West Africa

The Basketball Africa League plans to play its very first season from 16 to 30 May 2021 in Kigali. The Basketball Africa League, created by the NBA and the International Federation (FIBA), was to start in March 2020 but had to give up due to the Covid pandemic. This time it's right? Will the Basketball Africa League (BAL)…

The joint force of the G5 Sahel, but also the Barkhane force, will therefore, from today, be able to benefit from significant military support to armed terrorist groups. This battalion was eagerly awaited in the central Sahel zone. The news was confirmed to RFI on Monday by the head of the G5 Sahel Joint Force, General Oumarou…

The preliminary number of two attacks last night in the northern Ivory Coast shows at least six dead. Five people were killed in clashes between defense and security forces and attackers qualified as "terrorists" by the General Staff in Kafolo. A gendarme was killed in a separate skirmish several kilometers east of this village.…

He is one of the survivors, and since 1984, at the opening of the Boiro camp, he has not stopped campaigning, so that the truth is known, so that the victims are rehabilitated, so that Guinea can be reconciled. with oneself. Really, until the last minute, even when I was sick. Abdoulaye Conté, President of the Association of Victims of Camp Boiro Leonard Vincent .

On November 6, 2004, two Soukhoï Su-25s from the Ivorian army bombed the French base in Bouaké. Results: 9 French soldiers and one American civilian killed and 38 French soldiers wounded. The aircraft was piloted by Belarusian mercenaries and was assisted by Ivorian co-pilots. Defendants who will be absent from this trial. More than 16 years after the events, the victims especially want to understand why France ordered the alleged perpetrators of this murderous attack to go away after the Togolese authorities arrested…

General Amadou Sanogon will not have waited long before speaking. The leader of the coup who fired President Amadou Toumani Touré on March 22, 2012, the former putchist is charged with murder and complicity in the assassination. But he has been free since mid-March after benefiting from a "law". National agreement ". This weekend in Ségou, 260 kilometers north of Bamako, he spoke to his supporters.…

On November 6, 2004, two Ivorian planes bombed a French camp for the Licorne force in Bouaké, Ivory Coast: nine French soldiers and one American civilian were killed, 38 people wounded. In retaliation, the French army destroyed the Ivorian air force. Tensions are rising between Paris and Abidjan. More than 16 years later, the trial of the persecuted pilots for murder, attempted murder and destruction of property will begin on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris, without the accused. The box will be empty. Of the…

The campaign for the presidential election on April 11 started on Friday in Benin. In the face of outgoing President Patrice Talon, no strong opponent. Major opposition figures have been disqualified by the National Autonomous Election Commission (Cena) and the Constitutional Court. A vote for which Patrice Talon is leading, after all a very active campaign on the ground. The posters have flourished, but the offer is small, there are only three candidates and their running mates. Today's poster is the result of…

In northeastern Nigeria, the large city of Maiduguri is once again deprived of electricity after sabotage of electrical infrastructure on Saturday, March 27, by the jihadists. This is the second time in a few months that the electricity grid supplying the capital of Borno State has been cut by the men of the Boko Haram group, who are active in the region. The jihadists blew up two power transmission towers on the high-voltage line connecting the city of Maiduguri with Damaturu, one of their strongholds. This attack,…

Francis Ngannou became world champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the most prestigious mixed martial arts (MMA) league in the world, on the night of March 27-28, 2021 in Las Vegas in front of the American Stipe Miocic. Revenge for this Cameroonian whose life has been a long series of attempts. Portrait. Francis Ngannou is world champion mixed…