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Kenya mourns military chief's death, launches probe into helicopter crash that claimed lives of senior officers. UN warns drug trafficking poses security and development threats in Sahel region, from cocaine seizures in 2020 to over a ton seized. Ahead of South African elections, political satire flourishes with renowned cartoonists like Nathi Ngubane and Zapiro.

Gabriel Kyungu Wa Kumwanza, co-founder of the UDPS with Étienne Tshisekediau in the early 1980s and supported by Félix Tshisekedi, the current resident of the Republic, died on Saturday, August 21 in Luanda, Angola. Gabriel Kyungu was an atypical character who could pass the test of time by changing political camps if necessary.…

Demonstrations by students who demanded their unpaid scholarships for nine months have degenerated in the southern part of the country, leaving one student dead and another seriously injured, according to the report from the gendarmerie on the spot. The arrears were paid out yesterday Monday after almost two weeks of demonstrations.…

It had already been announced by the group Islamic State in West Africa on Sunday, June 6, but Boko Haram confirmed it in a video. The jihadist leader took his own life almost a month ago to escape his rivals from Iswap, who besieged him in his stronghold in Sambisa. From our correspondent in Lagos,Liza FabbianIt is truly "like…

In Ceuta, three people have died since the migration crisis started a week ago. A young man, who drowned on Monday 17 May while trying to swim to the Spanish enclave, was buried on Saturday 22 May. The other two were buried on Sunday, May 23. With our special correspondent in Ceuta, Magali LagrangeThe Muslim cemetery, near the…

The dean of Malian veterans and formally 100-year-old, Corporal Kaba Doumbia died on Monday 26 April. Recipient of the silver medal from the French Memorial 2020, he was a knight of the Legion of Honor since 2014 and the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the touchdown of Provence. His funeral will happen on Wednesday, April 28 in Bamako.…

LONDON - Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died at the age of 99, Buckingham Palace has announced. Buckingham Palace said: “It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty the Queen has announced that her beloved husband, His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has died. "His Royal Highness died peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle." Boris Johnson said he "inspired the lives of countless young people". In a speech on Downing Street, the Prime Minister added: "He helped govern the royal…

According to security sources, several groups of gunmen attacked three villages in the Tahoua region. The results are still preliminary. With our Special Correspondent in Niamey, Gaelle Laleix Information seeps in because the Tillia region, located near the Malian border, is a desert area, very isolated. The telecommunications networks that are more than fragmentary. Nevertheless, several sources at the scene explained that the attack took place in the afternoon. Several dozen men arrived on motorcycles. They…

In Mali, the press mourns the night of journalist Adam Thiam that night. Collaborating with several media outlets, he had recently taken up the post of Director of Communications for the Presidency of the Republic. as reported from Bamako, Serge Daniel"Sad news", "One of the most beautiful feathers in Mali" ... There are many…

Officially, Tanzania's President John Maguful has died of heart problems. This was announced by the Vice President on television on Wednesday, March 17, after more than two weeks of unresolved absence from the head of state."Easily re-elected in October last year for another term with 84% of the vote, John Magufuli, 61, appeared for the last time in public on February 27 and points to World Africa, there were persistent…