Africa

The 37th "Vues d'Afrique" International Film Festival opened on Friday 9 April with an online ceremony, live from Montreal, Quebec, but also from the Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal, for "An audience around the world" . This second digital edition offers until April 18 one hundred films from more than 30 countries in Africa and the Caribbean.…

The Duclert Commission's report was officially handed over to President Paul Kagame on Friday, April 9 by Vincent Duclert himself. The text concludes that France has a heavy and overwhelming responsibility in the genocide of Tutsi, but excludes the idea of ​​complicity in the genocide. The French historian assured that he came as an independent researcher with no official assignment other than to…

Since the beginning of the week, demonstrations have multiplied across the country to challenge the outgoing president Patrice Talon, who is running for re-election, in front of two other candidates who are considered insignificant. In Savè, a city in the center of the country, Thursday was particularly tense: soldiers intervened to clear barricades on the Parakou axis and fired live ammunition at…

In a statement presented on Thursday in the capital Kinshasa, Congolese Catholic bishops gathered at the National Bishops' Conference in Congo (Cenco) confirmed that more than 6,000 people have been killed in the Beni region since 2013 and more than 2,000 in the neighboring province of Ituri 2020 in the violence raging in this part of Congo-Kinshasa. For the prelates, the current configuration of the army is a problem. And the solution to the crisis includes military operations under international coordination. .

In Chad, the Interior Ministry announces the arrest of several party leaders and activists who are said to be prepared to disrupt the presidential election next Sunday. In a statement released Thursday night, following warnings from the opposition indicating the arrest of several leaders of the protest, the Ministry of Public Security announces the dismantling of a terrorist network.…

Presidential elections in Djibouti on Friday 9 April. The head of state, Ismaël Omar Guelleh, is running for a fifth term. The opposition that challenges the electoral process boycotted. Before the president, in power since 1999, there is therefore only one candidate: Zakaria Ismail Farah, an almost unknown entrepreneur who runs as an independent. Djiboutier is called to the election in a tense context. The presidential election is being held in a security context that has deteriorated in recent months. Conflicts…

The archbishop's funeral of Lubumbashi is scheduled for Friday at Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral. Monsignor Jean Pierre Tafunga died on March 31 in South Africa of a heart attack, according to sources close to the Catholic Church. In Uvira, where he was bishop before 2011 as in Lubumbashi, this Catholic prelate fought for human values, democracy and human rights. He was a figure in the province.…

In the Ivory Coast, the trial of the Duekoué-Carrefour massacre continues on March 28 and 29, 2011 at the Abidjan Criminal Court. The sixth day of the hearing this Thursday with the hearing of the last witnesses. There was only one accused in the box: Amadé Ouérémi, accused of carrying out the murders with her men, during which more than 800 people were killed according to the Red Cross. The former…

On the eighth day of the Bouaké bombing, the court on Thursday examined the identification and statements of the three accused, Belarusian Yury Sushkin and Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet Attualy, suspected of having pilot and co-pilot Sukhois during the attack. . In the absence of defendants in the box, the President read the statements of the Ivorian officers heard in November 2005 by an…

The deputies targeting this request for waiver of parliamentary immunity are Abdul Karim Meckassaoua, Anicet Georges Dologuélé and Martin Ziguélé, all three presidential candidates in December, and the elected opposition Simplice Aurélien Zingas. And this in connection with legal proceedings against former President Bozizé according to a letter from the Ministry of Justice.…