Africa

A former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was arrested on Tuesday, April 20, in Brazzaville. An arrest at the request of the authorities in his country who suspect him of embezzlement of public funds. as reported from Brazzaville, Loïca MartialWilly Bakonga, the outgoing Minister of Education of the…

Chad's assassinated leader Idriss Deby Itno's son will take over as president instead of his father, according to a charter released by the presidency on Wednesday, while rebel forces targeted the state's capital N'Djamena and threatened to disrupt a country more vital. international efforts to combat extremists in Africa. According to the presidency, General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, 37, who was appointed transition leader on Tuesday as head of a military council after his father's death, will…

More than 650,000 children have been vaccinated against malaria across Kenya, Ghana and Malawi since the start of the pilot project two years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday. Global immunization and malaria advisory bodies are expected to meet in October to review vaccine data and consider whether to recommend wider use. The RTS, S vaccine is the only existing jab shown to reduce malaria in children. It acts against Plasmodium falciparum - the deadliest malaria parasite globally and the…

In recent days, internal tensions have grown on the Ivorian political scene. Battle of the chapel that some see as the forerunner of possible inheritance battles or in any case about the composition of the balance of power internally. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre PintoThese are two Unesdu Nouveau Réveil, the newspaper PDCI…

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Tuesday praised the future role of the African Union in establishing an "electoral process" in his country, after requesting mediation in Kinshasa by the president of the AU, Congolese Félix Tshisekedi. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethMohamed Abdullahi Farmajo called on…

In Ndjamena, a lead-up atmosphere reigned on Wednesday, April 21, the day after the announcement of Idriss Deby Itno, the president since 1990. The city is deserted and residents are torn between grief and anxiety. With our correspondents in Ndjamena, Aurélie Bazzara and Madjiasra NakoThe capital woke up on Wednesday at the dawn…

Saleh Kebzabo was minister during Idriss Deby's presidency in the late 1990s, before becoming one of his main opponents for the past two decades. He had chosen to boycott the presidential election on April 11, which he described as an "election finding". He is a guest at RFI. .

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda will meet again and for ten days before the International Court of Justice. In 2005, the UN Court of Justice had already declared Uganda guilty of interference in the Eastern DRC, occupied by the Ugandan army between 1998 and 2003. Kinshasa and Kampala should have agreed on the amount…

Dieudonné Kaluba Dibwa was elected on Tuesday, April 20 by his comrades to replace Benoît Lwamba, who resigned in July 2020 for health reasons and left the transition to Évariste Funga. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda Muzembe55 years old, Dieudonné Kaluba Dibwa holds a doctorate in law and is a university teacher.…

It was in Senegal where she had been in exile for 38 years that Germaine Ahidjo died. She died at the age of 89 and was buried in Yoff Cemetery in Dakar with her husband Ahmadou Ahidjo, the first president of independent Cameroon, who died in 1989. as reported from Dakar, Thea OllivierThe current Cameroonian president Paul Biya…