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America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, turning at a time of national crisis to a man whose character was forged by aching personal tragedy and who is pledging to restore calm and truth after Donald Trump's, exhausting and manic single term. In a...
One of the modes of financing terrorism in Burkina Faso, the victim of attacks by jihadists in recent years, is well known. It is the president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who says it himself. Head of State Roch Marc Christian Kaboré said he had...
The head of state, Patrice Talon, outgoing President of Benin, is running for the presidential election in April 2021. He has admittedly revealed it himself. But he has to face opponents who want his place. He officially declared himself a candidate just over 72...
He has been on the job since the end of 2012 and has been fighting ulcerative colitis, a chronic disease, for several years. Political thunderstorm in Japan. Aged 65, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign on Friday, August 28, for...
The Chadian capital, N’Djamena, is preparing to host the G5 Sahel Summit on February 15 and 16, 2021, amid internal tensions, while Paris considers a shift in its military effort. In the direction of increasing or reducing its workforce? That's what this meeting is all about.
South African police confirmed that EFF MP Kenny Motsamai was arrested and charged during demonstrations against the "racist" Clicks ad in Evaton. Vishnu Naidoo said Motsamai was arrested in front of the Clicks in Evaton near Sedibeng on...
« Près de 1.2 milliard d’euros seront consacrés à la lutte contre le covid-19, en Afrique », a déclaré le ministre des affaires étrangères français, Jean-Yves Le Drian. L’épidémie gagne peu à peu le continent africain, le confinement est difficile à mettre...
Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, one of the main opponents of President Vladimir Putin, is in hospital "in intensive care", his spokesman said on Twitter on Thursday 20 August. "We assume that Alexei was poisoned," she wrote, saying Navalny first "felt bad" on a plane and has...
The United States, which is pushing to isolate Iran, denounced an "inexcusable" vote. For its part, Tehran welcomed the vote, saying Washington has "never been so isolated." Washington was not deluding itself but hoped to appear less alone in its strategy to fight Iranian...
Le Pape François, pour la première fois, organise une messe de Pâques à l'heure du confinement, derrière les portes closes de la basilique Saint-Pierre à Rome. Dans son message, le souverain pontife a proposé « de réduire » voire « d'annuler » la dette des pays pauvres, et lancé...