A French court has dismissed a landmark lawsuit against controversial TotalEnergies projects in east Africa, which was filed by six French and Ugandan activist groups in 2018, using a 2017 law on multinationals operating outside France.
The Russian’s leader Vladimir Putin has invited his South Sudanese counterpart, Salva Kiir for the Russia-Africa summit.
This year’s summit, a Russian envoy said, will take place at St. Petersburg in July.
Two West African states are repatriating their citizens from Tunisia following inflammatory remarks by President Kais Saied last week.
Mr Saied said that migration was a “plot” to change the country’s demographic profile, blaming “traitors who are working for foreign countries”.
‘Colonisation is an unhappy memory that pushes many people to revolt.’
French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting several African countries this week in an attempt to reverse his country’s waning influence on the continent as key allies eye up partnerships with other global powers, including Russia.
À Niamey, une nouvelle réunion de haut-niveau de la Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh/ISIS a débuté le 1er mars 2023. Son objectif : faire des propositions pour vaincre les groupes terroristes comme le groupe État islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Le président français Emmanuel Macron a affirmé jeudi à Libreville que l’ère de la “Françafrique” était “révolue” et que la France était désormais un “interlocuteur neutre” sur le continent.
La junte militaire malienne a aliéné ses partenaires sécuritaires régionaux et internationaux alors même que la violence des groupes islamistes militants est en plein essor, provoquant un pic dans les décès de civils.
Depuis sa prise du pouvoir en août 2020, la junte militaire malienne a aliéné ses partenaires sécuritaires régionaux et internationaux et poursuivi une stratégie qui n’a fait qu’exacerber la violence des militants islamistes qui menacent le pays et accélérer la crise sécuritaire au Sahel.
Russia has systematically sought to undercut democracy in Africa, both to normalize authoritarianism as well as to create an entry point for Russian influence.
It is often said that since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the abandoning of communism that Russian foreign policy lacks an ideology.
The military junta in Mali has alienated regional and international security partners amid escalating violence by militant Islamist groups, leading to a spike in civilian fatalities.
Since taking power in August 2020, the military junta in Mali has alienated its regional and international security partners and pursued a strategy that has exacerbated the militant Islamist violence threatening the country, thereby accelerating the security crisis in the Sahel.
Continuing a decade-long upward trend, violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa increased by 22 percent while fatalities surged by 48 percent over the past year.
