Central Africa

The deputies targeting this request for waiver of parliamentary immunity are Abdul Karim Meckassaoua, Anicet Georges Dologuélé and Martin Ziguélé, all three presidential candidates in December, and the elected opposition Simplice Aurélien Zingas. And this in connection with legal proceedings against former President Bozizé according to a letter from the Ministry of Justice.…

Just 48 hours before the April 11 presidential election. Ten candidates are participating, including President Idriss Déby, who is participating in a sixth term. And among them, a woman, a first in the country. This is Lydie Beassemda, from the PID (Party for Integrated Democracy and Independence). In a country where women are largely underrepresented, even in politics.…

Melina Ngoundou Mouelé has emerged from unemployment, which affects 35% of young Gabonese thanks to the cultivation of sugar cane used to make a local beverage known as Musungu, a beverage highly valued by men in Libreville. Young woman who has successfully returned to earth. .

Cameroon's women's team will meet Chile on April 10 and 13, 2021 in Antalya (Turkey) during an intercontinental qualifier for the Olympic Games. Cameroon will try to land the ultimate ticket to Tokyo football tournaments. On March 10, 2020, Cameroonian football players fell from the top. The Indomitable Lionesses lost 2-1 to…

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…