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The 83 countries and member organizations of the international coalition against the organization Islamic State warned on Monday 28 June against the emergence of this organization in Africa. For the first time since 2019, the coalition was held face to face in Rome at ministerial level. Several African countries attended this…

Whereas the outcomes are anticipated subsequent week, the Ethiopian legislative election is already being mentioned on Monday. Irregularities had been noticed by numerous actors on election day. as reported from Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-BodinAre the irregularities noticed throughout the vote ample to name into query the…

Germany is hosting a new international conference on Libya on Wednesday 23 June. The presence of many countries and actors on the ground should make it possible to consolidate the progress made in recent months, in particular as regards the conduct of elections. The withdrawal of foreign forces planned by the first conference in Berlin 18 months ago has not been followed.…

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.…