North Africa

Nine-time CAF Champions League winner and title holder, Al Ahly secured second place in Group A behind Simba thanks to his draw obtained this Saturday, April 3, on Al Merreikh's ground (2-2). In Group C, Horoya and Kaizer Chiefs will play a final within a week, while in Group D, Esperance de Tunis lost for the first time and Mouloudia is still threatened by Zamalek.…

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia on Saturday launched a new round of talks mediated by the African Union (AU) on the disputed Blue Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project on the Blue Nile, which nations in subsequent countries fear could lead to further water shortages. The three-day talks held by President Felix Tshisekedi take place in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the current chairman of the AU. Egypt's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Cairo wants the negotiations to…

Kinshasa welcomes, from this Saturday, April 3 through Monday, a new round of negotiations around the construction site for the Renaissance dam. The Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese foreign ministers will be present. Ethiopia has been building Africa's largest dam since 2011 on the Nile. Sudan and Egypt in particular fear an impact on their vital water reserves. Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi…

Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a strongman in eastern Libya, has been weakened since the summer of 2020 after failing to seize the capital Tripoli, trying to impose another on the Libyan political scene. After his appearance a few days ago, in military fatigue in the midst of his forces, it was in civilian clothes that he turned, on…

Of more than 2,000 articles published between the beginning of the pandemic and in September last year, only 4% were written by African researchers, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal. An absence that risks weakening the response to the pandemic on the continent. If Africa has historically lagged…

Tout Puissant Mazembe dropped a little more, in Group B of the African Champions League, on April 2, 2021. The Congolese club lost 2-0 against the Algerian formation of Belouizdad. Previously, Al Hilal (Sudan) and Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) made it 0-0. All results from match day 5 in the group stage here. 2020-2021 CAF…

Where will the flagship meetings of African cultures take place in digital form or face to face in March? Here are eleven suggestions. Do not hesitate to send us your "essentials" to fipageculture@yahoo.fr. The New African Film Festival of Washington DC celebrates its 17th online edition, expanded to audiences across the…

Demonstration in Tunisia to ask Italy to take back its waste. An environmental scandal against a background of corruption shakes the country. A total of 282 containers of Italian household waste were imported illegally last year. Senior customs officials were fired, as was the Minister of the Environment, imprisoned since the end of 2020. And despite legal proceedings, the 7,800 tonnes of rubbish bins…

After terrorizing Libya's Tarhuna for several years during their rule over the city, the Kaniyat militia has still not been held accountable for its war crimes as authorities continue to locate mass graves. "They spared no child, no woman, no old man," said Mohamed Amer, mourning the murdered under the reign of terror by six brothers who ruled the Libyan city with bloodshed. "I am the father of the martyr Moaid, cold-blooded killed by the criminal gang Kaniyat," said Amer, a silver-haired father in his…

In Libya, the release, on Wednesday 31 March, was welcomed by more than a hundred prisoners held since the beginning of Marshal Khalifa Haftar's abortive offensive to take the capital in 2019, locally and by the UN. It was on the initiative of a local dialogue group that these prisoners of war were released on Wednesday, March 31. All dressed in white in traditional Libyan clothes. They were greeted by the "family" ululations. The ceremony, which took place in the town of Zawiya, 70 km from Tripoli, in western Libya, was…