Eye on Africa

On June 5, 1981, the first identified cases of AIDS occurred in the United States. Two years later, in 1983, South Africa also discovered the first two cases on its land. Today, it is the country with the most HIV-positive people in the world, with 7.5 million cases. One third of these people with AIDS do not take antiretroviral treatment, which is free and available to everyone in South Africa. Main…

ADDIS ABEBA - The Ethiopian Federal Government has identified a number of Ethiopian national defense forces top soldiers directly linked to ongoing crimes against humanity in the Tigray region, following pressure from members of the international community. For the past eight months, ENDF soldiers, along with those from Eritrea and the Amhara regional forces, have been camping in the Tigray region, where they have unleashed the Tigray People's Liberation Front. . However, reports show that the troops have also killed…

In Burkina Faso, the "Go Paga" project (in front of women) was officially launched on Friday, June 4, in Ouagadougou, a project to support women whose husbands died in combat, in the fight against terrorism. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya BoudaniFollowing a pilot phase during which about ten women benefited from training and…

On May 20, you organized a virtual round table serving on employment, territories and local development in Senegal, discussions that you believe showed the potential for economic transformation of regions that can become a reality when local elected representatives have a vision., A strong commitment and ability to mobilize resources in service of their projects.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The US Africa Command has released the fifth civilian accident report on the Al-Shabaab war, which was presented for the first time in 2020, following complaints that the army sometimes targeted civilians in the raids on Al-Shabaab militants. The US military has been directly involved in the fight against the Somali-based militants who have wreaked havoc on innocent civilians, members of security forces and even senior government officials in the country. The latest report for the period ending…

KDF condemned for killing innocent civilians in Somalia's airstrikes MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia has once again accused Kenya of the Armed Forces to carry out airstrikes in the Gedo region against civilians under the pretext of fighting extremists, in particular the Al-Shabaab group, which controls large parts of the countryside in central and southern Somalia. In a press release from the…

Famine is imminent in Ethiopia's war - torn Tigray region and the north of the country, which means hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of death, the UN's humanitarian chief warned on Friday. Mark Lowcock said that the economy has been destroyed along with companies, crops and farms and that there are no banking or telecommunications services. "We are already hearing about starvation-related deaths," he said in a statement. "People need to wake up," Lowcock said. "The international community…

A shocking video has appeared on social media since June 4. We see a young woman being raped by several men. It is indignation in Ndjamena that links this video to an ongoing legal investigation: the alleged gang rape of Meram, 15, by three sons of high-ranking officials. These images make Chadians react more specifically because it is not the first video of its kind circulating on social networks.…

In an open letter to Kristalina Georgiva, Executive Director of the IMF, 19 women, political and civil society figures in Cameroon ask the financial institution not to grant a new loan to the state without all the transparency and openness. so-called "Covidgate" cases. A report by the Supreme Court of Cameroon, dated March last…

The military auditor of the armed forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo handed over the new investigation into the murder eleven years ago by the human rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana Edadi, both suffocating in the generals. police inspection in Kinshasa. Since the beginning of the year, RFI has collected new testimonies that give an accurate picture of the events on the same…