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Twelve international human rights NGOs, including HRW, FIDH and even EurAc, expressed in an "open letter" published on Monday 21 June, their fears of seeing the EU get ready to resume direct support to the Burundian government . The Union's ambassador to Burundi announced on Monday 21 June in Bujumbura that this had just been recorded on the expert groups in the European organization.…

The Ivorian Prime Minister Patrick Achi and Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, today inaugurated the International Academy for the Fight against Terrorism AILCT in Jacqueville, about 60 kilometers from Abidjan. The first part of the project has been delivered, but the website is up and running and can be run at full speed. We will do training, strategy and practice…

Oumar Sylla is today a bit of the main character, who reminds of the oppression that is taking place today in Guinea, against opponents and critical voices in power. And so he has been in arbitrary detention for more than seven months, since he was arrested in September 2020 in Conakry, while preparing to take part in a banned demonstration. This led to him being sentenced in January 2021 to eleven months in prison. It should also be remembered that he had to wait four months to be tried. He even…

The mechanism for international criminal justice in The Hague on Tuesday, June 1, refused to declare Félicien Kabuga "unfit to stand trial". On May 6, the defense of the alleged genocide requested that the proceedings against his client be suspended, or failure to release him during trial, for "humanitarian" reasons, given his age and state of health. For the prosecutor, it would have been "too early" to declare Félicien Kabuga unsuitable to try at this stage. And it is obviously this argument that won. On April 15, the…

Fatou Bensouda met with authorities and representatives of communities that are victims of the genocide. The Gambian lawyer is close to ending her term, but she continues to urge the transitional government to hand over to her suspects accused by the ICC of crimes committed in Darfur. With our regional correspondent in Nairobi,…

Throughout a visit to Rome on Wednesday, Might 12, the German Overseas Minister introduced {that a} second Berlin convention on Libya was being ready. It would happen after mid-June. In January 2020, officers from 12 nations, together with the US and Russia, met in Berlin to collectively develop a roadmap to emerge from the…

Condemned by French justice in September in a major case of corruption against the background of doping by Russian athletes, he arrived in Dakar last Monday night, May 10. He was held in France due to a prosecution in a second case, suspected of having bought votes in the allocation of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.…

The political situation is still blocked, a month after President Farmajo's term officially ended on February 8. Following the postponement of the presidential election, the opposition no longer recognizes its legitimacy, but no solution has been found despite several talks. Now the international community is worried and demanding results.…

The large-scale fire broke out this Easter Sunday in the early afternoon and was brought under control after 6 hours of intervention by Cotonou firefighters and around. 12,000 m² of the 180,000 area of ​​the market was affected by the flames. as reported from Cotonou, Jean-Luc AploganWhen you arrive at the scene of the…

A fairly large number of political opponents, but also of what can be called critical voices of power, who have been arrested or arrested, some for criminal organizations, others for financing terrorism, as is the case with Reckya Madougou, and others also in the name of a digital law passed in 2018. We can legitimately wonder about the underlying motives for these accusations ahead of a presidential election taking place in a particular climate, as you know, most opponents could not present…