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In its press launch on Wednesday, April 7, the French Ministry of International Affairs has simply confirmed {that a} letter had really been despatched by the French Presidency to Faure Gnassingbé after his re-election in February 2020. This data ought to put an finish to a months-long controversy by some Togolese politicians actors. This affirmation comes after these in Germany and the European Union.…

"A vital step and a sign for change": that is the primary response of the Rwandan President to the publication of the Duclert report on France's function within the Tutsi genocide. Paul Kagame spoke on Wednesday, April 7, on the event of the start of the twenty seventh anniversary of the Kigali genocide. Anniversary that takes place like final 12 months in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. In Kigali, subsequently, the ceremonies are held in small teams and broadcast on tv. President Paul Kagame spoke first in…

It is that this Wednesday, April 7, that memorials to the 1994 genocide start in Rwanda. Occasions that may final for 3 months and that happen a number of days after the publication of the Duclert report, in France, based on which Paris has "heavy obligations" and "overwhelming" on this tragedy, with out acknowledging any involvement with the genocides.Just lately Rwandan day by day The New Occasionswelcomed the publication…

April 7 marks the start of the celebration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. This 12 months is the twenty seventh anniversary of the massacres. Particular anniversary in France: Twelve days in the past, the Ducler Fee issued Emmanuel Macron its report on the function of France throughout and earlier than the genocide. If the Fee excludes complicity in genocide, it considers France to bear "heavy and overwhelming accountability" on this tragedy. This report marks a very important step within the normalization of…

Resumption today of the trial of the bombing of Bouaké. On November 6, 2004, 10 people were killed in the attack on the French military camp in the Licorne force by two Soukhoï planes piloted by Russian mercenaries and their Ivorian co-pilots. The court began investigating one of the gray areas of this act: the arrest of suspects in Togo, which will finally be released because France, warned, is not…

We can only hope that this will shake things up a bit. We are not completely naive and we know that defense secrets exist in practically all countries, in all democracies, but more or less in a virulent way. What we can hope for is that at least it can lead to thinking a little more about the lock. There were attempts ... There is the impression that the President of the Republic - whether in the Maurice Audin affair or for Rwanda - would like us to have easier access to documents, to archives classified as a defense…

I will not give up the issue of national memory, but I will never make this memory a business. It is a memory between two peoples and two countries. We are moving forward step by step. But I understand what the French President said. He said that what happened in Algeria (at the time of colonization) goes beyond the Holocaust. He said it. He said it was a crime against humanity. He said it. I do not doubt his sincerity. Abdelmadjid Tebboune,…

In a letter to the French authorities, a copy of which Mediapart and the Guardian had, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions accuses the French army of obstructing the UN investigation into the murders of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Mali. And condemns "troubled gray areas". In his letter of 30 pages…

Where will the flagship meetings of African cultures take place in digital form or face to face in March? Here are eleven suggestions. Do not hesitate to send us your "essentials" to fipageculture@yahoo.fr. The New African Film Festival of Washington DC celebrates its 17th online edition, expanded to audiences across the…

At the trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké, which left ten dead on November 6, 2004, the court heard this Friday from General Destremau, former commander of the joint battle group Bouaké, and Captain Bellamy, division chief. based in Yamoussoukro. When asked why the Sukhoi pilots were not arrested when they…