Press freedom is increasingly under threat in the Sahel, warns Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in an investigation entitled “In the shoes of a journalist in the Sahel”. In this forty-page document, the NGO details the multiple dangers and threats faced by journalists in the region. Chance of the calendar: this publication comes the day after … Read more
Published on : 03/04/2023 – 08:08 On the front page of the press, this Monday, April 3, the reactions to the expulsions from Burkina Faso of the correspondents of the French daily newspapers Le Monde and Liberation, after the suspension of the broadcast of France F24 and RFI. The presentation, today in France, of the … Read more
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte Idrac The three coffins are covered with the green-yellow-red flag. The body lifting ceremony was held in the Dial Diop district, headquarters of the Senegalese general staff. « May the earth be light to them », declares Colonel Mathieu Diogoye Sène. The commander of the 11th Senegalese detachment of … Read more
Published on : 20/02/2023 – 23:25 A “moving” military patrol fell victim to a “complex” attack on Friday in northern Burkina Faso. According to the latest report communicated Monday evening by the Burkinabè army, at least 51 soldiers lost their lives. At least 51 soldiers were killed on Friday February 17 in an ambush by … Read more
Published on : 13/01/2023 – 11:34 While Africa has managed to absorb the shock caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the continent’s economy remains hard hit by inflation linked to the war in Ukraine, as well as by the effects of global warming, alert, Thursday, the French Development Agency. It is one of the most resilient … Read more
Published on : 20/01/2023 – 22:44 Authorities in Burkina Faso announced on Friday the release of sixty-six women and young children captured by an armed group last week in the north of the country. Sixty-two women and four babies were released on Friday, January 20, by the armed forces of the Burkina Fasomore than a … Read more
Published on : 31/12/2022 – 06:45 President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, during an interview granted this week to the French daily Le Figaro, mentioned, without citing it, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner and its presence in the countries of the Sahel. A presence that he did not hesitate to criticize. With our correspondent in Algiers, Fayçal Metaoui … Read more
Published on : 27/12/2022 – 10:50Modified : 27/12/2022 – 10:51 First in Burkina Faso, a ” Blood Christmas : one more drama, one too many dramas! exclaims You cut it. Sunday, December 25, reports the newspaper, “ on the RN 4, Fada-Kantchari axis, a public transport minibus hit a mine. The toll is catastrophic: 10 … Read more