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Nigerian opponent Hama Amadou is in France for a few days. Imprisoned since the announcement of the results of the first round of presidential elections in February last year, he received permission from the Nigerian judiciary to get out of prison to take the plane to Paris. Hama Amadou arrived in France on Wednesday morning, his entourage confirmed to us on Friday, April 9, to undergo a series of…

Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo since 2005, was received this Friday, April 9, at the Elysee Palace for a working lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron. A reception criticized by the civil society movement, Togo Standing, while Amnesty International condemned in December last year a "growing repression of opponents" in the country.…

The Duclert Commission's report was officially handed over to President Paul Kagame on Friday, April 9 by Vincent Duclert himself. The text concludes that France has a heavy and overwhelming responsibility in the genocide of Tutsi, but excludes the idea of ​​complicity in the genocide. The French historian assured that he came as an independent researcher with no official assignment other than to…

On the eighth day of the Bouaké bombing, the court on Thursday examined the identification and statements of the three accused, Belarusian Yury Sushkin and Ivorians Patrice Ouei and Ange Gnanduillet Attualy, suspected of having pilot and co-pilot Sukhois during the attack. . In the absence of defendants in the box, the President read the statements of the Ivorian officers heard in November 2005 by an…

Jean Castex will not be in Algiers on Sunday, April 11, as planned. The French Prime Minister was to travel to the Algerian capital of the Franco-Algerian Intergovernmental Committee. The fight against terrorism, trade and research agreements, Sunday's program was busy, but Covid-19 disrupted the meeting. The Algerian authorities have decided to postpone this visit.…

A little over a year after the re-election for the fourth term, Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé has been in France since Wednesday for a working visit. The highlight will be a tête-à-tête at noon this Friday, April 9 at the Elysee Palace with its counterpart Emmanuel Macron. This visit is the first by the Togolese head of…

A long-awaited testimony this Thursday, April 8, in the Bouaké bombing, in which nine French soldiers were killed on November 6, 2004. The Togolese Minister of the Interior at the time, François Boko, heard by video conference, explained how, while making the alleged perpetrators of raids available for the French authorities on 16 November, they refused to take it up. A very detrimental passivity for the…

This Wednesday, Rwanda marked the 27th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide on April 7, 1994. On Thursday, France will open its archives. The documents will be made available to the public from Thursday 8 April by the National Archives. They provide a better understanding of the position of the French authorities at the time, which until a few days ago was an explosive subject between Paris and Kigali.…

During the bombing of Bouaké, the Assize court in Paris continued to investigate one of the gray areas. On November 16, 2004, ten days after the attack, Togo warned: 8 Belarusian citizens and 2 Ivorians were arrested on the border with Ghana off the Ivory Coast. Among this group apparently consists of mercenaries, the pilots of the rescuers, he suspects. But these men will finally be released, because…

27 years after the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, Alain Juppé acknowledges France's misjudgment, though he's happy that Paris has been exempted from genocide, by means of the Duclert report. In a column awarded to LeMonde, the previous International Minister emphasised that the French authorities, specifically, lacked the understanding that may have enabled them to behave directly in opposition to…