Africa

France confirms that it has frozen its budget support to the Central African Republic and has also suspended its military cooperation. In Paris, the Ministry of Defense invokes an anti-French campaign led by Russia, in which the Central African authorities are said to be involved. Five cooperatives that have worked specifically…

He is the only French hostage in the world. French journalist Olivier Dubois was abducted in northern Mali exactly two months ago on Tuesday, June 8, while reporting in Gao, where he planned to interview a leader of the Islam and Muslim Support Group. Support meetings are organized today in Bamako and in Paris, Place de la République.…

The government has approved the gradual and orderly return of the displaced population after the volcanic eruption on 22 May. But the population returning to Goma risks facing several challenges, especially housing and especially the difficulties in supplying drinking water. The Congolese government is now studying the possibility of moving the city of Goma.…

In Senegal, they are found in most kitchens. Food broths will now be taxed at 25%. This is a new provision introduced by the amended budget law on the budget for 2021. The text was adopted by the last Council of Ministers. The measure is part of the budgetary measures to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. It remains to be seen if it will disrupt the habits.…

In Ethiopia, the conflict continues in Tigray province. It killed thousands of people and also caused significant damage. In particular, many infrastructures have been looted or destroyed. With our special correspondent in Aksum, Sebastien nemethThere are dozens of those waiting in a long line that stretches around the…

Congolese Prime Minister Sama Lukonde Kyenge ended a three-day visit to Goma on Monday, affected by a volcanic eruption on May 22. Eight million US dollars is needed, he said, to meet the urgent needs of the affected populations who had to evacuate Goma in a disaster. The Prime Minister has approved that these populations gradually return and promises that lessons will be learned ... He answers questions from Patient Ligodi. RFI: Why the Goma Volcanological Observatory (OVG) could not raise the warning before the outbreak…

Uncertain calm prevailed on Monday in South Darfur, located in southwestern Sudan, after clashes last week. Conflicts between two opposing tribes left 36 dead and forty wounded, according to Sudan's official agency Suna. Moussa Mahdi, the governor of the state of South Darfur, said joint forces were sent on Sunday to Oum Dafouk, the site of the conflict, located near the border with the Central African…

In Nigeria, while authorities suspended access to Twitter on Friday, June 4, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is asking the media to shut down their social networking accounts. They reacted. "All audiovisual media will be considered antipatriotic if it continues to use Twitter, which is shut down," the NBC statement…

Acquitted by the ICC, he still faces a sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of 329 billion CFA francs (approximately 500 million euros), in the so-called "case of BCEAO" ". The other convicts in this case have pulled benefit of an amnesty that they hope to see extended to Laurent Gbagbo. Of judgment intended for 18 January…

No conviction after more than a year of investigation and a trial before the Kinshasa-Gombe Tribunal de Grande Instance. The trial opened in early May in Makala Central Prison, where four of the six defendants were being held. The widow of the deceased and her mother-in-law who were charged with murder were acquitted by the judges, but the gray areas remain.…