Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: an “increasingly volatile” situation, according to the UN
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) describes an “increasingly volatile” security situation in the east in a weekend...
War in Sudan: at least 28 dead and 240 injured in paramilitary attack on...
At least 28 people were killed in Sudan during an attack by paramilitary forces on a village south of Khartoum, two Sudanese pro-democracy organizations...
Brazil: investigation opened against Elon Musk after his attacks on a judge
A judge of the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered, on Sunday April 7, the opening of an investigation against Elon Musk, owner of the...
Mexico to take violation of its embassy in Ecuador to the International Court of...
Mexico announced its intention to seize the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial body of the United Nations, on Monday April 8,...
Rwanda: thirty years after the Tutsi genocide, Paul Kagame points the finger at the...
Kigali fell silent on Sunday April 7. In the deserted streets, the shops kept their curtains closed. Not a red motorcycle taxi stationed at...
Access to palliative care, “rabbit tax”… the five news items of the weekend
Presented as the societal reform of Emmanuel Macron's second five-year term, the opening of "assisted dying" appears in the end-of-life bill which will be...
Genocide in Rwanda: Emmanuel Macron accepts his declarations of 2021, when he recognized the...
“France assumes everything and exactly that in the terms that I used” on May 27, 2021, declared Sunday April 7, Emmanuel Macron in a...
Israel-Hamas war, day 184: the Israeli army announces withdrawing part of its troops from...
Six months after the attack perpetrated by Hamas in Israel, clashes left 33,175 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to a report...
Mexican diplomats prepare to leave Ecuador after police raid on embassy in Quito
Mexican diplomatic staff based in Quito will leave Ecuador on Sunday April 7, two days after the police raid against the Mexican embassy which...
Beijing announces 'combat patrols' in South China Sea on Sunday
China announced on Sunday April 7 that it would carry out “combat patrols” in the South China Sea – a contested maritime zone –...
Slovakia: Peter Pellegrini wins the presidential election, according to an almost complete count
Slovakia’s populist government ally, Peter Pellegrini, won Saturday’s (April 6) presidential election, according to a 99% count of ballots.Mr Pellegrini received 53.55% of the...
In Kenya, Stéphane Séjourné at the “new frontiers” of French diplomacy
In Nairobi, for his first stopover on the African continent since his arrival at the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in January,...
Israel-Hamas war, day 183: American and Israeli negotiators expected in Cairo to talk about...
The war between Israel and Hamas has left 33,137 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to a report released on Saturday April...
“Strait of Gibraltar: between Europe and Africa”, on Arte: a coveted rock at the...
Summarizing the complexity of the geopolitical issues surrounding the Strait of Gibraltar in thirty-five minutes was a challenge. Journalist Emilie Aubry noted this in...
In Pakistan, senior officers sanctioned “for example” after an attack against Chinese engineers
Pakistani authorities announced on Saturday April 6 that they had sanctioned senior police officers after a suicide attack that killed five Chinese engineers at...
Earthquake in Taiwan: death toll rises to thirteen, more than 1,000 injured
Helicopters continued on Saturday April 6 to evacuate dozens of tourists trapped for four days by landslides in a mountain range in the east...
Afghanistan: In a rare message, Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada calls on Afghans to...
The supreme leader of the Taliban on Saturday, April 6, urged Afghans to observe Islamic law imposed by his government, which is to date...
Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador following police intrusion into its embassy in Quito
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered on Saturday April 6 the “suspension” of diplomatic relations with Ecuador after police officers from that country...
Israel-Hamas war: six fighters killed during Israeli raids in southern Lebanon, according to two...
Lebanese Hezbollah and its Shiite party ally, the Amal movement, announced the death of six of their members on Friday April 5 in Israeli...
Israel-Hamas war, day 182: UN Human Rights Council calls for halt to arms sales...
The war between Israel and Hamas has left 33,091 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to a report released Friday April 5...
