Africa

In this small West African country, a research group has found traces of a wild coffee that is believed to have disappeared since the early 1960s. in recent years through global warming. "We have been walking for two good hours now, on foot in the Kambui hills, and there we approach the garden to the wild stone shelf ...". Not…

Congolese military officers are said to have blown up the troops under their command to make money. Three of them are the subject of legal proceedings in Ituri because of these practices. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeAccording to the military prosecutor in Ituri province, three senior officials were…

Former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday by Abidjan's criminal court for "undermining state authority", "conspiracy" and "spreading false information". The other defendants received sentences ranging from 17 months to 20 years in prison. At the end of the hearing in Abidjan, Me Raoul…

In Chad, the twelve Russian and Lithuanian citizens, who are presented as tourists and arrested in the north of the country by the Chadian authorities, are now free to leave the country. They were arrested in the Chadian Sahara on June 13 and released after an investigation. They are twelve, eleven Russians, including two…

Some pieces of investigation and information that could be obtained from two suspects who were arrested a few days before the attack on Solhan and who after the interrogations in Ouagadougou a few days after the attack were able to reveal the information. The attackers were mostly children, for example between 12 and 14 years old. This is information we did not have at the time of the attack. Women had also played a role in indicating concessions or goals. But the most important information is that the interrogation…

In Chad, the murder of the prosecutor in Oum-Hadjer in the center of the country, on Wednesday, June 24, 2021, by a dispute, triggers the anger of the judges who do not feel safe. Maître Djonga Arafi, Secretary General of the Union of Chadian Magistrates, denies the lack of protection of judges and therefore the impossibility of properly exercising their judicial power. .

Annie Chebeya returned to the DRC on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, after eleven years in exile in Canada. She will respond to the invitation from a structure that retained her as the recipient of the "Mama Marthe Kasalu Prize", the widow of the historic opponent Étienne Tshisekedi and the mother of President Félix Tshisekedi. Annie Chebeya appeared, followed by Ghislain Bazana, son of her deceased power companion in an accident, murdered on June 1, 2010. Hugs, tears, crying ... A moment of intense emotion as Annie Chebeya…

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been in custody since Tuesday night. The former president, accused of corruption, was placed under an undertaking by decision of the investigating judge. He is accused of embezzling millions of public funds during his two terms, from 2008 to 2019. Accused in March, he was placed under house arrest in May. According to the prosecutor, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz did not respect the measures for his judicial control. The defense of the former Mauritanian president arose against the suspension of his…

Uprising yesterday, Wednesday 23 June, at the UN against the Russian allies of the Central African forces in the Security Council. Almost unanimously, diplomats criticized the Russian paramilitaries, the place they occupied in the conflict and the day-to-day management of the country. Earlier, they had been informed by the UN envoy to the Central African Republic and the head of Minusca, Mankeur Ndiaye,…

In Burundi, the head of diplomacy Albert Shingiro and the ambassador of the European Union, Claude Bochu, surrounded by his fellow Member States on Wednesday morning at a large hotel in Bujumbura, resume political dialogue with a view to lifting sanctions against Gitega. This dialogue, which has since stopped, resumed in February after Access by Nkurunziza's successor to power.…