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On Monday, April 19, the Supreme Court dismissed the Advocate General's appeal and confirmed the abandonment of the proceedings against several personalities, including former Prime Minister Boubou Cissé and radio host Ras Bath, who since December have been accused of plotting a coup. State with mysterious contours against the state. Five of the 7 defendants who have been imprisoned since December have…

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), launched on Monday, April 19, in Kinshasa, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19. Despite the controversy and controversy that the AstraZeneca vaccine has sparked around the world and the media, the Congolese authorities have kept it for the campaign, after an initial launch, as a precautionary measure. The green light was given during a ceremony, in the absence…

Conflicts continue in Kanem province, where fighting has already taken place on Saturday afternoon, April 17. Chadia's armed forces have been fighting for a week with rebel columns of facts, Front for Alternation and Concord, for entry into the north of the country from their rear bases in Libya a week ago. In an interview with RFI exclusively, the head of Fact Mahamat Mahadi Ali admitted that his columns had been forced to pursue "a strategic withdrawal". According to our information, the fighting continued on Sunday…

At least 14 civilians and a police officer have died in the latest ethnic violence in Ethiopia's Amhara region, officials said on Monday, increasing to hundreds. Dozens of homes have burned to the ground and thousands of civilians have been displaced since just Wednesday, many of them now housed in schools and stadiums, officials said. The Ethiopian military said on Sunday that it was sending troops to try to calm the situation, which has exacerbated security concerns ahead of the national elections…

A Turkish charity on Monday donated 750 food packages to vulnerable Muslims in southern Sudan during the holy month of Ramadan. The Turkish Organization for Co-operation and Coordination (TIKA) handed over food parcels containing cooking oil, beans, rice, sugar and cornmeal to the Islamic Council of South Sudan in the capital Juba. Turkish Ambassador to South Sudan Erdem Mutaf said they would continue working with the Council to reach vulnerable people in remote areas. "This is the fifth day in a row…

France made possible the genocide against Tutsi, a genocide that was nevertheless predictable: here is the main conclusion of the report on the role that France ordered in 2017 by the Rwandan government from a US law firm and was published on Monday 19 April in Kigali. A report which, like that of the Ducler Commission, concludes that the French state has a heavy responsibility, but not that it is…

The French-Algerian memory is once again in the spotlight. On Sunday, April 18, President Macron estimated in the columns of the newspaper Le Figaro that "the desire for reconciliation" was widely shared "in Algeria," despite some opposition. "On the Algerian side, very hostile voices are heard. very critical. According to…

The army claims to have killed more than 300 rebels in the fighting on Saturday against a column of facts, the front for change and compliance in Chad. Ndjamena also reports five deaths in its ranks. On the side of facts, we recognize this Monday morning that one of the columns of the uprising, a column consisting of some thirty vehicles, has been missing since the fighting on Saturday. Meanwhile, in…

GALKAYO, Somalia - A number of top Al-Shabaab commanders were arrested in Central Somalia on Sunday, officials said, in what could be a major milestone in the fight against the al-Qaeda-linked group that is wreaking havoc in central and southern Somalia. Galmudug's security minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi and Mudug governor Abdiladif Muse Nur jointly said security forces in the two states had arrested senior Al-Shabaab members, but did not reveal their details. In recent months, Mudug has been heavily influenced by the…

This Monday afternoon, Rwanda publishes its own report on France's role in Rwanda before, during and after the genocide against the Tutsis, three weeks after the publication in France of the Duclert report on the same subject. If the French report had been entrusted to historians, the Rwandan investigation was carried out by a US law firm.…