Humanitarians killed in Gaza: Israeli army admits series of “serious errors”
The Israeli army recognized, Friday April 5, a series of “serious errors” which caused the death of seven humanitarian workers, killed Monday in Gaza...
Israel-Hamas War: “For forty-eight years, Western countries have reduced the Palestinian question to a...
At dawn on October 7, 2023, the armed wing of Hamas launched an unprecedented deadly attack against Israel. That day, at least 1,160 people...
Angola: the five-year prison sentence of the son of former President dos Santos overturned
The five-year prison sentence for fraud handed down in 2020 against the son of Angola's former president, José Eduardo dos Santos, was overturned and...
Rwanda: for Emmanuel Macron, France “could have stopped the genocide”, but “did not have...
A few days before the 30th anniversary of the start of the massacres in Rwanda and while he had already recognized, in 2021, France's...
South Africa: the ANC weakened by the arrest of the President of the National...
Thirty years of career collapsed in three weeks. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's fortunes took a nosedive on March 19 when investigators raided her house looking for...
Russian interference in Europe: Jordan Bardella claims that “no elected official” from the National...
The president of the National Rally and head of the list for the European election, Jordan Bardella, affirmed on Thursday April 4 that “no...
Israel-Hamas war, day 181: Biden-Netanyahu interview, open letter from British lawyers
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, announced on Thursday April 4 a new toll of 33,037 people killed in...
Israel-Hamas war: Joe Biden warns Benjamin Netanyahu that US policy towards Gaza will be...
During a telephone interview with Benjamin Netanyahu – the first since March 18 – the American president suggested, for the first time, Thursday April...
The slow evolution of French justice to judge the genocide of the Tutsi in...
The sentence was heavy. For having “participated in the genocidal policy by adhering to it, but also by taking an active part in it...
In Tunisia, the body responsible for supervising elections will cooperate with Russia
Repressed opponents, an illusion of pluralism and an electoral plebiscite: will the vote which ended in the triumphant re-election of Vladimir Putin set the...
In Taiwan, rescuers search for hundreds of people trapped after powerful earthquake
Thursday April 4, the day after the most powerful earthquake to hit Taiwan in twenty-five years, rescuers stepped up efforts to free dozens of...
Diplomatic cold snap between Madagascar and the European Union
The scathing statements by the European ambassador, Isabelle Delattre Burger, on the law introducing surgical castration for child rapists adopted at the end of...
Ivory Coast: Guillaume Soro claims to have spoken on the phone with President Alassane...
Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast Guillaume Soro, in exile since 2019, indicated on Thursday April 4 that he had spoken on the phone...
South Africa: Resigned Speaker of Parliament arrested for corruption
The resigning Speaker of the South African Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, was arrested on Thursday April 4 after turning herself in to the police as...
In Libya, the foundation of Prime Minister Dbeibah weakened
Rockets fired on Sunday March 31 at a house of the clan of Abdel Hamid Dbeibah in the Libyan capital: the incident sounds like...
The Importance of Trusted Websites in the Age of Misinformation
With waves of misinformation threatening to flood the truth and engulfing an ocean of data, it has never been so vital for us to...
Aid workers killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza: Israeli explanations “unacceptable” and “insufficient” according...
The bodies of six foreign workers from the humanitarian NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) killed on Monday in an Israeli bombing arrived in Egypt...
Botswana president threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
The president of Botswana has threatened Germany with transferring up to 20,000 elephants, irritated to see Berlin criticizing the hunting of pachyderms and the...
North Korea says it tested medium-to-long-range hypersonic missile
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the test of a new medium-to-long-range solid-fueled hypersonic missile, state agency KCNA said on Wednesday (April 3), praising...
Underwater earthquake measuring greater than 7 magnitude near Taiwan
An underwater earthquake of magnitude greater than 7 occurred on Wednesday April 3 near Taiwan, causing tsunami warnings in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines.“Two...