“It’s as if I had spent thirty years in the depths of a dungeon. And that, when I was finally allowed to breathe in the open air, someone grabbed my body and tried to send me back to this dungeon”, describes Tahra Al Mahdi. This professor of medicine alludes to the coup that allowed the … Read more
AA / Peter Kum Following a failed coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau, the army has already made arrests, announced President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.“The army is already making arrests,” President Umaro Sissoco Embalo announced at a press conference held Tuesday evening at the presidential palace in Bissau. The Guinean President also claimed to have escaped “more than … Read more
Twelve people detained for four years as part of an investigation into the massacre of 14 men in Casamance, southern Senegal, have been “cleared and released” and 13 others returned to a criminal chamber, we learned Monday with their lawyer. The 12 people who had been detained since January 2018 in Ziguinchor, the main city … Read more
There is an air of 2014 in these videos of railroad convoys carting through the snowy Russian steppe trucks, tanks, combat vehicles and other multiple rocket launcher systems. Published at the time on Vkontakte, a Russian clone of Facebook, or on Instagram, they will be exploited to identify the military equipment used by the separatist … Read more
After Mali, where a military junta has been in power since the summer of 2020, will the next domino to topple in the Sahel be Burkina Faso? The inhabitants of the Burkinabe capital were suddenly awakened, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, January 23, by heavy gunfire near several barracks in Ouagadougou. → READ. … Read more
A week and then go away. Arrived in Kazakhstan on January 6, the 2,300 soldiers from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) contingent, a kind of post-Soviet NATO led by Russia, began their withdrawal on Thursday, January 13. → ANALYSIS. In Kazakhstan, President Tokayev puts an end to the Nazarbayev era A ceremony was organized … Read more
Posted in: 13/01/2022 – 16:40 In new violence that comes just days after the launch of a dialogue under the supervision of the United Nations, a Sudanese policeman with the rank of brigadier was killed during the demonstrations in Khartoum on Thursday in protest against the coup of army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan. Security forces … Read more
It was a last-minute compromise, pulled out to avoid the embarrassment of a NATO summit that would otherwise be concluded without a strong announcement. In this month of April 2008, in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, the lines are clearly drawn: the American President George W. Bush wants to offer Georgia as well as Ukraine … Read more