Africa

Paris has confirmed the death of Baye Ag Bakabo, the head of the command who kidnapped our colleagues Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon on November 2, 2013 in Kidal in northern Mali. The information had been circulating since Wednesday, June 9, but was then not official. Several members of Baye Ag Bakabo's family had announced his death on social media, but neither Barkhane nor Elysee, who was contacted at the time, had confirmed. According to our information, Baye Ag Bakabo was killed near the town of Aguelhok where…

Coronavirus restrictions have had an overwhelming effect on African countries, and in Kenya more than 1.7 million people lost their jobs during the first three months of the pandemic, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics reported. Thousands of parents were laid off across the continent, forcing many families into extreme poverty. With schools closed for the most part for the past two years due to COVID-19-related restrictions, Koech Kipsiele, 13, was forced to work to help the family bring food to…

President Macron wants to "deeply transform" the French military presence in the Sahel. He explained this on Thursday during a press conference. Specifically, this means a reduction of French personnel in the region and the "end of Operation Barkhane as an external operation", in favor of an international alliance associating states in the region and Europeans. Explanations.…

The decree, dated June 8, appeared yesterday Thursday in the French official newspaper. This makes the archipelago the glorious islands, which belong to the scattered islands, the 170th French nature reserve. The glorious islands, located in the Mozambique Channel, and French possession, were still part of the islets that Madagascar claimed against France since 1973. The claim was repeated by President…

The cabinet meeting of the Council of Ministers on Thursday 10 June adopted a draft decree on "administrative abuse of elephants". The decree also recognizes the use of the right to self-defense by populations that are victims of the human-elephant conflict, which has become recurring in the country. as reported from…

The arrests took place on Thursday evening, two days before the early elections. A vote in which Algerian voters are called to elect 407 deputies for the future National Assembly. It is rejected by Hirak and by part of the opposition. One of the challenges will also be turnout, low during the 2019 presidential election and the referendum on the revision of the constitution at the end of last year.…

A warlord suspected of murdering about 20 environmentalists in Virunga National Park has been arrested in northern Kivu, still under siege. Jackson Muhukambuto is also said to be an ivory poacher. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeJackson Muhukambuto was arrested earlier this week on the outskirts of the town…

Sentenced in the first instance to eleven months 'imprisonment, after two years' imprisonment required by the prosecutor on appeal, the head of mobilization and the branches of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution was finally sentenced to 3 years in prison by Judge Saïdou Kéita, the first president of the Court of Appeal. A verdict that human rights defenders and civil society actors…

The Supreme Judicial Council banned judges on Wednesday, June 9, from holding political positions in the executive body. This council advocates the independence of the judiciary and its impartiality in the face of ongoing political quarrels. This resolution comes after the dismissal on Tuesday by the head of the national authority for the fight against corruption of the Prime Minister. On Tuesday, the…

In Senegal, the agricultural sector employs about 60% of the working population. But does it attract young people, especially those affected by unemployment? In the river valley, the organizers of the first international agricultural fair in the north, which was held last weekend at the Diamadammen, on the Mauritanian border, want to believe it.…