Africa

Three days after the intoxication of more than 150 bathers, on Sunday afternoon in Ténès, the Algerian Ministry of the Interior announced in a press release on Wednesday, July 7, that they are incriminating chlorine spilled by municipal services in a wadi floating in the sea. Following biological analyzes of the samples taken at…

Laurent Gbagbo continues his stay in Kinshasa. The former Ivorian president met on Tuesday, July 6, in Kinshasa with his former comrades and prisoners from the International Criminal Court (ICC). A total of six Congolese, including former warlords, were invited to this reunion. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient LigodiLaurent…

The Belgian government yesterday (Tuesday) presented a roadmap for listing the objects illegally acquired in the Congo from 1885 to 1960. A global approach to preparing potential refunds without waiting for a formal request from the Congolese authorities. Belgium currently has in its federal collections about 85,000 objects from…

In Mali, we still have no news from Father Léon Dougnon, who was abducted on June 21 in the Mopti region. He and four other Christians were abducted on the way to Bandiagara. After mediation between community leaders in the area and the kidnappers, the four faithful who followed him were released quickly, but not Father Léon.…

Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi was appointed on Monday by President Félix Tshisekedi to replace Deogratias Mutombo. The new manager has had her job excluded for her while the outgoing leaders are suspected by several non-corruption organizations of having led the bank to fraudulent practices. as reported from Kinshasa, Pascal MulegwaMain…

In Mauritania, former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was placed on probation by a judge from the anti-corruption pole of the Nouakchott-Ouest Prosecutor's Office on 22 June. The man who ruled Mauritania between 2008 and 2019 was accused on March 12 of corruption, embezzlement of public property and money laundering. Facts he has always denied.…

Mathurin Ovono Ebe, president of the Omar Bongo University section of the National Union of Teachers and Researchers (SNEC), claims to have been "kidnapped" and "beaten" at night by armed strangers when he returned home around 7 p.m. as reported from Libreville, Yves-Laurent GomaProfessor Mathurin Ovono Ebe's story cools my…

The future ex-wife of Laurent Gbagbo speaks in an open letter and a video published on social networks. A letter that has been picked up and commented on by many Ivorian media, including the daily Our way, near the FPI, the former presidential party. Here is what this paper says: “After the scenes that were considered humiliating towards him at the airport during the arrival of her future ex-husband, June 17, and the media…

Of the eight Mauritian athletes who will compete in the Olympics in Tokyo, some have a chance to make a splash. To see in particular, boxer Merven Clair, 27, for his second Olympic participation and seventh in the world in his category, 65 kg. RFI met him during a training session at the National Boxing Center in Vacoas. From…

More than 150 people became ill after swimming in the sea on Sunday, in Ténès, on the Mediterranean coast, 200 kilometers west of Algiers. Many families had gathered on Sunday 4 July on the beach in Ténès on the Mediterranean coast for the opening of the summer season. By the end of the afternoon, dozens of swimmers began…