East Africa

In Madagascar, as yearly in November, your entire port metropolis of Tamatave on the east coast vibrates to the rhythm of the lychee skirt. This week, town will stay its final - intense - days of this distinctive marketing campaign on this planet. If the fruit is to be on the tree till January, lychees are picked and ready for…

For the first time in South Sudan's history, a woman becomes chair of a university board (CA). Following a presidential decree circulating in state media, Awut Deng Acuil was appointed head of the board of Bahr El Ghazal University in the western country. This 57-year-old woman has been Minister of Education since February last year. Once again, her journey promotes gender equality in the country.…

No spectacular announcements about African debt at the G20 summit held practically this weekend. The countries in the south, and in particular Africa, were hoping for details after the G20 funding that had been held a week earlier. We talked about a new mechanism for debt restructuring in poor countries involving creditors like China. But obviously we have to wait for new messages.…

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army has warned residents of the city and prompted a UN…

FIFA's ethics commission suspended President Ahmad for five years, particularly for embezzlement. Arrived at the head of CAF 2017 to everyone's surprise, he will not be able to complete his mandate. Return to a sawtooth course at the helm of CAF. It is an eviction that marks the premature end of a chaotic mandate and a divorce…

Ethiopian federal forces surrounded the Tigray region's capital from about 50 kilometers (31 miles) on Monday, the government said, after giving the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) a 72-hour ultimatum to give up.

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army warned residents of the city and caused a UN…

Former Mauritanian head of state Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first democratically elected president in 2007 and overthrown by a coup the following year, died on the night of November 22 to 23 in a clinic in the capital, Nouakchott, of a long illness. A three-day national mourning has been observed since the morning of 23 November throughout the territory.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has as soon as once more accused the present administration of failing to reform the nation's judicial system, arguing that 1000's of residents are actually compelled to hunt justice in al-Shabaab courts throughout the nation. For greater than a decade, al-Shabaab has struggled to overthrow the delicate UN-backed Somalia administration, however their efforts have been hampered by army forces, significantly these from the US-African Union Command and…

The Fifa Ethics Commission suspended the current president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for five years and fined him 185,000 euros, especially for embezzlement. After 30 years of the Ayatouean presidency of the African Football Confederation, Ahmad was elected by the Madagascar to everyone's surprise in March…