On 24 June, around 2 000 sub-Saharan African migrants, who had gathered the night before in north-eastern Morocco, set off at dawn to cross the border and reach the Spanish city of Melilla, about 4 km away.
A diplomatic crisis is brewing in the Maghreb region amid tension between Morocco and Tunisia after President Kais Saied received the leader of the Polisario Front.
Tunisian President Kais Saied’s decision to receive Brahim Ghali — the leader of the Polisario Front, a rebel group fighting for independence in the Western Sahara — late last month has developed into a diplomatic crisis with repercussions spilling into the sports world.
La récente décision de la France de réduire fortement le nombre de visas délivrés dans plusieurs pays du continent a relancé les débats sur les conditions d’obtention de ce précieux sésame. Frais de dossier, taux de refus élevé, non-remboursement… Décryptage en infographies.
Un projet de loi américain vise à contenir certaines activités de la Russie en Afrique. Sur le continent, des voix s’élèvent pour protester contre cette tentative d’ingérence.
C’est au moment où le fossoyeur de la guerre froide Mikhaïl Gorbatchev disparaît que s’esquisse à nouveau une épreuve de force entre les États-Unis et le cœur de l’ancienne Union soviétique. Un bras de fer particulièrement tendu dans la gestion de la crise ukrainienne. De même que certaines nations africaines accédant à l’indépendance ont été ballotées, entre 1960 et 1989, entre les enjeux stratégiques des blocs du Nord, les membres du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies scrutent et cataloguent, aujourd’hui, les régimes du continent.
Why the Continent Is Caught Between Russia and the West
As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine enters its seventh month, many African countries have yet to show strong support for Kyiv, to the chagrin of Western leaders. In the early days of the conflict, after 17 African countries declined to back a UN resolution condemning Russia, several European diplomats assigned to African capitals made a grand show of browbeating African leaders for not taking a stand against the invasion. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, in particular, was the target of some strikingly undiplomatic tweets, with Riina Kionka, at the time the EU’s ambassador to Pretoria, writing that “we were puzzled because [South Africa] sees itself and is seen by the world as a country championing human rights.”
Libya
Worst fighting in years broke out in capital Tripoli between forces loyal to rival govts, raising prospect of a return to full-blown war. Fighting 26-27 Aug raged across Tripoli as forces aligned with Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR)-appointed PM Bashagha failed to take control of capital and oust Tripoli-based govt of PM Dabaiba; 32 people reportedly killed and 159 injured. Flare-up followed days of escalating tensions between rival factions.
On August 26, 2022, there was the bombing by Ethiopian federal troops of a primary school in Mekelle—the capital city of the Tigray province, which had a population of about 500,000 before the fighting began. It is not clear if the attack brings to an end some five months of relative calm in the war-torn Tigray or not.
Russia’s Army Games factsheet, publicly distributed at the centrally coordinated information bureau, documented an increase in the annual purchases of military equipment by foreign clients including African countries. Our monitoring and research show that Russia has traditionally maintained good relations with north African countries especially Algeria and Egypt.
Dans un communiqué du 27 août, le ministère des Affaires étrangères turc a vivement réagi aux propos tenus la veille par Emmanuel Macron sur l’influence de la Turquie en Afrique, lors du second jour de sa visite officielle en Algérie.
« Extrêmement regrettable ». C’est l’expression utilisée par le porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères, Tanju Bilgiç, en réponse aux propos tenus par Emmanuel Macron lors du deuxième jour de son séjour officiel en Algérie.
PM Abiy has used starvation as a weapon, while negotiations have sputtered due to mistrust and weak international oversight.
The long-anticipated renewed round of war between the Federal Government of Ethiopia against the Tigrayans began at dawn on August 24. The first shots were fired on the southern borders of Tigray near the town of Alamata. Each side blames the other for firing them.