Eye on Africa

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 during an official visit to France, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta discussed the biggest challenges facing him. Asked about the fight against terrorism, the Kenyan leader denied that the US military has sought permission to carry out drone strikes inside Kenya. He stressed that if such a request was made, he would reject it. Kenyatta also addressed the Covid-19 pandemic, Kenya's economic development, as well as an attempt to dissolve parliament due to gender inequality. In an…

QOHA, Qatar - The state of Qatar on Thursday expressed its strong condemnation and condemnation of an explosion aimed at a security checkpoint in the capital Mogadishu that killed two people and injured others. In a statement today, the Foreign Ministry renewed Qatar's firm stance on rejecting violence and terrorism for whatever reasons and motives. The statement expressed condolences from the state of Qatar to the families of the victims, the government and the people of Somalia, as they wanted the wounded to…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A top al-Shabaab intelligence chief was killed on Wednesday in a special operation carried out by US-trained Danab forces, several military sources confirmed in the latest significant battle against the al-Qaeda-linked group that controls large parts of rural southern and central Somalia. Since March this year, the Somali National Army has contingents with the help of AU forces and those of the US Africa Command have fought with the militants, leading to massive gains across the country, the…

In Kenya, the Kemsa affair has been causing unrest for several weeks. Millions of dollars have reportedly been diverted from their purpose within the state body responsible for medical supplies. This Wednesday, new revelations before the Senate question its officials a little more. Appointed in July, the new Auditor General is already in the front line in the scandal at the moment in Kenya. According to Nancy Gathungu's report, corruption within Kemsa has swallowed more than $ 21 million intended for the fight against…

After six months of closure to limit the spread of coronavirus, South Africa is beginning to reopen its borders. A decision that only concerns international flights in relation to countries considered to be low risk. This is the first international flight to land at Johannesburg Airport in six months. This Thursday, October 1,…

The Kenyan head of state is accompanied by five of his ministers for this visit dedicated to economic cooperation. He attended the conference of the Public Investment Bank, the institution responsible for promoting French companies abroad, along with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Thursday morning. The two heads of state took the opportunity to discuss the economic opportunities that bind them, despite the global health crisis. And it was a rather determined Uhuru Kenyatta who appeared on the conference stage.…

Nigeria became independent from Britain on October 1, 1960, and today has Africa's largest economy. FRANCE 24's Nicolas Germain looks at how the newly independent state was soon entangled in a devastating civil war in the eastern Biafra region that would claim nearly two million lives. Africa's most populous nation became…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A female suicide bomber killed a senior intelligence official after blowing herself up in Mogadishu early Thursday, a police officer said in an attack attributed to al-Shabaab jihadists. The woman detonated a bomb strapped to her waist at the Black Sea Crossing aimed at commonly dressed agents working for the National Intelligence and Security Agency and killed the secret unit commander. Giant smoke birds rippled from the area as ambulances rushed the injured to a nearby hospital for medical…

This report documents the responsibility of the Security Forces to suppress demonstrations against constitutional reforms. Movements that have killed at least 50 people a year, according to Amnesty International, which shows a number of killings of protesters and arbitrary arrests. This study focuses in particular on the demonstrations that took place in March last year, on the sidelines of the legislative and referendum polls in March last year. According to Amnesty, defense and security forces used firearms illegally in…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The race to expand the democratization space in Somalia was markedly strengthened on Wednesday following the recent launch of a political party that would allow people to express their wishes and interests as planned in the country's interim constitution. Somalia has struggled to install discipline in its key institutions for three decades after Siad Barre's ouster, but recent developments give at least a glimmer of hope to a country also bedeviled with clan clashes and the Al-Shabaab threat. .…