African Union: who to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat?
The race to succeed Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat, who will leave his post at the head of the African Union (AU) Commission in February...
Gabon: Ali Bongo’s family files a complaint in France to denounce his arbitrary “sequestration”
Lawyers for the Bongo family announced to Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Tuesday, May 14, that they had filed a new complaint in Paris to...
In Senegal, the government suspends construction sites on the coast of Dakar
In Senegal, the new government announced on Tuesday, May 14, the suspension for two months of all construction on the coast of Dakar and...
Brazil: Lula dismisses the boss of the oil giant Petrobras
The government of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, dismissed the CEO of the public oil giant Petrobras, Jean Paul...
In Baltimore, the boat that hit a bridge suffered two electrical outages just before...
Questions about the incredible accident involving a boat and a bridge in Baltimore (United States) at the end of March will perhaps dissipate. In...
In Germany, Björn Höcke, a far-right leader, fined 13,000 euros for using a Nazi...
On Tuesday May 14, German justice sentenced Björn Höcke, one of the most radical figures of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, to...
In Thailand, Netiporn Sanehsankhom, a pro-democracy activist on hunger strike, has died
A Thai democracy activist, detained on lese majeste charges while awaiting trial, died following a hunger strike, the prison administration said on Tuesday (May...
Director Mohammad Rasoulof calls for support from world cinema after fleeing Iran
Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who clandestinely fled Iran for an undisclosed location in Europe, implored world cinema on Tuesday May 14 to provide “strong support”...
In Niger, the uranium issue at the origin of discord with the United States,...
Niger decided to break off its military cooperation with the United States in March due to “threats” made by American officials, said the prime...
In Georgia, Parliament Passes Much-Maligned “Foreign Influence” Bill
The Georgian Parliament adopted the controversial bill on “foreign influence” on Tuesday, May 14, despite large-scale demonstrations against this text which, according to its...
In Niger, a Chinese company will resume uranium mining after ten years of interruption
The Société des mines d'Azelik (Somina), majority owned by Chinese, will resume its uranium mining activities in northern Niger, which it had suspended ten...
In Mali, a collective of parties and civil society organizations denounces a “masquerade of...
Denouncing a “masquerade”, a collective of parties and organizations from Malian civil society rejected the prospect of several years of military rule recommended following...
Nearly 76 million internally displaced people around the world at the end of 2023,...
Conflicts in Sudan, Gaza and the Democratic Republic of Congo have pushed the number of internally displaced people to an all-time high of 75.9...
Indonesia: death toll from floods and cold lava flows reaches fifty
Indonesian rescuers have found new bodies on the island of Sumatra, after significant flooding and cold lava flows caused by torrential rains.According to a...
In Afghanistan, new clashes linked to the eradication of the poppy
New clashes broke out on Monday, May 13, between Taliban troops responsible for destroying poppy fields and farmers in the mountainous province of Badakhshan,...
In Tunisia, lawyers on strike to protest against the violent arrest of their colleague...
Tunisian lawyers observed a strike on Monday May 13 in all the country's courts to protest against the arrest of one of their colleagues...
In Georgia, youth take to the streets to oppose the law on “foreign influence”...
A thousand demonstrators, most of them young, were still gathered on Monday May 13 in front of the Parliament of Georgia, a Caucasian country...
Ivory Coast: between Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé, the impossible succession
One wrote his trajectory in the shadow of the other, hoping that at the end of the road, his political father would pass the...
In Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye imposes a new presidential style
A sobriety which, deliberately, does not go unnoticed. Returning from a “working and friendship” visit to Ivory Coast, Tuesday May 7, the new Senegalese...
At Donald Trump's trial, lawyer Michael Cohen admits to having lied for his ex-client,...
He was the faithful lieutenant, but he swore his downfall: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, claimed Monday, May 13, to have lied and...
In Armenia, 151 demonstrators opposed to a transfer of land to Azerbaijan arrested
Armenian police announced that 151 demonstrators were arrested on Monday, May 13, in the capital, Yerevan, as they protested against the government's decision to...
Presidential election in Chad: Success Masra calls for the cancellation of the vote
Success Masra, who came second in the presidential election in Chad, announced on Sunday May 12 that he had filed a request with the...
Guinea: at the trial of the massacre of September 28, 2009, Moussa Dadis Camara...
Twenty months after the opening of the largest criminal hearing in its history, Guinean justice is preparing to begin the final phase of the...
In Canada, thousands of people evacuated due to forest fires in the West
Thousands of people had to be evacuated in Western Canada, where hundreds of forest fires were raging, on Sunday May 13, while the fire...
Vladimir Putin fires Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu
He is one of the faces of the Russian assault in Ukraine. But more than two years after the start of the war, Sergei...
Presidential election in Lithuania: the outgoing president well ahead of the first round, ahead...
As in 2019, Gitanas Nauseda and Ingrida Simonyte will face each other in the second round of the presidential election in Lithuania on May...
Elections in Catalonia: separatists lose their majority
The independence parties, which have ruled Catalonia for a decade, lost their majority in the regional Parliament on Sunday May 12, according to the...
Law on “foreign influence” in Georgia: thousands of demonstrators despite government warnings
Several thousand Georgians gathered in front of the Parliament in Tbilisi on Sunday evening, May 12, to protest against a Russian-inspired bill on “foreign...
Russian offensive in Kharkiv, war in Gaza, Eurovision… the five things to remember from...
Have you missed the news a bit in the last two days? We summarize the main information for Saturday May 11 and Sunday May...
North Macedonia: the new president refuses to use the country's official name
Newly elected, the first female president of North Macedonia refused to pronounce the new name of the country used since an agreement concluded in...
United States: risk of unprecedented strike in an Apple store
Employees of the Apple Store in Towson, an American town in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, had already achieved a first in June 2022,...
In Germany, environmental protesters march in front of the Tesla factory in Grünheide
More than a thousand environmental protesters demonstrated again on Saturday May 11 against Tesla's plan to expand its electric car factory established since 2022...
Madagascar: former chief of staff of President Andry Rajoelina convicted of corruption in London
After demanding bribes from a mining company and being trapped in London by investigators, Romy Andrianarisoa, former chief of staff to Malagasy President Andry...
India: Released from prison, opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal calls on country to fight “dictatorship”
Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi and one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's main opponents, on Saturday May 11 called on India to fight...
Eurovision 2024 overtaken by the war in Gaza, the Dutch candidate was excluded
The Eurovision final will take place on the evening of Saturday May 11 in Malmö, Sweden, in a context of tension heightened by the...
Contemporary African art: the Blachère Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary
Nestled in the former Bonnieux station (Vaucluse), in the heart of the Luberon, about forty kilometers east of Avignon, the Blachère Foundation is celebrating...
Iraq asks the UN to lift its political mission in the country
The Iraqi government has asked the United Nations (UN) to end its political mission in the country for more than twenty years by the...
In Kuwait, new political crisis with the dissolution of Parliament by the Emir
Kuwait is experiencing a new political crisis with the dissolution of Parliament on Friday May 10, barely six weeks after the elections.“An order from...
Russia increases its presence in Libya, to the great dismay of Westerners
Piece by piece, the strategic structure outlined by Moscow in North Africa is being consolidated. The Russian presence in Libya, already tangible from 2019...
Eurovision 2024: European artists and politicians consider calls for a boycott of Israel during...
“Politics has no place at Eurovision,” declared Friday May 10, the French Minister for Europe, Jean-Noël Barrot, who, like other European elected officials and...