FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Exiled former leader Gbagbo to return to Ivory Coast June 17 – Eye on Africa” – below is their description.
In tonight’s edition: Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo is set to return home after ten years in exile. The decision to go home came after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Tensions remain high between Chad and the Central African Republic after six Chadian soldiers were shot on the country’s southern border. And South Africa returns to harsher lockdown measures, this after a sharp rise in cases of Covid19.
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In This Story: Central African Republic
The Central African Republic, or Centrafrique, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest and Cameroon to the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi) and had an estimated population of around 4.7 million as of 2018.
As of 2020, the CAR is the scene of a civil war, ongoing since 2012.
In This Story: Chad
Chad, officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in north-central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the south-west, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west.
The capital N’Djamena is the largest city. Chad’s official languages are Arabic and French. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (51.8%) and Christianity (44.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad.
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