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The trial of the bombing of the French military camp Bouaké in Côte d'Ivoire in 2004, which left ten dead (nine French soldiers and one American civilian), enters its third and final week on Monday before the Assize Court in Paris. The French politicians of the time will be heard as witnesses: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and three ministers.…

Francophonie is orphaned, with the poet Edouard Maunick missing. The Mauritian bard leaves behind an enormous poetic work, imbued with nostalgia for its native island and lively with militant humanism. His poetry is also rich in lexical inventions and baroque inspiration. "... the sea can not dieno totem is ashILE got usto experience other lonelinessthan those…

The 37th "Vues d'Afrique" International Film Festival opened on Friday 9 April with an online ceremony, live from Montreal, Quebec, but also from the Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal, for "An audience around the world" . This second digital edition offers until April 18 one hundred films from more than 30 countries in Africa and the Caribbean.…

"Manga 2", whose real name is Hyacinthe Ndiaye, is a figure in Senegalese wrestling. A former champion, he received the prestigious title "King of the Arena" in 1984. He is now vice chairman of CNG, the national wrestling committee, with responsibility for traditional wrestling without a strike. In Senegal, stood a battle…

The Court of Appeal of the International Criminal Court upheld the acquittals in favor of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé in January 2019. The two men are now free. But the case will have shed a strong light on the prosecution's deep malfunction and weakened prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's already fragile record. His successor, Karim Khan, is expected to reform in June.…

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…

On Wednesday, March 31, the head of the Congolese mining company Gécamines launched a new subsidiary called the General Company of Cobalt. ECG aims to establish the state monopoly on the purchase, processing, conversion, sale and export of artisanal cobalt, which corresponds to 20% of the total cobalt mined in the country. Democratic Republic of Congo is the leader in the sector with 67% of world…

We know of 23 of the 24 teams that will play the next African Cup of Nations football (CAN 2021) in January / February 2022 in Cameroon. However, there is still a place that can be attributed to CAN 2021, the Sierra Leone-Benin meeting in Group L in the qualifiers has been postponed until June 2021 after a controversy over positive Covid tests. The Africa Cup of Nations is almost full. Twenty-three of the twenty-four teams that will play in the final in January / February 2022 are now known. Before the last two days…

One of the largest underground uranium mines in the world is closing its doors. Akouta Mining Company (Cominak), a subsidiary of Orano Cycle (French multinational, formerly Areva), which has been using uranium deposits in the province of Agadez in northern Niger since 1978, will stop production on Wednesday 31 March. A closure carried out under unsatisfactory conditions for non-governmental organizations which, in addition to the social…

The Islamic State group claims responsibility for the attack on Palma, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. An attack that, according to the authorities in Maputo, would have killed dozens of people and caused the flight of thousands of refugees since Wednesday. The jihadist organization that the Mozambican Islamist group Ansar al-Sunna has joined claims that he "controls the coastal city", a few kilometers from the French Total gas mega project, a project that has been suspended again since…