Africa

More than 700 civilians died from 5 to 10 June 2000 in Kisangani after heavy arms conflicts between the Rwandan and Ugandan armies. Even today, the traces of this violence are still there and the pain is still alive. Monsignor Samuel Lotika has gray hair and well-worn glasses. The provincial president-bishop of Christ Church in Congo barely hides his teary-eyed eyes at the mention of the Six-Day War. “The first one was going to fall in the classroom where my son was studying. Many of the students were dead. It was also…

Normalization with Israel, desired by the United States before next November, the date of the presidential election, is not realized in Sudan. Neither US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Khartoum last August nor Abu Dhabi's talks with US officials last week proved fruitful. The Sudanese authorities say they are under…

In tonight's edition: Nigeria started the month celebrating six decades of self-government. We look back at the watershed moments that led up to and followed the African giant's independence from Britain. Also, Cameroon's sand divers risk their lives to plunge into the Sanago River in search of sand for the construction industry, and we visit one of Algeria's open secrets in hopes of getting away from…

In Mali, the Charter, which will organize the transition for the next 18 months, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on Thursday 1 October. The document takes into account a significant demand from ECOWAS, subject to the transitional chairman, Colonel Assimi Goïta, leader of the junta. Unlike an earlier version of the Transition Charter, the one published in the Official Journal of the European Union on Thursday does not mention that the Vice President can assume the functions of President of the…

The US Secretary of Defense continues his three-day visit to North Africa, which is also his first trip to the African continent. After Tunisia yesterday, Mark Esper made a stopover in Algiers on October 1, before heading for Morocco tomorrow. No Pentagon leader has visited Algeria since Donald Rumsfeld in 2006. The goal is to strengthen cooperation between the two countries on security issues.…

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 during an official visit to France, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta discussed the biggest challenges facing him. Asked about the fight against terrorism, the Kenyan leader denied that the US military has sought permission to carry out drone strikes inside Kenya. He stressed that if such a request was made, he would reject it. Kenyatta also addressed the Covid-19 pandemic, Kenya's economic development, as well as an attempt to dissolve parliament due to gender inequality. In an…

In Kenya, the Kemsa affair has been causing unrest for several weeks. Millions of dollars have reportedly been diverted from their purpose within the state body responsible for medical supplies. This Wednesday, new revelations before the Senate question its officials a little more. Appointed in July, the new Auditor General is already in the front line in the scandal at the moment in Kenya. According to Nancy Gathungu's report, corruption within Kemsa has swallowed more than $ 21 million intended for the fight against…

After six months of closure to limit the spread of coronavirus, South Africa is beginning to reopen its borders. A decision that only concerns international flights in relation to countries considered to be low risk. This is the first international flight to land at Johannesburg Airport in six months. This Thursday, October 1,…

The Kenyan head of state is accompanied by five of his ministers for this visit dedicated to economic cooperation. He attended the conference of the Public Investment Bank, the institution responsible for promoting French companies abroad, along with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Thursday morning. The two heads of state took the opportunity to discuss the economic opportunities that bind them, despite the global health crisis. And it was a rather determined Uhuru Kenyatta who appeared on the conference stage.…

Nigeria became independent from Britain on October 1, 1960, and today has Africa's largest economy. FRANCE 24's Nicolas Germain looks at how the newly independent state was soon entangled in a devastating civil war in the eastern Biafra region that would claim nearly two million lives. Africa's most populous nation became…