Politics

Togo’s Head of State, Faure Gnassingbé, appointed 20 senators to the country’s new Senate on Wednesday evening. This appointment completes the election of 41 senators on February 15, 2025, which was boycotted by part of the Togolese opposition. Togo’s Senate is expected to have 61 members, a third of whom …

Since the end of January, conflicts in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have claimed more than 8,500 lives in Goma, a city under threat from the March 23 Movement (M23) rebellion, which claims control of the area, the Congolese government announced on Thursday evening. According to …

Prosecutors in Mauritania have asked an appeals court to sentence former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 20 years in prison for abuse of office. Aziz is currently appealing a five-year sentence received in 2023 after he was convicted of using his position to amass a fortune while in power …

Kenya’s president, William Ruto, on Monday described the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo as very complicated and said it could only be solved diplomatically. “We do not see, from where I sit, a possibility of a military solution to the challenges that face the eastern DRC,” William Ruto …

In an audio message to his supporters, the former Gambian president announced his return to political affairs, notably as head of the Patriotic Alliance for Reorientation and Construction (APRC). “I have decided, today, to take back the leadership of my party and not to entrust it to anyone else,” declares …

The main and last French military base Camp Geille will be handed over to the Senegalese armed forces in September, according to reports. For the time being, dozens of soldiers and their families reside there. Reportedly, this information was revealed during a courtesy visit by French General Pascal Ianni, head …

A few days after sanctioning the paramilitary leader, the United States announced sanctions against the head of the Sudanese army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on Thursday January 16,while regretting that Washington’s efforts had failed to bring an end to the conflict ravaging this East African country. “Taken together, these sanctions …

A former Defence Minister Mohamed Diané has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption, illicit enrichment, embezzlement, and money laundering by a court in Guinea. Diané, who served under ex-President Alpha Condé from 2015 to 2021, must also pay a $58.5 million fine, and his properties in Conakry …

At least 14 people were killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip this morning, including 10 when Israeli warplanes bombed a residential building in Gaza City, amid reports that ceasefire talks are moving closer to agreement. The attack in Gaza City targeted the Tabatibi family home in the Daraj …

According to reports, 39 villagers were murdered in two separate attacks in the villages of dekokorou and libiri, in the Téra department of western Niger. “Two appalling tragedies have struck the localities of Libiri and Kokorou: criminals, blamed by the constant operations of the defense and security forces, have cowardly …