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Paul Rusesabagina’s relatives are preparing to lodge a complaint in Belgium
This whole procedure is completely absurd, I do not know if you can imagine, but to kidnap someone and get it approved by a state governed by the rule of law which is the Rwandan state, and the rest is of the same kind, that is, he can not even meet his lawyer . There are two lawyers appointed by the government, we waited three months before these lawyers were withdrawn by the same government. The president of Kigali could meet him, but now it is no longer possible because he is in Covid. So there…
the testimony of newcomers from Tigray on the Sudanese border
Communication has been re-established in the capital Tigray, Mekele and several other cities in the region. But many areas are still cut off from the world, international organizations worry. The visit of Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok this Sunday in Addis Ababa was canceled without explanation. Mediation unnecessary for the Ethiopian government, which claims that the events in Tigray are an…
The Prime Minister condemns the military strangulation of the economy
The Sudanese Prime Minister renews his criticism of the military's importance in the national economy, a persistence that risks pointing out the high-ranking officers who want to retain their benefits, after entering into a historic agreement in August 2019 for a gradual transfer of power to civilians. Abdallah Hamdok is determined to end the throttling of senior military and intelligence officials over…
After the break with Somalia, the rapprochement with Somaliland grew to become increasingly burning
The kitchen is burning between Kenya and Somalia. Mogadishu severed diplomatic ties with its southern neighbor on Tuesday, December 14. Kenyan diplomats have seven days to go away Somali territory. Within the course of, Nairobi introduced that the consulate will open subsequent March in Somaliland, this self-proclaimed impartial area that Somalia considers a part of its territory. Within the context…
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN number two, received by Félix Tshisekedi
How can I help the Congolese people meet the various challenges they face? The issue was raised during the hearing that President Félix Tshisekedi granted on Tuesday, December 15, to UN Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix. The meeting took place at the City of the African Union in Kinshasa.
as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda…
Peter Maurer (ICRC): In Tigray, “we can imagine there were slips on all sides”
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is so far the only humanitarian organization that has been able to gain access to the Ethiopian region of Tigray after a month of conflict. A supply convoy from the hospital in the provincial capital Mekele reached the city on Monday, December 14. Our guest is the President of the ICRC, Peter Maurer. He was in Paris to meet with French President…
with the kidnapping of high school students in Kankara, the new expansion of Boko Haram
The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…
still in question, President Alpha Condé is calling for reconciliation
President Alpha Condé called on the Guineans for reconciliation and dialogue after more than a year of deadly protest, during his inaugural address on Tuesday, December 15, before an audience of African heads of state for a third term qualified as "d" shameful of his main opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo Alpha Condé, 82, begins a third period that is questioned by his opponents.…
much political controversy surrounding the reform of the Dakar Charter
Should the city of Dakar be suppressed - administratively - as a society? The Minister of Territorial Collectives threw a stone at the dam. According to Oumar Guèye, Dakar, like four other cities in the country - Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque and Thiès "has no reason to exist". In the perspective of the next local elections, an important step before the 2024 presidential election, the issue raises, very…
banned from presidential elections, Bozizé wants to unite the opposition to Touadéra
Former President François Bozizé says he "accepts" the annulment of his presidential candidacy by the Constitutional Court and calls on the leaders of the opposition coalition, COD 2020, of which he is the current president, to unite around a single candidacy to defeat outgoing President Faustin-Archange Touadera.
François Bozizé assures him in a press release released on Tuesday, December 15: he "unreservedly follows the ruling of the Constitutional Court", which annulled his candidacy in the forthcoming presidential…