West Africa

Trois diplomates français, dont deux conseillers politiques à l'ambassade de France à Ouagadougou, «sont déclarés persona non grata sur le territoire du Burkina Faso, pour activités subversives», annonce le ministère burkinabè des Affaires étrangères, dans un courrier daté du 16 avril 2024. «Elles sont donc priées de quitter le territoire du Burkina Faso dans les prochaines 48 heures», précise cette note adressée à l'ambassade française.

rewrite the following content in better words by rephrasing sentences using different words while maintaining their original meaning. I want you to randomize the length of your sentences between 5 and 24 words and keep HTML tagsThousands of people in Niger's capital on Saturday protested for the immediate departure of US soldiers from the north, after the military junta in Niamey said it was withdrawing from a military agreement with Washington. in English

rewrite the following content in better words by rephrasing sentences using different words while maintaining their original meaning. I want you to randomize the length of your sentences between 5 and 24 words and keep HTML tagsNiger's ruling junta is stepping up cooperation with Moscow, after expelling French troops last year. Also in the programme: at least three people have been killed in a shootout between militiamen and police in the Ethiopian capital. Among the dead are fighters from a rebel militia known as Fano.…

rewrite the following content in better words by rephrasing sentences using different words while maintaining their original meaning. I want you to randomize the length of your sentences between 5 and 24 words and keep HTML tagsRussian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with Moscow, state television announced late Thursday. in English

Following the suspension of political parties, Mali's military junta has now prohibited media coverage of them, signaling a tightening grip on dissent in the country.

Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan asserts that Sudan cannot retreat amid the upcoming first anniversary of its violent civil conflict. Senegal's new president brings hope for significant changes, yet few women occupy key roles in his administration. Meanwhile, Tunisia's restaurateurs are thriving as the Muslim community celebrates Ramadan.

The government of Togo announced on Tuesday that legislative elections have been postponed to April 29 due to a controversial constitutional reform.

Sixty years ago, on March 18, 1962, the Evian Agreement was signed between representatives of the French Government and those of the Provisional Government of Algeria (GPRA). The text defined the conditions for Algeria's independence and put an end to almost eight years of decolonization war. A conflict that had consequences in neighboring countries, especially in Mali, where then-President Modibo Keïta had supported the Algerian national liberation front. Our guest is the Malian journalist Tiegoum Boubeye Maïga.

It has been almost a week since the Senegalese army launched a military operation in Casamance, in the south of the country. Since Sunday, March 13, according to the staff, this operation aims to dismantle the MFDC bases of the rebel leader Salif Sadio's…

Accidents have been linked in recent weeks in several gold mines in Guinea. On March 1, more than a dozen people died in the collapse of a gallery in the Kounsitel area, in the north of the country. RFI was able to visit a handicraft gold-plating place near…