Africa

The leader of the Somali jihadist group for the Shebabs released a second message in a month on Saturday night. In a speech to his supporters, Ahmed Diriye attacks Djibouti in particular this time, targeting "American and French interests" in the country. And he also accuses the Djibouti president. This is not the first time the Shebabs have attacked Djibouti. Their targets are the many foreign military bases - French and American, but also Italian, Japanese, Turkish and Chinese - which the country hosts. Their latest…

The city of Palma in northeastern Mozambique is being evacuated following the terrorist attack that began on Wednesday, March 24. The jihadists from the Al-Shabab group, affiliated with the Islamic State group, had taken control of this city with 75,000 inhabitants in the province of Cabo Delgado. Mozambican security forces are now there, facing "terrorist pockets", according to a national television bulletin. According to the Mozambican government, dozens of people have been killed since Wednesday in Palma. Dozens of…

It is another step towards peace in Sudan. This Sunday, March 28, in southern Sudan, the Transitional Authorities signed a declaration of principles with the People's Movement for Liberation in North Sudan (SPLM-N), one of the last rebel groups in the country. The text will serve as a basis for future peace negotiations. The SPLM-N, led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu, had refused in October to join the agreements signed in Juba with various rebel groups until Khartoum agreed to separate the state from the religion. It was an…

The World Food Program (WFP) is sounding the alarm in Angola. Southwest of the country is experiencing a severe drought - the worst in 40 years - and famine is threatening thousands of families whose farms no longer produce anything. The drought that is raging in Kwanza-Sul, Benguela, Huambo or Huila has begun to be felt. In these provinces of southwestern Angola, the difficulties are such that families have begun to leave these regions. "We are seeing a phenomenon of drought in the middle of the rainy season," warns…

In Chad, dozens of party leaders and members of civil society were arrested this Saturday, March 27, while protesting against a sixth term by the head of state, Idriss Deby Itno, before being released at the end of the day. This eighth week of demonstration responded to the call for general dissatisfaction launched by the opposition and civil society associations. Some districts in N'Djamena were upset this Saturday morning and then in the late afternoon by protesters with clear slogans: "No to the sixth term!" No to the…

In a video broadcast this Saturday night, March 27, the leader of Somali radical Islamists called on the Shebabs to strike "American and French interests" in Djibouti. The appeal was lodged within two weeks the presidential election in Djibouti. In a video released on Saturday night, Somali Sheba's chief Abu Obaida Ahmad Omar attacks President Ismaël Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999, seeking a fifth term, which he is likely to win, in the April 9 vote. Ismaël Omar Guelleh "transformed Djibouti into a military base…

No involvement but "heavy and overwhelming responsibility" in the genocide of the Tutsis. This is the conclusion of the Duclert report on France's role in Rwanda between 1990 and 1994. A document delivered on Friday 26 March to Emmanuel Macron. This report, written by a commission of historians led by Vincent Duclert, points to Paris' "blindness" to the genocide of the "racist, corrupt and violent" regime of Hutu President Juvénal…

The former Madagascar's head of state, Didier Ratsiraka, died on Sunday morning, March 28, at the age of 84. The announcement was made on his Facebook page. He had been president of Madagascar twice, from 1975 to 1993, then from 1997 to 2002. The naval officer, nicknamed "the Red Admiral" for his socialist policies, had been in hospital earlier this week for a routine check-up. .…

Following the announcement of Congolese justice on Thursday, on the launch of an investigation into General John Numbi, the former police chief suspected of sponsoring this double murder of Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana from the NGO's voiceless voice in 2010, legal proceedings are back to normal. development. This is stated by the magistrates at the Kinshasa Military Prosecutor's Office. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe General John Numbi was invited to appear on March 17, but he…

After being taken into care at a hospital in Bamako, a woman who was pregnant with septuplates, with the help of the government, was to leave Bamako this Saturday, March 27, for a medical evacuation in Morocco, but at the last minute she did not start again. Malia's Minister of Health and Social Development, Dr. Fanta Siby, was himself at the airport to organize the departure of the young woman who was pregnant with septum spots. A Malian doctor would even accompany him. All arrangements were made. But at the last…