Objectif Monde L'hebdo

Bloody palm trees

In 2023, a company signs a contract to exploit land considered ancestral by local communities in Kisangani in the remote province of Tshopo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Exploitation led to conflict between Mboles and Lengolas, resulting in over 700 deaths and tens of thousands of displaced people.

Guests: Simon Rodier, TV5MONDE journalist; Stéphanie Perazzone, professor at the University of Glasgow, researcher at the University of Geneva, specialist in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Presented by: Dominique Laresche

Coke in dock

Le Havre, France's leading container port, is the main entry point for cocaine into France. Fourteen tonnes were seized in 2024. To get the drugs out, criminal organisations rely on accomplices, often dockworkers. Unpublished testimony from the family of one of them, Allan Affagard, who was murdered in 2020.

Guests: Romain Boutilly, journalist with France Télévisions; Fabrice Rizzoli, specialist in serious crime, chairman of the Crim'HALT association

Presented by: Dominique Laresche