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Added on the 28/01/2021 19:47:19 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Two weeks after leaving the governing majority, Senator Matteo Renzi arrives to speak with the Italian President on the ongoing political crisis. The prime minister resigned on Tuesday 26 January 2021 following a falling-out with a junior coalition partner that left him short of a majority in the Senate, the upper house of parliament. President Sergio Mattarella has been engaged in talks with party leaders to seek a way out. They are scheduled to run until Friday 29 January 2021. IMAGES
Venezuela's government delegation arrives in Barbados where it will restart talks with the country's opposition, seeking to end the country's political and economic crisis after a nearly year-long suspension. IMAGES
Angolan president, Joao Lourenco, hosts talks in Luanda to discuss the rising tensions in eastern DRC with their neighbours, Rwanda. Several heads of state can be seen arriving, including the President of Burundi and former president of Kenya. Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president was not in attendance, instead Vincent Biruta, minister for foreign affairs represented the country at the summit. Eastern DRC has witnessed fierce fighting in recent months between Congolese troops and the M23 rebel group, prompting the East African Community (EAC) bloc to deploy a joint regional force to quell the violence. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron inaugurates the very first of a series of offshore wind farms, off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), the deployment of which he intends to accelerate in the face of the energy crisis. IMAGES
Fuel tankers leave a depot in Grays, Essex, as the British army is set to begin delivering petrol to fuel stations after fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying and forced the government to offer visa waivers to foreign truckers to plug the shortfall. IMAGES