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Le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU a apporté vendredi son soutien au plan marocain d’autonomie du Sahara occidental. Malgré l’opposition de l’Algérie – qui a refusé de participer au vote –, ce plan a été estimé comme la solution « la plus réalisable » pour le territoire disputé.

Le corps d’un mercenaire français combattant avec les jihadistes a-t-il été retrouvé au Mali ? Depuis lundi circule un montage de deux photos prétendant montrer un Français tué par les forces maliennes et sa moto. Mais ces clichés n’ont pas été pris au Mali. Retour sur une intox poussée notamment par …

As concerns over a humanitarian crisis in Darfur are growing, the RSF paramilitary announced it had arrested fighters accused of abuses in El-Fasher. ‘We need UN presence on ground to monitor these violations and the need to ensure protection of civilians’ Kashif Shafique, Country director at Relief International Sudan, tells …

As post-election violence grips Tanzania, the United Nations is urging the government to refrain from using disproportionate force against protestors. This follows remarks made by Tanzania’s army chief – labelling the protestors ‘criminals’. According to the opposition, around 700 have been killed in the clashes. Internet access has been disrupted …

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they had arrested several of their fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the city of El-Fasher. Although the goal is to show that the RSF follows the rules of war, it’s probable those arrests « are not significant at all » FRANCE 24’s …

According to the UN, hundreds have been killed in a Darfur hospital by the RSF paramilitary. As thousands of others are fleeing, concerns of a humanitarian crisis in the region are growing. El-Fasher is experiencing « a collapse of the whole healthcare system », Dr. Sayed Mohamed Abdalla, Spokesperson for the Sudan …

Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed in Tanzania after taking to the streets to protest this week’s presidential election, which saw the increasingly authoritarian incumbent, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, run unopposed for another term after her main challengers were jailed or barred from standing.

Washington et Londres ont appelé, jeudi, leurs employés « non-essentiels » à quitter le territoire malien « en raison des risques sécuritaires » qui pèsent sur le Mali depuis la mise en place du blocus jihadiste qui empêche les livraisons de carburant dans Bamako.

Fears that the Sudan region of Darfur is plunging into genocidal violence are reviving. U.N officials have warned of a rampage after the RSF took hold of the city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexual …