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The Chief of Staff of the Ivorian army was reassuring about the fate of the 49 soldiers of his country detained since July 10 in Mali, which accuses them of being “mercenaries”, saying that “negotiations are continuing” for their release. “There is no alert, no bad news about their health and their conditions of detention,” said General Lassina Doumbia, quoted… Read More

The two Frenchmen were convicted of trying to assassinate Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina: their request to have their sentences of 10 and 20 years of hard labour overturned on Friday by Madagascar’s Court of Cassation. The court “rejects the appeals,” the president said laconically during an expedited hearing. Paul Rafanoharana, a Franco-Malagasy former adviser to the head of state, and… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago Thousands of flood-affected people are living in makeshift houses and tents. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared a state of emergency. In a statement issued on Thursday, the United Nations said it had allocated $3 million to humanitarian agencies and partners in Pakistan to deal with the floods. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron paid his respects at a European cemetery in Algeria on Friday, the second day of a visit aimed at turning a “new page” in often difficult ties. The three-day trip comes after months of tensions between France and its former North African colony, which earlier this year marked 60 years of independence following 132 years of… Read More

Healing the wounds of the past is one of the objectives of the French President’s three-day visit to Algeria. On the first day, Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the monument to the martyrs of Independence. It has been 60 years since Algeria gained independence from France and the last few months have been marked by tension between the two… Read More

The MPLA remains in power in Angola. According to provisional figures announced by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), when 97 percent of the votes had been counted, the party that has ruled Angola since independence won the general elections with 51.7 percent and 124 seats. While UNITA won with 44.5 percent and 90 seats in a 230-seat parliament. Lourenço is… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago In front of the patron saint of Alsace, a banner displays the names and faces of the “Malgré-nous”, the young Alsatians and Mosellans drafted into the German armies during the Second World War 80 years ago. “These banners have the power to show that these guys were young,” says the president of the Orphans of… Read More

There is a small story in the great history of the Algerian war that is not often spoken about, because it concerns the harkis, and the unease still surrounds their fate, but also because it is about newborns, who died in anonymity. This is the tragedy of the Rivesaltes camp. Hacène Arfi, is a son of one of the Harkis… Read More

The Covid pandemic has killed one million people worldwide since January, the WHO said Thursday, calling on governments to speed up vaccination as one-third of the world’s population remains unvaccinated. “We have passed the tragic milestone of one million deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning of the year,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news… Read More

Algeria has welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron for an official visit of three days. The French president was received Thursday afternoon on the tarmac of the airport by his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Téboune, to the sound of the anthems of both countries played by a military band. No less than 90 people accompanied the French president. Among them: seven ministers,… Read More