Eye on Africa

Al-Shabaab hit hard as army seizes key central Somali town MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali national army on Tuesday recaptured the town of Ba'adweyn from al-Shabaab militants, more than four months after the region was captured by the al-Qaida-linked group, which controls large swathes of rural central and southern parts of the country. Somalia. Al-Shabaab has used the strategic city to unleash…

The Cannes Film Festival, the largest film festival in the world, opened its doors on Tuesday night. The world of the 7th art is breathing again, after a canceled 2020 edition and the 2021 edition moved from May to July. We turn our spotlight on Africa's ambassadors. And this year, the continent is better represented than usual.…

Ethiopia: Amhara troops pledge to "resist" TPLF provocation NAIROBI, Kenya - Amhara regional forces will not engage in fighting with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray Regional President Agegnehu Teshager said, ending speculation that the two sides were engaging in violent clashes. Last week, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, also known as the Tigray Defense Forces…

France has just classified the DRC in "red" due to an "active circulation of coronavirus" as well as "the presence of a disturbing variant" in the country. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is the circulation of the Delta variant that is of particular concern to the French authorities. This decision by France imposes…

In Senegal, cases tested positive for Covid-19 are soaring with 121 new cases registered on Tuesday, July 6, a positivity rate of almost 10%. Authorities warn of "a third wave". During the last Council of Ministers, on Monday 5 July, the head of state demanded that the restrictions on the meetings be limited. The Ministry of Health still trusts vaccination to cope with the pandemic, but the doses are…

For the first time since her husband's return to Côte d'Ivoire on June 17, the former lady speaks in a video posted on her social networks. Simone Gbagbo welcomes this return and asks for further support for reconciliation. Without ever referring to the divorce proceedings initiated by the former president. It's a video of just…

A Uganda-made herbal COVID-19 drug called Covidex has become very popular and hardly at the same time in Uganda when it recently released the market after the authorities approved it after some previous confirmations of coronavirus that they had used it for treatment. Addressing the press in Monday in Kampala, pharmacologist Patrick Ogwang, who led a research group in the southwestern city of Mbarara that developed the drug, said that although their production rate was still low, most of what they have…

Ethiopia says it has begun the next phase of filling a controversial mega-dam on the Nile, Egyptian authorities said on Monday, raising tensions ahead of an upcoming UN Security Council on the issue. Egypt said the move was "a violation of international laws and standards governing projects built on the common basins of international rivers", and had expressed its "firm refusal to take this unilateral action", its Ministry of Irrigation said in a statement late Monday. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance…

The Somali military has killed 15 al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab terrorists in the central Galgaduud region, according to a statement issued on Sunday. An operation was carried out by Gorgor, the Somali special forces trained by Turkey, in the village of El Dhere, 15 kilometers south of Dhusamareb, the capital of the state of Galmuduug. In a brief statement on Twitter, the Somali army said dozens of al-Shabab terrorists were also injured in the operation. A large weapons cache was also seized during the…

Ethiopia's Somali region raises funds for victims of Tigray atrocities JIGJIGA, Ethiopia - Leaders from the Somali region of Ethiopia have launched a fundraiser aimed at raising funds for victims of atrocities in the Tigray region, as part of one of the latest humanitarian efforts to reduce loss of life possible due to hunger. In the past seven months, the Tigray region has been the scene of…