West Africa

Ramadan begins this Tuesday, April 13, in Nigeria and, as every year, religious authorities ask wholesalers not to raise food prices disproportionately. The month of Ramadan often corresponds to a sharp rise in food prices, while the most populous country in Africa is already facing 17% inflation on food products. After a year of recession and the economic and health crisis, many Nigerians have become poor. Jamila, a Muslim from Togo, notes that the prices of corn or beans in recent times have more than doubled in the…

It is an unrivaled coalition of almost 50 Sahelian, West African and international organizations that will speak today. The "Citizen Coalition for the Sahel" presents, this Tuesday, April 13, a set of recommendations on dealing with the crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The text is entitled "Sahel: What must change". To talk about this report, Niagalé Bagayoko, co-author of the text, answers Laurent Correau's questions. .

This week, the RFI offers you a series of four reports on the unparalleled ceasefire agreement reached on March 14 over a one-month period between the jihadists in Katiba Macina, linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Dozo's fighters who confronted them. try to protect some villages, especially Farabougou, in the district of Nionos (region Ségou). The Malian state, which mandated the negotiators,…

Trafficking in counterfeit medicines in Africa has increased, especially since the 1980s. On 17 and 18 February 2020, the Lomé Declaration obliged seven countries on the continent to impose criminal sanctions to criminalize trafficking in human beings for substandard and counterfeit medicines. Last week, this topic was at the center of an online debate, initiated by the associations Les Afriques vous…

In Benin, nearly 5 million voters were called to the presidential election on Sunday, April 11. The largest opposition figures could not present themselves. The day after the election, several political camps reacted. With our special correspondent in Cotonou, Magali LagrangeThe day after first round of presidential elections…

The trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, which left ten dead (nine French soldiers and one American civilian), enters its third and final week on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris. The French politicians of the time will be heard as witnesses: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and three ministers.…

In Burkina Faso, the station "Ouaga Inter" gets a makeover. It has just been rebuilt with funding from the French Development Agency.

This week, RFI offers you a series of four reports on the unprecedented ceasefire agreement reached on March 14 for a period of one month between the jihadists in Katiba Macina, linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and the Dozo fighters who confronted them. try to protect some villages, especially Farabougou, in the district of Nionos (region Ségou). The Malian state, which mandated the…

Nearly 5 million voters were called to the polls this Sunday, April 11, in Benin for a presidential election against President Patrice Talon against Alassane Soumanou Djimba and Corentin Kohoué. Polling stations closed at 4 pm local time after a low turnout. At polling station number 5, in the EPP in Cadjehoun, the counting…

Several fish have been found dead off the Ghanaian coast in recent days, the cause of which is unknown. In neighboring Togo, these fish are on the market in some cities near the border. The first recovered are currently seized and destroyed. as reported from Lomé, Peter Sasou DogbéThis is the meat of dolphins and smoked tuna…