West Africa

A minimum of 15 folks had been killed in a landslide on Saturday, Could 8, close to a gold mine close to Siguiri, the most recent gold-mining tragedy in northeastern Guinea. The victims had been shocked when all the pieces appeared calm on this area the place hundreds of unlawful miners, who're going through main survival issues, flock from all neighboring nations.…

In Côte d'Ivoire, the Ministry of Well being has simply launched the 2021 marketing campaign towards smoking. The theme for this yr is compliance with the Anti-Tobacco Act, which was adopted in 2019. The aim is to enhance consciousness of the risks of tobacco, which causes the deaths of 5,000 folks every year. as reported from…

Two weeks after the invention of the primary circumstances of fowl flu in Mali, the response continues and vigilance will increase. From subsequent week, investigative assignments shall be taken out once more in the sphere to restrict the illness and monitor the measures taken to restrict it. There are an estimated 43 million poultry within the nation, all species mixed.…

On April 30, police seized tens of hundreds of cartridges in central Benin. On the identical day, Togolese police additionally bought maintain of cartridges carried by a Beninar to Benin. The courtroom's particular prosecutor for the repression of financial and vacationer crimes (Criet) has launched an investigation. as…

In Senegal, fifteen collective teams inside the multi-struggle group Doyna ("that is sufficient" in Wolof) gathered on Saturday, Could 8, on the obelisk web site in Dakar to sentence land hypothesis, demolition of homes, unfair dismissals, recruitment of consumer lists. , and so forth. Everybody condemns that they're victims of injustice and demand compensation from the state. A rally approved and…

Kidnapping is on the rise in Nigeria. About thirty Afaka college students, kidnapped two months in the past, have been lastly reunited with their households two days in the past. One among these former hostages, Fatima, who was pregnant throughout the kidnapping, instructed RFI a Hausa concerning the ordeal they have been subjected to throughout their captivity.…

It was a primary since his outing in 2014. On Wednesday, Could 5, Burkina Faso's former president, Blaise Compaoré, met in Abidjan, Burkinabe's reconciliation minister, Zephirin Diabré. The latter was the bearer of a message from President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. At the center of the discussions: the query of Blaise Compaoré's potential return to his nation.…

For Gilles Yabi, it's tough to search out the precise second to speak about essentially the most elementary points, maybe even essentially the most elementary, for the longer term of African nations, about training within the broadest sense of the time period. It's tough to get out of the circulation of safety data, particularly…

In Nigeria, kidnappings are on the rise. A number of universities are actually taking measures to make sure the security of their college students, scale back working hours or shut dormitories. Whereas about 30 college students had been launched on Wednesday, Could 5, within the state of Kaduna, others are nonetheless prisoners.…

The paralysis of the judiciary, linked to a three-week strike by bailiffs and attorneys, makes the archive of opponents of the third time period very unsure. For the reason that presidential election in October, which marked the re-election of Alpha Condé for a 3rd time period, a number of hundred folks have been in custody.…