Eye on Africa

Joseph Kitangala Kibala was arrested for the second time last Friday on the basis of a complaint from the head of the industry promotion fund Patrice Kitebi. He was released in December last year, after 18 months in prison, for bringing charges against the same leader. In question: a radio program and two letters from Joseph Kitangala Kibala addressed to the Ministers of Justice and the Minister of Industry to request that the investigations against the former Minister be restarted. Joseph Kitangala Kibala presents…

A joint visit by the AU, the UN, represented by the Deputy Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, ECCAS and the EU is currently under way. On Wednesday, representatives met with both the president of the National Assembly and religious leaders. At the heart of the discussions: the peace process, two years after the Khartoum Treaty and five months after the attack on the…

Abdelmajid Tebboune embarked on a lengthy interview published Thursday morning by the French newspaper Le Point. The Algerian president returned to business a few months ago after a long recovery in Germany. Questioned by Algerian historians and journalists Kamel Daoud and Adlène Meddi, President Tebboune returned to many questions from his presidency, especially Algeria's external relations with the…

For Hakim El Karoui, assistant researcher at the Montaigne Institute, the European Union must integrate the Maghreb countries into its recovery plan in order to avoid an economic crisis with catastrophic consequences. For researcher Hakim El Karoui, “what we do not see is that today we are intertwined with the Maghreb. And in a…

If African fashion is currently having great success around the world, Pathé'O and all the young African designers they have supported in recent years point out that the road to this success has not always been easy. From our correspondent in Abidjan,Hidden in one of hundreds of alleys in the working-class district of…

An agent for National Education was fired after a controversy over a white bac topic on homosexuality. Last year students from the Academy of Rufisque, near Dakar, worked last week on a text by the American author Armistead Maupin, himself an LGBT rights activist. The choice of this topic has caused controversy in a country where homosexuality is oppressed. Homosexual rights activists are concerned…

This is his first trip outside France. Jean Castex is in Tunis. The French Prime Minister will attend the third Franco-Tunisian High Cooperation Council on Thursday. Together with six ministers, the head of government wants to strengthen ties between the two countries in the light of the health and economic crisis. With our…

Journalists start "disinformation laboratory" to limit the spread of fake news in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - The extent of fake news in Somalia could drop drastically following the launch of the "disinformation laboratory" aimed at revealing inaccurate news, especially at a time when the country is heading for an election that could define the country's fate. During the weekend, a media guard…

Sudan has begun a review of an agreement to build a Russian naval base after certain clauses proved "slightly harmful", a military official said. For decades, Sudan has been militarily dependent on Russia for crippling sanctions imposed by Washington against the now-ousted President Omar al-Bashir. But since he crashed in 2019, Sudan has moved closer to the United States, removing Khartoum from its crippling blacklist last year. "This deal was signed under the previous National Salvation Government,"…

The African Union (AU) announced that it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatening the poor country with sanctions after a second military coup in nine months. The coup has raised deep concerns about stability in the volatile Sahel region and warnings of financial sanctions from the entire international community. The AU "decides ... to immediately suspend the Republic of Mali from participating in all activities of the African Union, its bodies and institutions, until the normal…