Israeli Army: 50,000 reservists recalled before the assault on Gaza City

An Israeli army official said Wednesday that the country is recalling 50,000 reservists before launching its offensive on Gaza City. The forces involved in this assault on the main urban center of the Palestinian enclave will consist mainly of active soldiers

Mobilization orders could be sent in the coming days for conscription in September, the official told Rfi journalists on condition of anonymity.

"Most of the troops that will be mobilized in this new phase will be active and not reservists,” he stressed.

FBI: three Ghanaians arrested and extradited to the United States

Romance scams on the internet are becoming more and more common. Three extradited Ghanaians are going to be tried in the United States, after a long investigation by the FBI. They are accused of a large-scale online romance scam and of stealing $100 million between 2016 and 2023. At the head of a huge international network of what are commonly called grazers, these people arrested in Ghana seduced Westerners online, especially in the United States and Europe, to extort money from them

The three Ghanaian men are between 36 and 40 and were at the head of a network, calling themselves “the presidents” and calling the victims “customers.” On social networks, they changed their identity to seduce lonely, vulnerable and often elderly people who were not familiar with new digital technologies. To get money from them. They operated through a vast network of intermediary scammers that allowed them to launder money and made them

Financial management in Mali: Choguel Maïga placed under arrest warrant for “harming public goods”

Choguel Kokalla Maïga, former civilian prime minister of Mali, dismissed in November was indicted on Tuesday 19 August for “harming public property” and placed under arrest warrant.

“A politician should expect everything, including prison and death” reacted former Prime Minister Choguel Maïga after the decision of the Investigative Chamber of the Supreme Court to place him under arrest warrant.

Presumed innocent, the ex-prime minister disputes the facts. Some of its supporters even speak of “settling scores.” Audits carried out in January 2025 accused Choguel Maïga of financial embezzlement, which he has always denied

UN: alert on the rise in murders of humanitarian workers

Threatened, underfunded, sometimes targeted, humanitarians are more and more vulnerable. While Tuesday, August 19, marked World Humanitarian Day, the UN recalled an alarming figure: 383 humanitarians were killed in 2024, most of them local employees. In Nigeria, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is warning of the increase in insecurity, the multiple hotbeds of crises and the plummeting funding that complicate humanitarian action

In addition to their exposure to dangerous situations, the conditions of humanitarian workers are sharply worsening with the drop in donations, decided in particular by Washington. Here, an employee looks after a child and her mother in Maiduguri, in the Nigerian state of Borno, on July 19

“It is urgent to protect humanitarian workers”, warns Mohamed Malick Fall, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria. On Tuesday, August 19, on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, he recalled the growing threats to those who save lives: “We still have Boko Haram raging in the North-East and armed groups in the North-West that are increasing kidnappings for ransom. All this complicates the access of humanitarian workers to populations.

IN A NUTSHELL

More than 1,100 deaths are attributed to the heatwave that hit Spain from 3 to 18 August, according to estimates by the Carlos III Institute for Public Health Research. The MoMo (Mortality Monitoring) system, which records the number of deaths in Spain on a daily basis and compares these figures to the expected mortality based on historical series, recorded 1,149

Cristiano Ronaldo received a hero's welcome on Tuesday in Hong Kong, during a match for his Saudi team Al-Nassr, unlike his big rival, Lionel Messi, who became public enemy number one last year for not playing a gala match.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will travel to Jackson Hole starting Thursday to participate in the American Federal Reserve's annual conference in Wyoming, the Japanese central bank announced Wednesday.