Africa

It is an important production sharing agreement that Nigeria has just signed with the multinational oil companies operating in the country. An agreement that paves the way for investments that can reach 10 billion dollars. It is the culmination of two years of arm wrestling between NNPC - the Nigerian company that manages…

After Kigali, Emmanuel Macron continued his mini-African tour of South Africa. He arrived in Pretoria last Friday for a visit focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa is the country on the most affected continent. Emmanuel Macron and Cyril Ramaphosa have launched an appeal to the international community for the production of vaccines.…

Malia's constitutional court, which on Friday declared Colonel Assimi Goïta head of state and interim president to bring civilians back to power, indicates a court ruling completing the second coup led by an officer and the military in nine months. The ruling of the Malian Constitutional Court states that the Vice-President of…

In Tunisia, which is facing the country's very low breastfeeding rate revealed by a Unicef ​​study (13.5% 2018), women are trying to change the situation and increase awareness of the benefits of breast milk. At the mother's bubble, a start-up that prepares women for childbirth and breastfeeding, Dorra Ladjimi, breastfeeding…

Nearly 400,000 people fled to the city of Goma on Thursday, threatened by a new eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano. With our special correspondent in Rubavu, Laure broulardThey are a few thousand who have arrived since Thursday at the Rwandan border, sometimes at the end of long walks and loaded with everything they could take…

The Timbuktu Institute in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation presented its report on the security situation in the Kédougou region, in south-eastern Senegal, a border area between Mali and Guinea, on 27 May 27 May. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracThe "battle for the east" will take place, and we must prepare…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a three-week negotiation marathon, governments and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegations agreed on the content of a three-year program. If this agreement is validated by the IMF's management and board, the DRC can start receiving an initial payment of about $ 1.5 billion from mid-July. Congolese Minister of Finance Nicolas Kazadi discusses the…

After Rwanda, Emmanuel Macron is in South Africa this Friday 28 May. A journey with a focus on health, while this country is the one that has been hit hardest by the Covid crisis on the African continent. With our special correspondent in Pretoria, Pierre FirtionAs soon as they arrived in South Africa, Emmanuel Macron was…

Should Laurent Gbagbo be welcomed triumphantly or should he return discreetly to the Ivory Coast? For 24 hours, and the publication of the website Africa Intelligence, of an article confirming that the former president will return at the end of June "on cunning", agitates the issue and takes a political turn in Abidjan. as…

After a three-week negotiation marathon, delegations from the Congolese government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed on the content of a three-year program. If this agreement is validated by the IMF's management and board, the DRC can start receiving an initial payment from mid-June on the planned approximately 1.5 billion dollars.…