Africa

Largement dépendante du secteur minier, Kinshasa a officiellement lancé les appels d’offres pour 30 blocs pétro-gaziers (au lieu de 16 initialement prévus), dont deux appartenant au magnat israélien Dan Gertler. De quoi susciter l’appétit des géants.

President Kais Saied calims victory as mandate for his reforms. Around 2,458,985 Tunisian voters participated in the referendum on the constitution suggested by President Kais Saied. The total number of registered voters amounted to 8,929,665. Thus, only 27.54% of the registered voters participated according to records of the Independent High …

Algeria will try to find a consensus about the return of Syria to the League in the upcoming meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, according to Asharq al-Awsat. Algeria, as the host country of the next Arab League summit, still insists on Damascus’s invitation, an official of the Algerian …

The killing of longtime al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri could accelerate a trend that has been consistently emerging in recent years—the factionalization and regionalization of the global jihadist movement. To survive, al-Qaeda adopted a franchising strategy which led it to expand worldwide and establish regional branches in the Levant, North Africa, …

Ethiopia’s Somali region is mobilizing against al-Shabab militants to prevent further incursions by the group. The region had been hailed as the most peaceful in Ethiopia since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018. But that was put to the test three weeks ago when al-Shabab fighters forced …

Mali on Tuesday received military jets and a combat helicopter from Russia. During a ceremony, L-39 and Sukhoi-25 jets as well as Mi-24P helicopter gunships were displayed. Defense Minister Sadio Camara paid tribute to what he called Mali’s “win-win partnership with the Russian Federation.” The new deliveries “strengthen our reconnaissance …

Turkey’s hosting of the head of Libya’s eastern-based parliament sets a meaningful landmark in its bid to reshape its Libya policy. Top Turkish officials received a prominent leader of eastern Libya this week, signaling a significant policy shift in the Libyan civil strife two years after Ankara lent military support …

In Bamako’s popular Darsalam neighborhood, a young gendarme stands by a newly barricaded street, his hand on the trigger of a rifle pointed slightly to the ground. The armed policeman is a sign of how Mali’s bustling capital of more than 2.5 million people on the banks of the Niger …

At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured Friday when al-Shabab extremists attacked a town that sits on the Somali side of the border with Ethiopia, according to witnesses and officials. “The militants launched a surprise dawn attack on the town of Aato in the Bakol …

OPINION. Les anciens colons ont encore la faiblesse de ne pas associer le continent aux grands enjeux mondiaux, estime Robert Dussey, ministre des affaires étrangères du Togo et l’un des diplomates africains les plus influents Le rôle assigné à l’Afrique depuis le début de la guerre en Ukraine est évocateur …