West Africa

The first council of ministers in the new government was held on Wednesday 29 September. An announcement of the final press release in the evening did not go unnoticed and is already generating many comments. President Macky Sall is calling on the Seals'…

The visit had been postponed for 48 hours at the request of the Malian transitional government. The presidents of Togo, Ghana and Gambia will plead for the release of the 46 Ivorian soldiers still detained in Bamako.…

On the program tonight: Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara is finally in court for a long-awaited trial, 13 years after the death of more than 150 people in a stadium in Conakry. Kenyan authorities are trying to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country. And the latest Hollywood blockbuster "The Woman King" tells the story of the Dahomey Amazons - an all-female army who have sworn to protect their kingdom in present-day Benin.

Guinea on Wednesday opened a historic trial of 11 men, including the country's former dictator, Moussa Dadis Camara, accused of being responsible for the 2009 stadium massacre and mass rapes by Guinean security forces.…

"The Woman King," a Hollywood superproduction with a $100 million budget, features a unit of Amazons of Dahomey. The film, which was shown as a preview in a cinema in Cotonou a few days ago, will be released on Wednesday, September 28, on screens in France.…

On September 28, 2009, thousands of people gathered in the Conakry stadium to express their rejection of the presidential candidacy of Moussa Dadis Camara, then head of the junta. The demonstration was violently suppressed by the security forces. The…

Eleven soldiers were found dead and around 50 civilians are missing after an attack by Islamist militants on a convoy of 150 vehicles supplying a town in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the government said on Tuesday.…

In tonight's edition: the former head of the Guinean military junta is imprisoned on the eve of his trial. He and 10 others are charged after more than 150 people were murdered and more than 100 women raped at an opposition rally in 2009. Elsewhere, Nigeria continues to grapple with its worst flooding ever for a decade as a panel around the country recommends dozens of police be fired or prosecuted for their role in torture and extrajudicial executions.

Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and several co-defendants were sent to jail on Tuesday, a day before their trial for the 2009 stadium massacre began, their lawyers said. The prosecutor had "our…

Former Guinean leader Moussa Dadis Camara and five of his co-defendants were sent to prison on Tuesday, before going on trial from Wednesday for the abuses committed at a Conakry stadium on September 28, 2009.…