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Was former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi sentenced to life? It is this question that his relatives have been asking themselves since Friday, December 11, after the very attentive resignation of the Comorian Minister of Justice. Accused especially of embezzlement of public funds in a case worth more than 800 million euros, the former president of the Comoros has been detained in his home turned into an…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Court of Peace announced its decision in the first instance on Thursday, December 3, regarding AFDC and Allied regrouping. The outgoing leader Patrick Djanga Kalakata gets four years in prison and Néné Nkulu's lawyers promise to appeal to defend his group. Modeste Bahati Lukuebo is recognized as the group's sole legal representative.…

The Zouglou music duo had been instantly prosecuted for contempt of courtroom, discredited the judiciary and disseminated false info with racial and tribal tastes. Final Sunday, throughout a live performance within the municipality of Yopougon, the well-known Ivorian group had listed prosecutor Richard Adou and accused him of solely prosecuting opposition activists as a part of investigations into…

The French-Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte has chosen MACA, the Abidjan Jail (the biggest jail in West Africa), as the primary character in his newest characteristic movie "La Nuit des rois", which might be launched in Abidjan's theaters on December 4. Notorious criminals or sad harmless individuals, the artistically gifted prisoners carry out an expiatory dance that bears the struggling of the modern historical past of the Ivory Coast. The movie was chosen by Ivorian cultural our bodies to signify the nation on the 2021…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is organizing consultations for raped prisoners at the Kasapa Prison in Lubumbashi from 3 December. On September 25, 26 and 27, during riots in the prison, about 50 of them were raped by other prisoners. Since then, some have reportedly been released or…

About fifty women who were raped in the Kasapa prison in Lubumbashi are still waiting to be taken into custody. These women were held in this prison during the riots that shook the prison on September 25, 26 and 27. Since then, they have not seen a gynecologist or a judge. They have been abandoned to their sad fate. RFI was able to meet them on the spot.…

In Algeria, the court of appeal on Tuesday, November 3, ruled on Ali Haddad's fate, embroiled in a corruption case. The former head of Algerian bosses had already been tried in July 2020, but had appealed his conviction. A new verdict was therefore expected and turned out to be milder than at first instance. Twelve years in…

In one week since October 17, more than 2,600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and sub-Saharan Africa have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands, corresponding to the whole of 2019. The authorities seem overwhelmed. The health situation due to Covid prevents any repatriation to their countries of origin or transfer to the European continent. After sometimes a thousand kilometers and one to fifteen days of dangerous sea crossing, between 300 and 400 immigrants reach the coast of the Canary Islands every day, the island to…

Early on Tuesday morning, October 20, the prison in the town of Béni in the province of North Kivu was attacked by elements of the ADF movement, according to some authorities. Hundreds of prisoners have reportedly been released. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient LigodiIt was a carefully conducted intrusion around noon. 4…

The head of the South African bank VBS was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He is accused of plundering the economy of the poorest. It is one of the biggest corruption scandals in South Africa. On Wednesday, former CFO Philip Truter was the first to be convicted in the VBS case. VBS-mutual bank was nicknamed "the bank of the poor". Founded at the height of apartheid in 1982 in Venda, a former Bantustan far north in the country reserved by the white authorities for black communities, the bank housed the money for the most…