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President Kenyatta in Paris to talk about

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…

under the sand, French nuclear waste

This is one of the biggest challenges in uniting memories between France and Algeria, a substance that has long been buried in the sands of the Sahara: the pollution of southern Algeria by French nuclear tests. More than fifty years after the last test in 1966, Algiers has just created an agency to rehabilitate the sites of the old nuclear tests.…

Cameroonian Jean-David Nkot exhibits his art

In his latest exhibition in Paris, "Human @ condition", Jean-David Nkot delivers a committed reflection on portraits of diggers to inform the public and, above all, to condemn the dramatic consequences of the mismanagement of African mines. Some look at us, determined. Others smile or are represented laughing, arm in arm, as if…

The United States is sending a statement of support

The US Secretary of State met with his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in Paris. The issue of the fight against terrorism in the Sahela was raised in particular, while President Emmanuel Macron announced the in-depth transformation of Operation Barkhane in Mali. A change that should not call into question US support for the region.…

Tour de France: with Nicholas Dlamini, historical past

Nicholas Dlaminis turns into the primary black South African to participate within the Tour de France. Since 2015, Massive Loop has welcomed a number of runners from the African continent with roughly regularity. Two different South Africans, Louis Meintjes and StefandeBod, may even signify Africa for this 108th version. On…

The UN accuses C. African Republic, Russian ally of

The UN envoy to the Central African Republic on Wednesday accused the country's security forces and their Russian allies of several human rights violations. The Central African Republic's closer relationship with Moscow dates back to 2018, when Russia sent "instructors" to help train its besieged armed forces and supplied small arms and were relieved of the UN arms embargo. One of the world's poorest countries, the Central African Republic, has been chronically unstable since gaining independence from France in 1960.…

leader of French companies

French leaders of Amesys and Nexa Technologies are accused of participating in an act of torture for the sale of surveillance equipment to Egypt and Libya. This follows a complaint from the International Federation for Human Rights and The League of Human Rights. To date, four men, former directors or still in office, have been…

still no new government without

In the Central African Republic, six months after the presidential election, one month after the end of the legislative election and almost two weeks after the appointment of the Prime Minister, the country still does not know the composition of its new government. Central Africans are impatient, but the new tenant of Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra takes his time, time to receive the audience a large…

A dozen Russian “tourists” were arrested in

A dozen tourists, Russians and a Lithuanian, were arrested just over a week ago in the Chadian Sahara, near Faya-Largeau, in the north of the country. They were returned to the capital Ndjamena manu militari, and were admitted to an exclusive hotel pending the completion of the ongoing investigation to determine the reasons for their presence in an area considered "red".…

A senior official in the Islamic State in Greater Sahara

According to our information, Almahmoud ag Baye, alias Ikarey, was neutralized on Tuesday, June 15, in a town southwest of Ménaka, in northeastern Mali. The French and Nigerian armies carried out several counter-terrorism operations last week in this Malian region bordering Niger. An offensive that also resulted in the arrest of four other EIGS executives.…

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