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The sanctions imposed by the US government on Friday against the International Criminal Court (ICC) "take a serious blow to our collective action in favour of international criminal justice", deplores the UN Secretary General.
Several large cities in Senegal suffered torrential rains on Sunday. This is the case with Kaolack, Matam and Dakar and its suburbs. People died in the floods, according to the Senegalese head of state. The balance sheet is still unclear. The government said it had activated an emergency plan and measures to assist the victims. Report of our correspondents in Dakar: Simon Martin and Elimane Ndao.
In Guinea-Bissau, the military in power since the November 2025 coup blocked the return of former President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, citing security concerns. In exile in Morocco, Embalo announced a few days ago his return to the country and his candidacy for the presidential elections on 6 December.
A report by Marine Resse, Fanny Lothaire, and Mélanie Blondeau.
Since 23 September, fighting has resumed in northern Ethiopia. The hostilities broke out after months of tension between the federal government and the rebel authorities of the Tigray Regional State. The details of Constance Daire, East Africa journalist at Africa Intelligence.
In his speech, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke on Tuesday, 22 September of "the spectre of ethnic cleansing" as a result of Israel's action in the occupied West Bank, in front of dozens of heads of state and leaders gathered for the UN General Assembly. The explanations of Gauthier Rybinski, an international columnist in France 24.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz was under pressure on Monday 21 September to recover after regional electoral defeats against the radical left and the extreme right, the latter even predicting his departure before the end of the year. In the north-east of the country, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, its Conservative party, the CDU, was eliminated from the assembly, failing to achieve the elimination score of 5%, a first for a regional state in the history of the country since 1945. For further analysis, Paul Maurice, Secretary General of the Franco-German Relations Studies Committee at IFRI,
The radical left party Die Linke came to the top of the polls in the city state of Berlin after a regional election, ahead of the already weakened conservative CDU party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
One more step towards the total normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco. The Hebrew state and the darling kingdom announced the opening of two embassies. Both countries had normalized their diplomatic relations in December 2020 under the Abraham Accords.
Many African leaders were murdered while exercising power. Among the many cases recorded throughout the history of the continent, here is the Top 10 selected by BBC News Africa.
