Africa

There is jubilation in Kenya's Shona community when nearly 2,000 of the former stateless members receive ID cards and citizenship, which will change their lives. In addition, more than 354 million people with hepatitis live around the world, leading to over one million deaths each year. On…

After Tanzania just a few days ago, it is Burundi's turn to turn 180 ° compared to the vaccine against Covid-19. The Committee to Combat the Proliferation of Covid-19 announced yesterday, Wednesday, that it had accepted an offer from the World Bank to supply these vaccines, the Minister of Public Health and Vice-Chair of this…

The Tunisian presidency fired the head of the national television channel on Wednesday after two guests were briefly banned from entering their studios to take part in a program. The dismissal of Wataniya's CEO comes…

The reunion between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara was cordial to say the least this Tuesday 27 July evening in Abidjan. Politically, the only concrete demand was from Laurent Gbagbo, who expected to release prisoners who were considered "political" by the opposition. An embrace for the photographers, a few steps hand in…

As fighting continues between government forces and Tigrayan rebels, it is a new concern for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed: a new front was opened last weekend between Afars and Issas. It is a strategic and controversial sector between the Afar and Somali regions. Somali authorities accuse Afar militia members of committing a massacre in a city and reviving an already protracted conflict between these two neighboring peoples in the northeast. The battlefield is a long corridor that crosses the Afar region from south to…

Talks between the African Union, the United Nations or the European Union have not changed. Former Malian President Bah N'Daw and his last prime minister, Moctar Ouane, are under house arrest in Bamako. They are no longer free from their movements since Colonel Assimi Goïta, who is currently leading the transition, fired them on May 24, 2021. The lawyer they hired two weeks ago complained that they…

An embrace for the photographers, a few steps hand in hand and a press conference with all the smiles: the reunion between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, more than ten years after their last meeting and the crisis after the election that bloodied the Ivory Coast was mild to say the least. The two men took up the challenge of symbolism. .

This Wednesday, July 28, 2021, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal of Teodorin Obiang. The son of the president of Equatorial Guinea challenged his conviction in France for embezzling public funds in his country. His defense considered that French justice did not need to try crimes committed abroad, but the Court of Cassation therefore decided otherwise. The Supreme French Court considered that the judges' decisions were indeed in accordance with the law. French justice could therefore rule over these embezzlements…

Belgium is taking a major step forward in returning items looted during colonial times. The authorities have just presented a new legal framework. The Belgians no longer want items that have been forcibly acquired, resulting in the return of thousands of works by the Democratic Republic of Congo. From our correspondent in…

That's all! "The long-awaited meeting with the Ivorians has just taken place," he tells usInfodrome. "After ten years of enmity a historic meeting "," Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo go hand in hand at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan ", we read on the website. And we also see, because the pictures of the two men are obviously everywhere."A fantastic moment" for L'Intelligent d'Abidjan. "Ouattara and Gbagbo are all…