Africa

Sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt for justice, the former South African president should finally not be arrested before at least July 12. The Constitutional Court will hear his appeal. Jacob Zuma had claimed that at the age of 79 and during a period of Covid-19, a stay in prison would amount to the death penalty. On Saturday in front of his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, he made a brief…

A report published in early July by a group of associations reports threats to individual freedoms acquired in Tunisia for 2020-2021. as reported from Tunis, Lilia blaisePunishing hatred on social networks is not punished, but in return it is punished to express oneself freely, especially when an Internet user criticizes…

In Ethiopia, the Human Rights Commission, independent but linked to the federal authorities, expresses "its deep concern" over the situation of civilians in the Tigray region and calls for "urgent measures to ensure their safety and security", in a rare press release published on Saturday 3 July . This institution, which is currently conducting investigations with the UN on crimes committed during the…

The last batch of the Asrazeneca vaccine will end in the DRC on 11 July. The country had received one million 700 million doses thanks to the Covax initiative. As a result of the delay and other logistical problems, 1,300,000 had been redistributed to other countries. And of the remaining 400,000 doses, less than 100,000 have been used to date. The rest will be destroyed. And questions are asked about the rest of the campaign and who has already received the first dose. Today we need to quickly find at least 50,000…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), public finances are still not healthy. Following the resumption of the consolidation of civil servants 'census in April last year, Congolese Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Lihau confirmed at the Council of Ministers' meeting this weekend that the payroll lists of civil servants and agents for the State are full of duplicates, fictitious agents losing $ 240…

In Nigeria, a demonstration in favor of the creation of a "Yoruba" nation was brutally spread in Lagos on Saturday, July 3. It was activist Sunday Igboho - known for his speeches encouraging ethnic hatred of Fulani shepherds - who called on his supporters to meet in the Nigerian economic capital. But the activist was the target of a raid two days ago by Nigerian security services at his home in Ibadan…

Noël Akossi Bendjo is back in Ivory Coast after three years in exile. The former mayor of the municipality of Plateau landed on Saturday, July 3 in Abidjan after a long stay in Paris. This high figure in the PDCI had chosen to stay out of the country after being accused of embezzlement of public funds and convicted in the absence of Ivorian justice. Accusations that Noël Akossi Bendjo has always denied…

In Senegal, the debate on the application of the law criminalizing rape and pedophilia has returned to the table since January 2020. It all started after the rape complaint from a 15-year-old girl against the son of a well-known journalist, the young man who is currently under arrest. The Senegalese feminist collective was mobilized on Saturday, July 3, in Dakar to support all women victims of violence…

The French government has removed Benin, Ghana and Senegal from the list of so-called safe countries in OFPRA, the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons in France. In the latter two countries, the goal is to protect LGBT citizens who are exposed to discrimination. Asylum seekers from these three West African countries in France now have the opportunity to appeal if their…

The UN mission in Libya has decided to announce the night of July 2-3 to the failure of the inter-Libyan talks in Geneva. Delegates from Libya's political dialogue forum and UN mediators met for four days in the Swiss capital. The discussions were therefore fruitless. The various participants simply failed to agree on the methods of holding a presidential and legislative election in December next year.…