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Fréderic Bontems, special envoy for the Sahel at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stayed in Cotonou for 24 hours. This is his first assignment to Benin since taking office. With the many terrorist attacks registered in northern Benin, the country is of…

Libya's Vice President, Moussa Al-Koné Moussa, and the President of the Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Idriss Déby, met behind closed doors on Wednesday. Among the issues addressed: trade relaunch and economic programs between the two countries. But also, and perhaps above all, security issues. This is the first visit…

Emmanuel Macron paid a historic visit to Nairobi in March 2019, the first by a French president since Kenya's independence. Uhuru Kenyatta visited Paris in October last year. He is back in France this Thursday for a third bilateral meeting in three years. The opportunity to discuss the development of the Franco-Kenyan partnership that Emmanuel Macron wants to strengthen and the worrying regional…

This Tuesday, June 15, an extraordinary summit with the Foreign Ministers of the Arab League dedicated to the Great Pond of the Ethiopian Renaissance will be held in Doha, Qatar. Sudan and Egypt want to warn of the "risk" that Ethiopia's unilateral measures pose to the region, while talks have stopped. It was Sudan and Egypt…

Forward of a very turbulent finish of the yr within the Horn of Africa, the Igad Regional Authority held a unprecedented assembly on Sunday in Djibouti, within the presence of the President of the African Union Fee, to debate safety challenges to return up. Tensions had been excessive between the leaders of East Africa, particularly the Ethiopian and Sudanese leaders, whose forces had been colliding for a number of days on the border. "The Horn of Africa is in a particular state of affairs in the present day, it's…

Discussions continue to find a way out of the crisis in Libya. In the conflict between the camp in Tripoli and the east, there are three aspects: political, economic and security. At this last point, Egypt is to host a committee of five soldiers from each camp next month. To prepare for this meeting, two delegations from rival factions met on Monday in Hurghada.…