Africa

Amadé Ouérémi was sentenced on Thursday, April 13, to life in prison by Abidjan's criminal court. This militia leader was responsible for the massacre of several hundred people on March 28 and 29, 2011 in Duékoué Carrefour. More than 800 dead according to the Red Cross, 300 according to the UN. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre…

The International Monetary Fund forecasts 3.4% of total sub-Saharan Africa growth in 2021 after a year 2020, marked by an unsurpassed recession of more than a quarter of a century of 1.9%. The IMF calls for increased efforts to enable Africa to vaccinate its population. Vaccines are one of the prerequisites for a return to…

The UN Security Council will meet on Thursday, April 15, in New York at the request of the United States to review the situation in Tigray province in northern Ethiopia. Diplomats will try to find a common position after learning that a new massacre involving the Eritrean army took place last Monday. Two issues are on the agenda of the UN Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in Ethiopia: access to civilian assistance, first but also the announced withdrawal of the Eritrean army from Tigray. However, this…

In France, the verdict has just been announced at the trial of the bombing of the French camp in Bouaké. At the end of almost three weeks of trial, the court has just sentenced the three defendants, Yury Sushkin, the Belarusian mercenary, Ange Gnanduillet and Patrice Ouei, the two Ivorian officers, to life in prison. With our…

Dominic Ongwen comes out of his silence. The former head of the LRA is still on trial in The Hague before the ICC, which in early February found him guilty of 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in northern Uganda between 2002 and 2005. As criminal hearings have taken room since Wednesday, this former trust man of Joseph Kony told his story and shares his problems and regrets.…

In traceable time for several years, the Belarusian Yuri Sushkin and the Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet Attualy, the alleged pilots and co-pilots in the rescue, are being tried in their absence for murder, attempted murder and aggravated destruction. Maximum penalty requested against them. With Laura Martel, of…

NGO published a report after arrests and violence due to the sexual orientation of the targeted. Cameroonian law only criminalizes the law, but the police use it to track down homosexuals or transgender people according to the organization, which condemns this penal provision, which is contrary to the Constitution and international treaties.…

Its goal is to find a way out of the inter-municipal clashes in the province, which have killed at least 144 people since early April. As early as January, murders had taken place in the city when pastors of Arab tribes had attacked their opponents in the Massalit peasant society. To show that he took the matter very seriously,…

The National Assembly's Defense Commission released its information report on Operation Barkhane on Wednesday. This is the first report to be tabled since the start of military operations in the area in 2013. Deputies are advocating a reorientation of Barkhane in the coming months by relying more on partner armies in the Sahel. A new doctrine which, according to the deputies, should no longer completely…

That is the feeling in Niger after the fire in the school in the Dutch district of Niamey on 13 April. A school and a kindergarten in the middle of a shopping field where many heavy trucks circulate. After the funeral of the 20 children who were killed in the accident, it is time for anger and questions. Parents and teachers' organizations want light to be shed on the causes of the fire.…