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Sept accusés ont été condamnés à la perpétuité en Tunisie pour leur rôle dans les attentats de Bardo et de Sousse, en 2015. Cinquante-deux personnes avaient trouvé la mort dans ces deux attaques.
Read More »Seven jihadists get life sentences for deadly 2015 Tunisia attacks
A Tunisian court has sentenced seven jihadists to life in prison over attacks at a museum and on a beach in 2015 that killed 60 people, many of them tourists, prosecutors said Saturday.
Read More »Guillaume Soro démissionne de la présidence de l’Assemblée nationale en Côte d’Ivoire
L’ancien chef de la rébellion ivoirienne, Guillaume Soro, a démissionné vendredi de son poste de président de l’Assemblée nationale.
Read More »Nord du Tchad : une intervention militaire française qui pose question
Sur demande d’assistance du président Idriss Déby, des avions de l’opération française Barkhane ont procédé, au début du mois de février, à des frappes controversées pour stopper une incursion au Tchad.
Read More »Leader of Ivory Coast’s parliament Soro resigns amid dispute with President Ouattara
Former Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro resigned as parliament speaker on Friday in a split with President Alassane Ouattara that could signal his intention to run for president next year.
Read More »Frappes armée française au Tchad : la colonne rebelle « complètement détruite »
Depuis dimanche, l’armée française et l’armée tchadienne mènent des frappes aériennes conjointes dans le nord-est du Tchad contre des rebelles tchadiens arrivés du sud de la Libye. Des avions de combat français ont frappé dans le nord-est du Tchad une colonne de pick-up lourdement armée venue de Libye contre laquelle …
Read More »Video: Ex-president Wade returns to Senegal before elections, calls for boycott
Senegal’s ex-leader Abdoulaye Wade returns to the country ahead of this month’s presidential elections, in which his son’s candidacy has been rejected, and which incumbent Macky Sall is expected to win.
Read More »Kenyan terror hub of Mombasa determined to change its image
The Kenyan capital of Nairobi is still coming to terms with last month’s shocking act of terrorism, a hotel attack which left 21 people dead. The investigation into that bloodshed has taken police to the city of Mombasa, where a string of arrests have been made. Mombasa has long been …
Read More »South Africa’s ANC party and its political assassination problem
South Africa has seen 90 political murders since 2016, almost one per week. And unlike the violence that ravaged the country during apartheid, it’s not rivalry between parties, but members of the ANC killing each other. Municipal councillors are the most common victims – either because they’ve denounced corruption, or …
Read More »Memo suggests French intelligence knew about attack on Rwandan president in lead up to genocide
Radio France and the news site Mediapart published on Wednesday excerpts of a memo from the DGSE – the French equivalent of MI6 and the CIA – which seems to refute the idea that they knew nothing of the Rwandan genocide as it began to unfold.
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