Africa

After being sentenced this week to 15 months in prison for contempt for justice, former President Jacob Zumaa ​​appealed to the Constitutional Court on Friday night and asked it to overturn its decision. Earlier this week, he was convicted by the same court of refusing to testify before a commission of inquiry into corruption. and this despite a ban on justice.…

The opponent gave a muscular speech on Friday, July 2, during a press release. He condemns the latest anti-terrorism laws. The leader of the Pastef Party accuses France of "neocolonialism" and once again warns President Macky Sall against a possible candidacy for a third term in 2024. After the riots in March and before the next election, Ousmane Sonko consolidates his political position. .…

Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda is due to be buried next Wednesday. At the podium, this Friday 2 July, the current president Edgar Lungu was whistled during his speech. Zambia is organizing a one-and-a-half-month presidential election in a tense climate "on the brink of a human rights crisis", according to Amnesty International, which criticizes the repressive methods of the six-year-old head of…

He was the last surviving freedom fighter. The father of Zambia's independence Kenneth Kaunda died on June 17, two weeks ago, at the age of 97. Zambia held its national funeral today in the presence of many leaders and representatives of the continent who had come to honor its memory. With our special correspondent in Lusaka,…

The northern province has been bloodied since November by a conflict that opposes the federal power in Addis Ababa, backed by the Eritrean army and militias of the Amhara ethnic group, and turned the former TPLF power into an armed group. . For a week now, the TPLF launched the offensive and took back a large majority of Tigray. The humanitarian situation is extremely difficult and many suspect Addis…

On Friday, July 2, 2021, the French Minister of Defense Florence Parly confirmed Allyhmoud ag Baye's death, aka Ikarey. Two weeks ago, the RFI announced the death of this cadre of Islamic State in Greater Sahara during a joint operation between the French and Nigerian armies and the European workforce Takouba in June in the Menaka region. Five other jihadists were neutralized and two relatives of Abu…

Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland and one of the world's few absolute monarchies, has called for calm and restraint as the largest democratic demonstrations in several years shook the South African kingdom.Protesters demand democratic reforms and accuse King Mswati III, who has ruled the small mountain nation for more than 30 years as an absolute monarch, of oppression. Rights groups accuse the royal family, including the king's 15 wives, of having a lavish lifestyle while many of the country's 1.1 million people live…

Burundi celebrated this Thursday, July 1, the 59th anniversary of its independence. Among the prominent guests are Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, but especially Rwanda's Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente. This is the first visit by a Rwandan head of state or government to Burundi since the deterioration of relations between the two neighbors in the mid-2010s.…

The Nigerian president is spending his first official trip to the insecure Diffa region. After visiting the soldiers, he will go this Friday, July 2, to the village of Baroua, where the people have abandoned their village for six years due to repeated attacks by Boko Haram. as reported from Niamey, Moussa KakaInstead of the No.…

Beninese justice sentenced a man on Tuesday, June 29, to 12 months in prison, including six months in prison, for "assault and battery" on three transgender people. This crime was perpetuated due to a lack of provisions in the penal code that punish "transphobia". On the night of April 30, at a birthday party in Cotonou, a group of people attacked three guests. These transgender women are attacked, beaten and naked. Only one of the attackers showed up at the hearing, his accomplices are on the run. .