Africa

How can I help the Congolese people meet the various challenges they face? The issue was raised during the hearing that President Félix Tshisekedi granted on Tuesday, December 15, to UN Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix. The meeting took place at the City of the African Union in Kinshasa. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is so far the only humanitarian organization that has been able to gain access to the Ethiopian region of Tigray after a month of conflict. A supply convoy from the hospital in the provincial capital Mekele reached the city on Monday, December 14. Our guest is the President of the ICRC, Peter Maurer. He was in Paris to meet with French President…

The Boko Haram group claimed responsibility for the abduction of at least 333 high school students this Tuesday, December 15, in the state of Katsina in northwestern Nigeria. This mass kidnapping, reminiscent of the abduction of 276 high school girls from Chibok in 2014 in Borno State, is the first incident of this magnitude in western Nigeria, until it was spared by the jihadist threat. In the country,…

President Alpha Condé called on the Guineans for reconciliation and dialogue after more than a year of deadly protest, during his inaugural address on Tuesday, December 15, before an audience of African heads of state for a third term qualified as "d" shameful of his main opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo Alpha Condé, 82, begins a third period that is questioned by his opponents.…

Should the city of Dakar be suppressed - administratively - as a society? The Minister of Territorial Collectives threw a stone at the dam. According to Oumar Guèye, Dakar, like four other cities in the country - Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque and Thiès "has no reason to exist". In the perspective of the next local elections, an important step before the 2024 presidential election, the issue raises, very…

Former President François Bozizé says he "accepts" the annulment of his presidential candidacy by the Constitutional Court and calls on the leaders of the opposition coalition, COD 2020, of which he is the current president, to unite around a single candidacy to defeat outgoing President Faustin-Archange Touadera. François Bozizé assures him in a press release released on Tuesday, December 15: he "unreservedly follows the ruling of the Constitutional Court", which annulled his candidacy in the forthcoming presidential…

Is Rwanda experiencing a second wave of Covid-19? In current days, the nation has registered a peak in contamination, with a few hundred circumstances detected per day. Figures have hardly ever been reached for the reason that pandemic started in Rwanda, which has to this point been comparatively sparse. The federal government, which in current weeks has reopened sure sectors of the economic system,…

Turn in the alleged money laundering case of Access Bank. This subsidiary of a Nigerian bank is under investigation, suspected of allowing businessman Saleh Assi, as well as other personalities under US sanctions for terrorist financing, to open accounts for fictitious companies. An RFI survey had shown that millions of dollars had actually been paid in cash to at least one suspect account and withdrawn…

Alassane Ouattara's opponent in the presidential election in October last year, KKB alias Kouadio Konan Bertin, was appointed reconciliation minister on Tuesday, December 15. A ministry whose creation had been announced the day before by Alassane Ouattara during his oath for a third term as president of Côte d'Ivoire. Announced by Alassane Ouattara during his tar edOn Monday, December 14, the Ministry of National Reconciliation will have seen the light of day the next day. And it was entrusted to KKB, Kouadio Konan…

Mediation has been going on for ten days in the Niono circle, where the village of Farabougou is located, surrounded by jihadist fighters since the beginning of October. Negotiations are taking place between all actors, including jihadists. Three direct meetings with the jihadists have already been organized, in remote areas,…