Франция планирует сократить численность своего военного контингента в Западной и Центральной Африке до 600 военнослужащих. Об этом 17 июня сообщает агентство France Presse (AFP) со ссылкой на источники. В сентябре 2023 года Эммануэль Макрон объявил о «заметном сокращении» присутствия французских войск в Африке, поскольку, как сообщали французские в...
A deadly nationwide political crackdown in the East African nation is now in the past. But the return to international favour, and benefits like development assistance that come with it, has been slow. As always, everyday citizens feel it most. According to United Nations figures, it's never been easy in landlocked Burundi, which at times has been ...
Former South African president Jacob Zuma criticized Sunday the country's new coalition government and called for fresh elections. "There must be a repeat. No, There must be an elections," Zuma, who's also the leader of the new uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, said at a press briefing in Johannesburg. The MK Party came third in the May 29 electio...
The late Malawian Vice President will be buried on Monday in his home district of Ntcheu 180km south of Lilongwe. The 51-year-old Saulos Chilima and 8 other individuals including the ex-wife of the former Malawian President died when a twin-propeller aircraft went down in a hilly, forested area in bad weather. A state service was conducted on...
The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday demanding that Sudan's paramilitary force immediately halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn't control and where more than a million people are reportedly trapped. The British-sponsored resolution, which was approved by a vote of 14-0 with R...
The leader of South Africa's second biggest party said on Friday it will back Cyril Ramaphosa for president, almost guaranteeing he will be reelected in Parliament for a second term. John Steenhuisen, the leader of the Democratic Alliance, the second biggest party, said there was now a signed agreement with the ANC to co-govern Africa's most ...
Ультиматум, предложение капитуляции, продолжение агрессии — так Запад и Киев отреагировали на путинские предложения об условиях прекращения огня и начале переговоров об урегулировании конфликта."Путин не в том положении, чтобы диктовать Украине, что она должна делать для достижения мира", заявил министр обороны США Ллойд Остин. Генсек НАТО Сто...
Вчера Дмитрий Медведев выступил с программной статьей "Время метрополий истекло". Поскольку автор не только председатель крупнейшей политической партии России, но и заместитель председателя Совета Безопасности РФ, каждое слово приобретает значение государственного масштаба. Обращаясь к вопросам, которые в первую очередь будут интересны зарубежным ч...
Нижняя палата парламента ЮАР — Национальная ассамблея по итогам тайного голосования избрала президентом страны действующего главу государства Сирила Рамафосу, передает News24.com. Об этом на первом заседании ассамблеи заявил главный судья ЮАР Раймонд Зондо. Рамафоса получил 283 голоса депутатов, я провозглашаю его избранным президентом ЮАР, — заяви...
South African lawmakers were beginning to be sworn in on Friday (Jun. 14) in Cape Town. The chief justice Raymond Zondo oversaw the first part of the parliamentary session, during which lawmakers took the oath of office. In the second part of the session, parliamentrians elect the president and vice president. Cyril Ramaphosa is seeking a sec...
Russian navy ships arrived in the Cuban port of Havana on Wednesday ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean.The four-ship group included a frigate, a nuclear-powered submarine, and two support vessels – a fuel ship and a rescue tug.The mission comes less than two weeks after President Joe Biden authorised Kyiv to use US-provided weapon...
Haiti's new Cabinet was formally inaugurated on Wednesday, marking the final step in rebuilding the government that will lead a country under siege by gangs. In his speech, Prime Minister Garry Conille repeated the need to increase security in the country which is within the grips of gang warfare. He also spoke on the humanitarian crisis grip...
Riots erupted in Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret, a central Algerian city of less than 200,000 located 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of Algiers protestors wearing balaclavas set tires aflame and set up m...
South Africa's third biggest political party, led by former president Jacob Zuma, has filed legal papers seeking to halt the first sitting of Parliament scheduled for Friday to elect the country's president. Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe Party has said none of its 58 newly elected lawmakers will attend the sitting. The party earlier filed objection...
The Malawi government said Wednesday that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he died in a plane crash along with eight other people. President Lazarus Chakwera had already announced 21 days of national mourning on Tuesday, when the wreckage of the small military plane carrying Chilima and a former first l...
День России - государственный праздник, который каждый год официально отмечается в одну и ту же дату - 12 июня. Когда появился этот праздник в нашей стране, в чем его суть, почему его называют днем рождения современной России, на какие числа выпадают выходные в связи с торжеством в 2024 году, - в материале РИА Новости.День РоссииПраздник, который н...
The death toll in an attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday by militants and Islamist rebels has risen to at least 41, the government said on Monday. Red Cross volunteers and young people from the village of Masala in the eastern North Kivu province have been searching for bodies since the incident. Locals said armed men using g...
Malawi's vice president, Saulos Chilima, was among 10 people killed when a small military plane crashed in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. President Lazarus Chakwera announced in a live address on state television that the wreckage of the plane had been located after a search of more than a day in thick...
Глава российского МИД Сергей Лавров вызвал негодование в США своим поведением в Африке. Такими данными поделились журналисты из КНР. Некоторое время назад американские военные провели крупные учения «Африканский лев — 2024», которые проходили на территории Туниса, Сенегала, Ганы и Марокко. Мероприятие широко освещалось западными СМИ, которые пытали...
Бразилия и Южная Африка до сих пор официально не подтвердили отправку делегаций на мирную конференцию по Украине, которая состоится 15 и 16 июня в Швейцарии, заявила на пресс-конференции швейцарский президент Виола Амхерд."Турция подтвердила свое участие, но Бразилия и Южная Африка до сих пор официально не подтвердили отправку делегаций", - сказала...
