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In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche (JDD), published this weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke about the anti-French sentiment in the Central African Republic, which he said was being exploited by a private military group linked to Russia. A reference to the private military company Wagner, a group that has no legal existence but has close ties to the Kremlin, say observers and whose…

Emmanuel Macron threatens to withdraw the French military if Mali moves in the direction of radical Islamism. In an interview with JDD, the French head of state also confirms his connection to the transition process after what he has already described as an "unacceptable coup". These remarks come when West African leaders meet to decide the thorny issue of their response to the second coup by the Malian…

The day after the statement from the Constitutional Court in Mali, according to which Colonel Assimi Goïta is now taking up the post of president of the transition, the latter left Bamako on Saturday to Accra in Ghana. He is taking part in the extraordinary summit of heads of state of the sub-regional institution. as reported…

The Transitional National Council, the Provisional Parliament, which will be responsible for monitoring the Government's actions pending the next elections, was set up on the agenda. The President of the Transition, who has the power to appoint Members of the future Parliament, has chosen to delegate. as reported from Ndjamena,…

This is a historic trip for Emmanuel Macron, who will travel to Kigali on Thursday 27 May. He is only the second French president to travel to Rwanda since the Tutsi genocide in 1994. After a long stormy relationship, the two countries have moved closer in the past three years. The head of state's program promises to be busy in the capital. Many Rwandans are hoping for an apology from France after the…

President Bah Ndaw and Malia's Prime Minister have resigned. The Trojan delegation, made up of representatives of ECOWAS, the African Union and the United Nations, was in Kati, where they had been since they were arrested on Monday 24 May to meet them. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielPresident Bah Ndaw and Malia's Prime…

In Mali, shortly after the announcement of the change of government on Monday, May 24, the situation in Bamako became tense. Armed men went to the official home of Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. In the evening, a relative of the Prime Minister confirmed that the President and the Prime Minister were taken to Kati, the fortress of the ex-junta.…

Former President: It is now or never, please save Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says the ongoing negotiations in Mogadishu could save Somalia from sinking if only participants set the country's future instead of pursuing short-term political goals and expediency. Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, five federal leaders including Said Abdullahi Deni, Ahmed…

Three days before May 26, the new head of state's traditional investment day, political tensions are mounting as a new president should have taken office. However, Head of State Azali Assoumani, who has been in office since 2016, was able to fight for his own legacy and was re-elected in 2019, following a constitutional amendment in 2018.…

The plain scarcity of antiquated vaccines in Africa, the CFA franc dispute, the terrorist risk in Ghana, the navy transition in Chad. On these present matters, the top of state in Ghana provides an unique interview to RFI and France. Nana Akufo-Addo urges Africans to wake as much as Covid-19. If there's a "vaccine apartheid",…