North Africa

As the diplomatic crisis continues between Morocco and Spain, the leader of the Polisario Front, the independent Sarhaoui Brahim Ghali, ill with Covid-19 and cancer, will be heard this Tuesday, June 1, by the judge of the 'National Audience Santiago Pedraz. He will be linked to two complaints against him in Spain. The character is at the heart of the dispute between Rabat and Madrid.…

The interim head of the Libyan government, Abdelhamid Dbeibah, has been on a new tour since Saturday, seeking support for his government. After Algiers and Rome, he is in Paris this Tuesday, he will meet President Macron this Tuesday night. The Libyan Prime Minister will be in Paris on Tuesday at the head of an impressive…

After almost 15 months without flights between France and Algeria, Air Algérie will reopen its flight connection between Paris and Algiers on Tuesday 1 June. Currently, Algerians in France have to make do with two flights a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. A partial reopening that frustrates members of the community, sometimes deprived of seeing their families for over a year and a half.…

Fatou Bensouda met with authorities and representatives of communities that are victims of the genocide. The Gambian lawyer is close to ending her term, but she continues to urge the transitional government to hand over to her suspects accused by the ICC of crimes committed in Darfur. With our regional correspondent in Nairobi,…

Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah called on Algeria to support reconciliation efforts in Libya. Dbeibah's call came after his meeting with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the capital Algiers on Sunday. According to Dbeibeh's office, the prime minister said Algeria "had not interfered in Libya's affairs for the past ten years", adding that "Libya sees Algeria as an older brother." Meanwhile, the Algerian Presidency confirmed in a statement that Dbeibah had asked Tebboune to participate in…

May 25, as every year, was World Africa Day celebrating the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which became the African Union in 2002. This year, May 25 was also the day chosen for the launch in Dakar of the first edition of RASA, the Alternative Report on Africa. What's new with this report? In fact, number 1…

In Tunisia, which is facing the country's very low breastfeeding rate revealed by a Unicef ​​study (13.5% 2018), women are trying to change the situation and increase awareness of the benefits of breast milk. At the mother's bubble, a start-up that prepares women for childbirth and breastfeeding, Dorra Ladjimi, breastfeeding…

Yesterday in Kigali, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged France's "responsibility" in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, but made no apology. So, some are happy, others are disappointed. But what does Vincent Duclert think, the author of the report that came out two months ago and which greatly inspired the speech that the French president gave yesterday. He answers questions from Christophe Boisbouvier.…

Algerian artist Kamel El Harrachi signs his second international album: "Nouara". © Laurent Hermouet Kamel El Harrachi, son of the huge Dahmane El Harrachi, creator of 130 titles including Ya Rayah, a globally danced chaabi hit, signs Nouara's second international album. This collection of 11 titles that gives pride to the pieces to his deceased father, that is, nine titles rearranged at the moment and the son's two…

Emmanuel Macron is on an official visit to Rwanda on Thursday 27 May. This rapprochement with Kigali is made possible in particular by the Ducler Commission's report on France's responsibility for the 1994 genocide. It was drawn up on the basis of easy access to the official archives of the time. Despite the promise of greater transparency, access to classified documents is still boring for researchers.…