The trial of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz opened on Wednesday in Nouakchott, offering the exceptional image of a former head of state placed in a cage-like box to answer for illicit enrichment.
He is on trial for having abused his power in order to amass an immense fortune, the one who led this largely desert country of 4.5 million inhabitants from 2008 to 2019.
Paris took note of Ouagadougou's request.
France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso within "a month" while the military in power have denounced the defense agreements binding the two countries... It is in this context that the Head of State Emmanuel Macron receives today his Ivorian counterpart Alassane Ouattara.
Burkina Faso and the situation in the Sahel will no doubt come up in the discussions between the two countries.
Côte d'Ivoire, which has not been spared by terrorism and which also fears contagion.
In Senegal, the ousting of Aminata Touré from the National Assembly continues to make headlines.
The former Prime Minister, who was close to President Macky Sall before slamming the door of the presidential party last September, was stripped of her mandate as a deputy by a vote of the office of the National Assembly on Tuesday.
She immediately denounced an “exclusion in total violation of the law”.
The correspondence of Sarah Sakho.
Only less than 1% of international funding and aid goes to feminist organisations.
Yet women are on the front line of battles and they are often the first victims of crises and conflicts.
This week an African feminist delegation is in Paris and for the occasion we receive Mamounata Ouedraogo, national coordinator of the Network for the Promotion and Empowerment of Rural Women based in Burkina Faso.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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