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Ancien enfant soldat et commandant de la rébellion de l’Armée de résistance du Seigneur (LRA), Dominic Ongwen a été condamné jeudi à 25 ans de prison pour crimes de guerre et crimes contre l’humanité par la Cour pénale internationale. Selon l’ONU, la LRA a massacré plus de 100 000 personnes et enlevé …

The International Criminal Court sentenced a Ugandan former child soldier who turned into a brutal rebel commander to 25 years’ imprisonment Thursday, with judges saying that his own abduction as a schoolboy and history as a child soldier prevented him being sentenced to life.

At the current vaccination rate in Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, it would take nearly ten years to inoculate the entire adult population against Covid-19. The slow rollout has been blamed by some health experts at least in part on high levels of vaccine hesitancy, a situation encountered across the continent.

Ace Magashule est devenu cette semaine le premier haut responsable du Congrès national africain, au pouvoir en Afrique du Sud, à être mis à l’écart dans le sillage de la nouvelle politique anticorruption du parti. Un succès pour le président Cyril Ramaphosa, qui jouait gros sur ce dossier, au sein …

Up to 30 students kidnapped by gunmen from their college two months ago in northwest Nigeria have been freed, local state official Samuel Aruwan said in a statement on Wednesday.

In tonight’s edition: Kidnappers release 29 students who were being held captive in northwestern Nigeria for several weeks. South Africa’s ruling ANC party suspends its secretary general after he was charged with embezzling funds while heading the country’s Free State province. And a French journalist who disappeared in Northern Mali …

Près de deux mois après leur enlèvement dans une université du nord-ouest du Nigeria, 29 étudiants ont été libérées, ont annoncé, mercredi, les autorités locales. 

Ce 5 mai, la France commémore le bicentenaire de la mort de Napoléon Bonaparte. Faut-il ou pas le commémorer? Beaucoup lui reprochent le rétablissement de l’esclavage en 1802 dans les colonies françaises. « Napoléon Bonaparte est une part de nous » estime le président Emmanuel Macron, qui a dressé mercredi un portrait « en …

In Tunisia, containers full of Italian household waste have been languishing for months and local NGOs are pushing for authorities to send the waste back to Italy. In May and June 2020, an Italian company brought the rubbish to Tunisia from southern Italy. It was declared to customs as plastic trash which …

A French journalist kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda linked group brings to six the number of Western hostages known to be held in the troubled Sahel region on the southern fringes of the Sahara.