Africa

The number of Covid-19 pollutants has "significantly increased" since the beginning of this year, according to the WHO and the Ministry of Health. It is too early to talk about a "new wave", the organization believes. What worries the authorities is the increase in symptomatic cases and serious forms of the disease. WHO calls for "vigilance". The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 is still relatively low in the Central African Republic. 5170 since the epidemic began ... But it has risen sharply in recent weeks. And the…

The Movement for the Defense of Democracy (M2D) took stock of its demands on Friday 26 March. Following deadly protests in Senegal, the movement suspended its call for mobilization on March 12, but presented "in return" a list of ten demands. At the top of the list, M2D demanded the "unconditional" release of all prisoners marked "political" arrested in connection with the Ousmane Sonko affair. This demand has been partially met. On Friday, March 26, 19 people were released, after a series of releases since Wednesday,…

The Heads of State of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) decide on the harmonization of the costs of Covid-19 tests and the recognition of the tests carried out by the laboratories authorized to do so in their various countries. The validity of the tests is now five days for travelers in the WAEMU space from the day of sampling. The Heads of State of the Member States of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) have decided to harmonize the costs of Covid-19 screening tests for all travelers…

In connection with a second killer wave, the President of Madagascar met with the Madagascan National Academy of Medicine on Thursday. Andry Rajoelina finally agreed to give the green light for an antiquated vaccination on the Big Island. The Minister of Health has therefore officially requested a vaccine alliance for low- and middle-income countries, Gavi, to facilitate the Covax device. "The epidemiological developments, the emergence of new variants and the risk-benefit analysis of vaccines have led us to express…

A commission that spent almost two years exposing France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide concluded that Friday reacted too slowly to estimate the scale of the terror, which left more than 800,000 dead, but cleared the country of involvement in the massacre. The report said France was carrying "heavy and overwhelming responsibility" in the operation that led to the killings, which mainly claimed victims of Rwanda's ethnic minority in Tutsi. Persistent claims that France under then-President Francois…

A commission that spent almost two years exposing France's role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide concluded that it reacted too slowly to estimate the scale of the terror that left more than 800,000 dead but cleared the country of involvement in the massacre. The report said France was carrying "heavy and overwhelming responsibility" in the operation that led to the killings, which mainly claimed victims of Rwanda's ethnic minority in Tutsi. Persistent claims that France under then-President Francois Mitterrand did not do…

The nearly 1,200-page report from the Ducler Commission was officially handed over to Emmanuel Macron on Friday. Two years ago, the French president instructed about fifteen historians, gathered in a commission led by historian Vincent Duclert, to examine "the French archives relating to Rwanda and the genocide of the Tutsis" between 1990 and 1994. It stated the goal of establishing France's role in the Rwandan genocide seems to have been achieved. France bears "heavy and overwhelming responsibility" in the events…

While the Togolese press has in recent days repeated false information about the journalist for RFI's Africa service Pierre Firtion, the management of the channel wants to make an update. In a press release published on Friday, March 26, the RFI management states that no disciplinary action of any kind has been taken against him and that any statement to the contrary is a lie. The management of RFI…

Decades of poaching, shrinking habitats, ivory thieves, spear attacks and terrible droughts have destroyed the majestic elephants on the African continent, according to a report published Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warning that a species was found in rainforests. was a step away from extinction. In an update of its "red list" of endangered species, the IUCN emphasized the broad deterioration of the situation of elephants in most of Africa. Forest elephants on…

Six years after the trial of the Ndjamena court on March 25, 201), the victims of the Hissène Habré regime are still asking about the application of the sentences: forced labor for about twenty former DDS agents and payment of "compensation" 75 billion CFAF. A few weeks before the presidential election, the victims want to be heard by the candidates and hope to make things happen. The whistles from the victims of the Hissène Habré regime are shouting at passers-by in the Chagoua district of Ndjamena. They ask the…