Côte d'Ivoire will gradually reduce its contribution to the peacekeeping mission in Mali (Minusma), according to a letter addressed to a
responsible for the UN by the Ivorian ambassador to the United Nations.
This decision comes in a tense context: the arrest in July of 46 Ivorian soldiers whom the ruling junta in Bamako accuses of being mercenaries.
Côte d'Ivoire, which says they were part of a contingent responsible for providing security and logistics on behalf of Minusma, is insistently demanding their release.
The city of Agadez in Niger, considered one of the cultural jewels of the country, has suffered greatly from insecurity.
For years travel agencies, hotels and guides have been able to count on the thousands of tourists who came to visit the region: 20,000 visitors per year on average, but today the situation is quite different.
Report by Harold Girard.
The world population has reached a new milestone today.
According to the UN, the Earth has 8 billion inhabitants.
More than half of the increase in world population projected until 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries – five of them in Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.
Another important data according to the UN: the countries of sub-Saharan Africa should contribute to more than half of the increase expected until 2050.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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