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How did the Marshal of Chad die? According to the army, Idriss Déby died with his arms in his hand as he tried to fire up the frontline rebels for change and conformity in Chad. A hypothesis confirmed by our colleagues from Jeune Afrique. But the versions of the exact circumstances differ. More than 24 hours after the…

The International Monetary Fund forecasts 3.4% of total sub-Saharan Africa growth in 2021 after a year 2020, marked by an unsurpassed recession of more than a quarter of a century of 1.9%. The IMF calls for increased efforts to enable Africa to vaccinate its population. Vaccines are one of the prerequisites for a return to…

The Central African Republic is on the verge of the date of the combined legislative and presidential elections. The situation is still unstable in the country. Fighting was reported on Friday, December 25, at several locations in the country, and three Burundian peacekeepers were killed. The Coalition of Armed Groups CPC seems determined to disrupt the election. Despite this uncertainty and the doubts it raises in the vote, Minusca is still firmly opposed to postponing the election. Mankeur Ndaye, number 1 on the UN…

In the DRC, the quarrel continues over the installation conditions for the rural municipality of Minembwe, the majority of whose inhabitants are Banyamulenge, Tutsicongolais. RFI met the city mayor. with our special correspondent in Minembwe, Sonia RolleyOn Monday, the minister of decentralization from the Banyamulenge…

The ECOWAS delegation, which met with Ivorian political actors, referred to as on the federal government and the opposition to "make a big effort" in order that the presidential election on 31 October takes place in a peaceable method. Clashes have left a number of useless in latest days. The stream stays rigid by suspending the vote. The opposition implements a method of civil disobedience. What's the logic of the 2 camps? To attempt to perceive that, our visitor this morning is Ivorian political analyst Sylvain…

Five days after the release of Soumaïla Cissé, Sophie Pétronin and two Italian hostages of the Islamist and Muslim support group linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in exchange for jihadist fighters, there are still many questions surrounding this exchange. We know a little more every day about released jihadists in return for the four hostages. We now know their number. Having long cautiously claimed that there were several dozen, we now know with certainty that they were more than 200. Two hundred and six is…

Let's go to the submission of candidacies for the presidential election on November 22nd. The declared candidates have until 2 October to present themselves to the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) with their case file. However, some candidates face conditions for running that they consider "discriminatory". It is the school and university board adviser Issa Sawadogo, independent graduate, who was received first with her case file. An incomplete file because it was unable to collect either the sum of…