Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected overnight from Monday to Tuesday in Mali.

His visit "materializes the firm will" of President Goïta and Vladimir Poutine "to stimulate a new dynamic" in their cooperation in the fields of defense and security as well as at the economic level, indicated the Malian Foreign Affairs.

The decryption of Thierry Vircoulon, associate researcher at IFRI. 

In DR Congo the city of Goma slowed down on Monday but demonstrations degenerated.

Several citizens' movements in North Kivu have called for activities to cease for a week.

They consider the regional force of the countries of East Africa ineffective in the face of the advance of the M23.

The follow-up to the investigation into the assassination of journalist Martinez Zogo two weeks ago in Cameroon.

Several arrests took place on Monday, among them, that of Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga.

The influential businessman rubs shoulders with several ministers and senior state officials.  

On the occasion of the international day against female genital mutilation, we take you to Côte d'Ivoire.

+ than a third of women are victims of it.

Hami Traore is a writer.

Herself circumcised at the age of 11, she fights against this illegal practice.

His books are not his only weapon.

Sophie Lamotte and Sadja Mandjo followed her in the field with her NGO.

Editor: Célia Caracena

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