West Africa

A G5 Sahel summit will take place on Friday, July 9, through video conferencing, the first since the announcement of the gradual end of Operation Barkhane. Emmanuel Macron will attend the meeting. He should take the opportunity to clarify the contours of this decoupling. The French president will attend this Elysee summit. But he will not be alone, he will have Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerian president,…

Starvation is one of the most serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the new report from NGO Oxfam, published on July 9, 2021, the number of people suffering from hunger has increased sixfold since the pandemic began. Currently, seven people die every minute of the pandemic around the world. But NGO Oxfam…

"This time there is no more doubt: the dreaded third wave is here," exclaimsYoung Africaand the numbers start to rise again. Exacerbated by the spread of the famous Delta variant originally identified in India, the infection still affects the continent in a very heterogeneous way. The figures are therefore quite worrying in the north, especially in Egypt and Tunisia (where we have just passed the milestone of 400,000 cases).…

On July 8, 2020, Amadou Gon Coulibaly disappeared from a heart attack, when he had been called the RHDP candidate for the presidential election by Alassane Ouattara. The Presidential Party pays tribute to him and on this occasion the Heart and the Spirit appears, his autobiography written with the journalists Zyad Limam and Venance Konan. A book would accompany his presidential campaign and allow him to change his image of a tight technocrat. .

Since the disappearance of Idriss Deby, Togo has organized meetings with Chadian rebel groups to prepare for a national dialogue with the new authorities in N'Djamena. The existence of these consultations was leaked to the Chadian press and RFI was able to confirm it. A slow and difficult process. Togo has intensified talks…

Burkina Faso will create a label for bicycle chicken. The Ministries of Trade and Animal Resources announced this week. Chicken is one of the most consumed meats by Burkinabè households. In Ouagadougou alone, 80,000 chickens are used every day. But bicycle chicken faces stiff competition from imported chickens, hence the need for a label.…

Morocco announces an agreement with Sinopharm to produce the Chinese pharmaceutical group's vaccine against Covid-19 on its soil. A co-operation agreement was signed on Monday 5 July in the presence of King Mohammed VI. The country is one of the five African countries announcing the production of coronavirus vaccines. An important contribution for the continent, while the difficulties in delivering…

In Mali, we still have no news from Father Léon Dougnon, who was abducted on June 21 in the Mopti region. He and four other Christians were abducted on the way to Bandiagara. After mediation between community leaders in the area and the kidnappers, the four faithful who followed him were released quickly, but not Father Léon.…

In Mauritania, former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was placed on probation by a judge from the anti-corruption pole of the Nouakchott-Ouest Prosecutor's Office on 22 June. The man who ruled Mauritania between 2008 and 2019 was accused on March 12 of corruption, embezzlement of public property and money laundering. Facts he has always denied.…

The future ex-wife of Laurent Gbagbo speaks in an open letter and a video published on social networks. A letter that has been picked up and commented on by many Ivorian media, including the daily Our way, near the FPI, the former presidential party. Here is what this paper says: “After the scenes that were considered humiliating towards him at the airport during the arrival of her future ex-husband, June 17, and the media…