{"id":2984,"date":"2021-11-22T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2021-11-22T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:54:56","slug":"francophone-africa-update-22-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"Francophone Africa update: 22 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#CongoHoldUp<\/strong>: Investigation into plunder of <strong>DRC<\/strong> resources by ex-President Kabila\u2019s inner circle. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.mg.co.za\/wp-media\/2021\/11\/92eac688-thecontinentissue65.pdf\">The Continent<\/a> (pp 11-15) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-59343922?at_custom2=twitter&amp;at_custom3=BBC+Africa&amp;at_custom4=4835521A-4939-11EC-9E07-5D04933C408C&amp;at_campaign=64&amp;at_medium=custom7&amp;at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D\">BBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20211119-congo-hold-up-comment-l-ong-the-sentry-a-pu-tracer-l-argent-des-kabilas\">RFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Security-related protests in <strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following a deadly attack in Inata, opposition and civil society led demonstrations calling for President Kabor\u00e9\u2019s resignation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/afrique\/region-59290753\">BBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2021\/11\/19\/au-burkina-faso-la-colere-monte-apres-l-attaque-meurtriere-du-poste-d-inata_6102704_3212.html\">Le Monde<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Over the weekend, fresh protests blocked a French military convoy in Kaya. Mobile internet access has been disrupted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/protesters-gather-outside-ouagadougou-to-block-french-military-convoy-headed-to-niger\/6322071.html\">VOA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/french-military-convoy-blocked-burkina-faso-by-protesters-2021-11-19\/\">REUTERS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20211119-burkina-faso-un-convoi-militaire-fran%C3%A7ais-bloqu%C3%A9-%C3%A0-l-entr%C3%A9e-de-la-ville-de-kaya\">RFI <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tunisia<\/strong>: Trial of anti-corruption activist shines light on use of military courts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/tunisian-trial-shines-light-on-use-of-military-courts\/6322131.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">VOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UN renews <strong>Central African Republic<\/strong> mission amid growing feud over Russian mercenaries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/146692\/un-renews-car-mission-amid-growing-feud-over-russian-mercenaries\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=post_articles_twitter_15_11_2021&amp;utm_medium=social\">Africa Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long read on Africa\u2019s <strong>rising cities<\/strong>, including Kinshasa (<strong>DRC<\/strong>) and Abidjan (<strong>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/interactive\/2021\/africa-cities\/?no_nav=true\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#CongoHoldUp: Investigation into plunder of DRC resources by ex-President Kabila\u2019s inner circle. The Continent (pp 11-15) BBC RFI Security-related protests in Burkina Faso: Following a deadly attack in Inata, opposition and civil society led demonstrations calling for President Kabor\u00e9\u2019s resignation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=2984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}