But this statement sows confusion within the coalition and is…

Victory for millions of pygmies following the vote on Wednesday by the National Assembly on a bill that anchors positive discrimination in favor of indigenous peoples who were once marginalized. From free health care to legal costs and even high school costs, the bill still has to go through the Senate for second reading before being issued by President Felix Tshisekedi. But the initiators of the text…

The most important financiers of the G20, throughout this yr's presidency of Italy, spoke at a video convention alongside the World Financial institution and Worldwide Financial Fund's spring conferences. Finance ministers and central financial institution governors have promised not to finish measures to help economies prematurely. Additionally they referred to as for intensified assist to essentially…

Within the Democratic Republic of Congo, the centenary of the Kimbanguist Church, a Congolese Christian cult has attended by a whole bunch of hundreds of believers. On Tuesday, April 6, demonstrations had been held in the town of Nkamba, nicknamed New Jerusalem, within the province of Central Congo. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi, President of the Republic, later known as on Simon Kimbangu to unite earlier…

In Chad as candidates are combating for the presidential election on Sunday, April 11. The coronavirus epidemic has invited itself to the marketing campaign. One in every of the candidates fell in poor health a number of days earlier than the election and needed to promote in quarantine. That is the opposition chief, Félix Nialbe Romadoumngar from the URD, the Union for Renewal and Democracy. The…

In Chad, greater than 4 days earlier than the presidential election scheduled for subsequent Sunday. Six candidates are working towards incumbent President Idriss Deby Itno. With small means, they withdrew to the provinces, the place they tried to steer the folks to not supply one other mandate to the outgoing head of state, in energy for thirty years and asking for a brand new six-year mandate. After…

Although declared a "priority of priorities" in the early 1980s, agriculture did not allow Congo to be self-sufficient and restrict food imports. The authorities now want to intensify this agriculture in order to diversify the economy of the country, which is struggling to minimize its dependence on oil revenues. From our…

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday, April 6, validated the election of Denis Sassou-Nguesso in the vote on March 21. He received 88.40% of the votes instead of 88.57% of the votes, according to the preliminary results which the court modified somewhat after rejecting the appeals against the annulment of three opponents. as…

Here is the list of the 11 participants in the Marc-Vivien Foé RFI / France 24 award for the 2020/2021 season, which awards the best African player in Ligue 1. The final trio will be selected by a committee of journalists and announced on 29 April. Nayef AGUERD (RENNAIS STADIUM / MOROCCO)Transferred last summer from Dijon to Rennes, who graduated from the Mohammed…