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The National Assembly's Defense Commission released its information report on Operation Barkhane on Wednesday. This is the first report to be tabled since the start of military operations in the area in 2013. Deputies are advocating a reorientation of Barkhane in the coming months by relying more on partner armies in the Sahel. A new doctrine which, according to the deputies, should no longer completely…

The Minister for Foreign Trade and Attractiveness of France, Franck Riester, traveled to Nigeria from Monday 12 April to Wednesday 14 April, in particular to prepare for the May 18 Summit on Financing the African Economy and the Africa Summit - France from Montpellier, scheduled for July. After an exchange in Abuja with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Nigerian Governors' Forum, he went to Lagos on…

RFI exclusivity - France 24. Despite the Duclert report on France's responsibility for the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur does not want France to apologize. In an exclusive interview with RFI and France 24, former French Prime Minister Édouard Balladur confirms that he "does not agree at…

After the then Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and the Minister of the Interior Dominique de Villepin, Michèle Alliot-Marie was at the helm on Tuesday afternoon, April 13. With always the same question at the heart of the hearings: why did France release the alleged pilots made available by Togo, who, however, had warned through the channels of three ministries? The testimony of the former Minister…

At the trial of the bombing of the French camp Bouaké, the interrogation of witnesses will end on Tuesday, April 13. After former Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, it was former Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin's turn to testify. He says he is no longer a lawyer. Quoted as a witness at the trial of the attack on the…

Koffi Olomide's appeal procedure has been postponed again for six months in France. The King of Congolese Rumba was to be tried again on appeal on Monday, March 12, for sexually abusing four of his former dancers. In October last year, the trial against Koffi Olomide was postponed for six months due to his lawyer having another…

The trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, which left ten dead (nine French soldiers and one American civilian), enters its third and final week on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris. The French politicians of the time will be heard as witnesses: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and three ministers.…

Francophonie is orphaned, with the poet Edouard Maunick missing. The Mauritian bard leaves behind an enormous poetic work, imbued with nostalgia for its native island and lively with militant humanism. His poetry is also rich in lexical inventions and baroque inspiration. "... the sea can not dieno totem is ashILE got usto experience other lonelinessthan those…

Algeria has requested help from France to rehabilitate the sites of French nuclear tests that took place in Algeria 60 years ago. It was during an unannounced meeting that took place on Thursday in Algiers between the head of the Algerian army, Saïd Chanegriha, and his French counterpart, General François Lecointre. The nuclear…

During the bombing of Bouaké on Friday, April 9, the Paris Assize Court began hearing General Henri Poncet, commander of the Licorne force. With our special correspondent at the courthouse in Paris, Laura MartelHis first words are to the victims: "I hope I was able to give the answers they have been waiting for for 17 years,"…