Africa

John Magufuli has not appeared in public since February 27, a rare event for the one usually seen every Sunday at Mass. So since the beginning of the week, speculations about his state of health have been widespread. as reported from Nairobi, Albane ThirouardIt all started with a Kenyan diary referring to hospitalization in…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday, March 10, condemned "ethnic cleansing" in western Tigray, citing the presence of Eritrean forces and the nearby Amhara region. Charges strongly rejected by Addis Ababa. "These are completely unfounded and false accusations, and nothing can be defined as targeted ethnic…

Continuation of our series of reports in northern Mali. Near the city of Tessalit, gold panning sites were stormed outside the Malian state rules, so the jihadists imposed their legislators on yellow metal operators, sellers and buyers. With our special correspondent in Tessalit, Serge DanielAmong the operators there are…

In Tunisia, 30,000 doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V were received on Tuesday, March 9, to enable 15,000 people to be vaccinated. Vaccination centers have been opened in all 24 regions of the country. as reported from Tunis Michel PicardIt was during the dome of the sports palace El-Menzah in Tunis that the first doses…

More than 250,000 people received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Rwanda in one week. The country launched a vaccination campaign on Friday, March 5, after receiving about 340,000 doses as part of the Covax initiative, mainly from the Astra-Zeneca laboratory, but also from the Pfizer laboratory. For a week, photos of injections have followed each other in the media. There were first the nursing staff and the elderly, then prisoners, refugees, some motorcycle taxis, but also the staff of the national airline,…

Pr. On 31 January 2021, Burkina Faso will host 19,823 Malian refugees. Following the terrorist attacks and the insecurity that began to settle around and in the Mentao refugee camps, in Soum and Goudebo provinces, in Seno, the government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have decided to make the camps safer. With our…

In the Central African Republic, 118 constituencies are called to vote in the legislative elections on Sunday 14 March. This is the second round for 49 constituencies. The 69 other constituencies will vote again because they were prevented or the vote was canceled during the first round on 27 December. It is therefore the last straight line before this important election. The observers of the…

In Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina has announced that he will no longer appear before the judges. At the sixth hearing of his trial, on Friday 12 March, the opponent considered that he did not benefit from a fair trial and therefore refused to continue to participate. Once again, the Court rejected the objections raised by Paul Rusesabagina's lawyers. They had requested another six months to prepare his defense and investigate this file, according to them, particularly complicated, given that the opponent appears along with…

That was four years ago; on March 12, 2017, in the Democratic Republic of the Conto (DRC) Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, two UN experts investigating the violence in Kasai-Central, were assassinated. A few months later, a lawsuit was opened to determine the causes and those responsible for these killings, but since then the procedure has progressed in slow motion and is spiced with irregularities,…

The fight against terrorism in northern Mali, where information exchange and joint patrols are carried out. Allied forces on the ground are increasingly concentrating their efforts on fighting terrorism. This is the case in Tessalit, where French Barkhane forces, the UN peacekeeping forces and the Malian armed forces coexist.…