Africa

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.…

In Niger, the governor of Diffa is asking NGO Acted to cease operations in this region in the south-east of the country. who acted categorically denies. The governor's letter had been circulating for two days on social networks. Reached by RFI, Acted confirmed receiving it on Wednesday.Issa Lemine accuses NGOs of maintaining…

In the Comoros, the Interior Minister made an update on Wednesday about the death of a retired soldier during an interrogation in a barracks. The case has shaken the country for a week as the body was buried without prayer and then exhumed by the family for identification. The opposition accuses the government of covering up a major mistake between the armed forces, led by the chief of staff, in violation of Islam, the country's constitutional religion. After canceling a stay abroad to return to ask about the…

The Minister for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness of France, Franck Riester, traveled to Nigeria from Monday 12 April to Wednesday 14 April, in particular to prepare for the May 18 Summit on Financing the African Economy and the Africa Summit - France from Montpellier, scheduled for July. After an exchange in Abuja with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Nigerian Governors' Forum, he went to Lagos on…