Eye on Africa

This Tuesday, June 22, the Minister of Human Rights visited Fabrice Puela Tshisuku at the Kasaïcentralen. A ceremony was held for the handing over of ten bodies, ten victims who had been extracted from a mass grave for justice and medical needs. legal investigations. These bodies were installed in a mausoleum built in memory of the massacre. It was at the time of the uprising for the followers of the ordinary leader Kamuina Nsapu. At 2 p.m., an unknown number of soldiers from a 2101 FARDC regiment opened fire on…

Will Africans be able to travel to Europe this summer? At present, in any case, most people are still unable to travel to France and most EU countries, despite the reopening of borders. Only vaccines that have already been approved by the European Medicines Agency are currently accepted on "passsanitaire" of the 27. The Covishield vaccine is not one of them and this clarification has triggered…

Guillaume Soro was sentenced to life in prison by Abidjan's criminal court. The former president of the National Assembly and 19 of his relatives were charged in particular with trying to undermine state authority and conspiracy, spread false news and disrupt public order. 14 defendants were in the box. The others, including Guillaume Soro, were tried in absentia. The court followed the prosecutor's…

The summer market for football transfer opened in early June and ends in late August, in most major European leagues. Some African players seem particularly coveted during this transfer window. Here are seven. Patson Daka (Zambia)The author of two fantastic seasons with Red Bull Salzburg arouses the striker a lot of envy,…

An airstrike hit a bustling market in Ethiopia's northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday, according to health workers who said soldiers were blocking medical teams from traveling to the site. Dozens of people were killed, they and a former resident said, referring to witnesses. Two doctors and a nurse in Tigray's regional capital, Mekele, told The Associated Press (AP) they could not confirm how many people were killed, but a doctor said on-site medical staff reported "more than 80 civilian…

Sudanese Prime Minister Hamdok warns of cracks in army, calls for unity Khartoum, Sudan - Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said the cracks in the military were "deeply worrying" as he called for reconciliation between civilians and factions in the military interested in the country's politics. The prime minister, who took over after the military expelled Omar al-Bashir in 2019, made the…

In New York, the UN Secretary - General's report on the Central African Republic will be presented to the Security Council on Wednesday morning, 23 June. He makes an overview of the situation in the country, a still "uncertain" security context. Although progress has been made. Antonio Guterres notes positively the…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society welcomes the government's decision not to renew the operating license of Israeli businessman Dan Gertler for two oil blocks in Ituri. The one we nicknamed Joseph Kabila's friend questions this decision and evokes force majeure to explain why certain parts of the production…

When the world powers met in Berlin on Wednesday to seek lasting peace in Libya by ensuring that the conflict-torn North African country stays steady on the road to general elections on December 24, Turkey is represented by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu under the motto "Libya belongs to the Libyans." Representatives of Libya's caretaker government joined US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of France, Turkey and Egypt in UN-sponsored talks. While Russian Foreign Minister…

Heavy fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray state as Prime Minister Abiy shines the spotlight NAIROBI, Kenya - Bitter fighting erupted on Monday and part of Tuesday in Ethiopia's Tigray region, even as the country went to the polls, which was after all boycotted by the main opposition leaders, who blame Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of severity. Monday's fighting involved the Ethiopian National Defense…