West Africa

Three weeks after the Solhan massacre in Burkina Faso, the Burkinabè government assigned the attack to the support group for Islam and Muslims, linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. What GSIM denies. Now it is their Islamic State rivals who are communicating on the subject. In its latest Al-Naba propaganda review, the…

In Senegal, an important security device was placed near the National Assembly on Friday, June 25, where draft amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code must be reviewed by deputies. The majority assures that it is about "strengthening the fight against terrorism". The opposition condemns "liberticidal" texts against the right to demonstrate.…

On 22 June 2021, Gabon became the first African country to be paid for by international funds to help it continue its efforts to protect the forests on its territory. The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI), an organization launched in 2015 by the UN, awarded Gabon $ 17 million. "Today the economy" portrays Lee White. This 50-year-old, of British descent, has lived in Gabon for 32 years and has stopped taking his nationality. He has therefore been Gabon's Minister for Water and Forests, the Sea and the Environment…

The project to promote integrated management and the economy for solid waste (Promoged) was officially launched on Thursday 24 June in Mbeubeuss, a giant landfill in the city of Malika, on the outskirts of Dakar. as reported from Dakar,Charlotte idracIt is an open dump at the gate to Dakar: the Mbeubeuss website, which opened in…

Every year, the country loses about 247,000 hectares of forest. A very worrying situation according to the Ministry of the Environment that requires a change in behavior. In connection with the international tree fair that is currently taking place in Ouagadougou, specialists explain to the population the various techniques for preserving nature.…

In this small West African country, a research group has found traces of a wild coffee that is believed to have disappeared since the early 1960s. in recent years through global warming. "We have been walking for two good hours now, on foot in the Kambui hills, and there we approach the garden to the wild stone shelf ...". Not…

Former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday by Abidjan's criminal court for "undermining state authority", "conspiracy" and "spreading false information". The other defendants received sentences ranging from 17 months to 20 years in prison. At the end of the hearing in Abidjan, Me Raoul…

In Tambacounda, a city 500 kilometers east of the Senegalese capital, the Dakar-Bamako train has not run since 2018. In April last year, the Minister of Transport announced that traffic would resume in December 2021 to Tambacounda, failing to rehabilitate rails to Mali. A promise that the people were waiting for while the train brought life to the whole region which was more isolated.…

This Wednesday, Senegal recalled the June 23, 2011 movement. This popular protest movement that had led then-President Abdoulaye Wade to abandon its constitutional reform project. It is a crucial moment in the country's political history. This anniversary is celebrated in the division with two separate events in Dakar. as…

In Mali, the five Christians who were kidnapped were released on Monday morning, Wednesday 23 June. Until now, we had no news from Ségué's parish priest, near Mopti, and the four believers who had taken him to San, the Ségou region, to attend a funeral. They had never reached their destination. Their abduction was not claimed,…