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As Ukraine’s counteroffensive gathers steam, peace mediators from a continent that counts on grain and fertilizer imports from Kyiv and Moscow: the presidents of South Africa, Senegal, Zambia and the Comoros leading a delegation to the Ukrainian capital before traveling on to Saint Petersburg Saturday to meet Vladimir Putin. After …
Read More »Mali calls for withdrawal of UN peacekeeping mission ‘without delay’
Mali’s foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country « without delay, » denouncing its « failure » to respond to security challenges.
Read More »African leaders in Ukraine: Poland detains S.African security plane in diplomatic spat
The South African president’s security detail was held up in Warsaw amid a feud that was nominally about weapons permits. His entourage stuck on the tarmac for 24 hours. South Africa’s been accused of supplying weapons to Russia while Poland’s one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies. FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Cape …
Read More »Le Mali réclame le retrait immédiat de la Minusma, la mission de l’ONU
La junte militaire malienne a réclamé aux Nations unies le retrait sans délai de leur mission de paix dans le pays, la Minusma, a annoncé vendredi le ministre malien des Affaires étrangères Abdoulaye Diop devant le Conseil de sécurité.
Read More »African leaders in Ukraine: Any difference, with counteroffensive underway?
An African peace delegation is in Ukraine’s capital. South African president Cyril Rhamaposa leading the mission which includes senior officials from Zambia, Senegal, Egypt, Comoros and Republic of the Congo. The group met with Ukraine’s president Vlodymir Zelensky. The African leaders will be heading to St. Petersburg tomorrow for talks …
Read More »Ce qu’il faut retenir de l’actualité africaine de la semaine du 12 juin
African leaders in Ukraine: Air raids sirens in Kyiv as representatives arrive
On the same day as a peace mission of African leaders was set to meet Ukraine’s president, air raid sirents went off in the capital Kyiv. Earlier that delegation visited Bucha, a suburb where Russian occupying forces were accused of commint war crimes, massacring hundres of civilians over a year …
Read More »Malians split ahead of referendum paving way for next year’s elections
Malians will vote on Sunday to approve or reject constitutional amendments that would reinforce presidential powers ahead of a promised transition from military rule back to democracy in the West African nation.
Read More »African leaders in Ukraine: What is this mission hope to accomplish?
A delegation of African presidents and senior officials on a peace mission in Ukraine on Friday visited Bucha, the site of an alleged massacre by Russian troops. South African « President Cyril Ramaphosa and other African Heads of State and Government participating in the African Leaders Peace Mission at the St …
Read More »Cholera in South Africa: Investigation underway to determine how more than 23 people died
Cholera has largely disappeared in most developed countries. But South Africa, one of the Africa’s top economies saw, just last month, a fatal outbreak of the disease. An investigation is underway to determine how more than 23 people died of cholera in Hammanskraal, near Pretoria, last month. FRANCE 24’s correspondents …
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