Eye on Africa

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…

In Mozambique, Palma, a small port city in Cabo Delgado, the victim of a coordinated attack by a jihadist group active in the province for more than three years. The group, which calls itself local Al-Shabab, launched its attack on Wednesday and took control of the city on Friday night. The number of accidents among the inhabitants is uncertain. Since Wednesday, there are thousands fleeing the area…

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.…

Despite differences, optimism was recorded in Somalia's difficult political talks MOGADISHU, Somalia - There has been some optimism in Somalia's ongoing negotiations in Mogadishu, and the international community continues to put pressure on various actors who have pulled the country back and forth in the midst of stalemate before the election. Leaders from all member states, the…

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 .

Somalia: Lower House meeting postponed after Saturday's chaos MOGADISHU, Somalia - The House of Commons has postponed a meeting scheduled for today , just a day after a chaotic session triggered by suspicion and counter-complaints over the intent, a move that led to the suspension of 15 MPs. A circular issued Sunday indicated that speaker Mohamed Mursal had postponed the meeting…

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…

Dozens of people were killed in coordinated extremist attacks in northern Mozambique's Palma city, the government said on Sunday, four days after the raid was launched, forcing the evacuation of thousands of survivors to safety in the provincial capital Pemba. Seven people were killed in an ambush during an operation to evacuate them from a hotel where they had sought refuge, it is said. "Last Wednesday, a group of terrorists sneaked into ... Palma and launched operations that resulted in the cowardly…

Al-Shabaab calls for attacks on Djibouti to host Western interests MOGADISHU, Somalia - Al-Shabaab could carry out deadly attacks in Djibouti, the Horn of Africa, where the United States and France have unlimited influence ahead of the long-awaited election in the Red Sea country, which hosts the U.S. Africa Command Team. Ahmed Omar Abu Ubaydah accused Djibouti in the latest sound…

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.…