The Ethiopian government and the Tigray rebels have agreed on a cessation of hostilities in this region of northern Ethiopia, which has been in conflict for two years.
Delegations from the Ethiopian federal government and the rebels had been meeting under the aegis of the AU since October 25 in Pretoria.
The Paris Assize Court on Wednesday sentenced ex-rebel commander Kunti Kamara to life imprisonment for acts of barbarism during Liberia's first civil war and for being an accomplice to crimes against humanity in facilitating rape.
Nine years to the day after the assassination of our colleagues Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Kidal in northern Mali, the scholarship bearing their name was awarded in Dakar, Senegal this Thursday.
This grant rewards a journalist and a technician for their reports produced following a 2-week training course provided by our colleagues at RFI.
Esther SENPA BLAKSEMDI, 25, is the journalist winner, she is from Cameroon.
Tiana RAKOTOMALALA, 26, from Madagascar won the reportage technician scholarship.
A Paris-Dakar by bike: this sporting journey is for humanitarian and ecological purposes.
This is the feat achieved by a young Senegalese.
Bamba Ndiaye.
This top athlete wants to make young people in his country aware of the risks of illegal emigration.
Our correspondent in Senegal Elimane Ndao met him.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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