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A G5 Sahel summit will take place on Friday, July 9, through video conferencing, the first since the announcement of the gradual end of Operation Barkhane. Emmanuel Macron will attend the meeting. He should take the opportunity to clarify the contours of this decoupling. The French president will attend this Elysee summit. But he will not be alone, he will have Mohamed Bazoum, the Nigerian president,…

The information was confirmed for RFI, the next G5 Sahel summit will take place on Friday, July 9 via video conference. Emmanuel Macron will attend the meeting. He will have Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum by his side, who has been invited to the Élysée Palace. The French president should use this summit to specify the future French involvement in the region, one month after the announcement of the…

France has just classified the DRC in "red" due to an "active circulation of coronavirus" as well as "the presence of a disturbing variant" in the country. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is the circulation of the Delta variant that is of particular concern to the French authorities. This decision by France imposes…

Beninese visual artist Romuald Hazoumè is exhibiting his famous masks made of plastic jars until July 11 at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. And his new installation "No Return" is the core of the exhibition "Ex Africa - African presences in art today". Interview with this self-taught Yoruba native who grew up in Porto-Novo in a Catholic family before conquering the art market with his voodoo-inspired…

To protest Colonel Assimi Goita's second coup in late May, France suspended its operations with the Malian army. Friday night, she decided to repeal the measure. Cooperation between the two armies is restarting. Bamako has been informed of this. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielThe Malian authorities say they were…

France, of which more than 5,000 troops are stationed in the Sahel, will resume joint operations with the Malian Armed Forces, having suspended bilateral cooperation following a second coup in Mali in May, announced on Friday. the Armed Forces. "After consulting the Malian Transitional Authorities and the countries of the…

On Friday, July 2, 2021, the French Minister of Defense Florence Parly confirmed Allyhmoud ag Baye's death, aka Ikarey. Two weeks ago, the RFI announced the death of this cadre of Islamic State in Greater Sahara during a joint operation between the French and Nigerian armies and the European workforce Takouba in June in the Menaka region. Five other jihadists were neutralized and two relatives of Abu…

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 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.…

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…