Eye on Africa

First day of national consultations promised by President Felix Tshisekedi. On Monday, November 2, the head of state of the Democratic Republic of Congo received personalities involved in the election process. Institutions that support democracy, civil society, religious beliefs ... With our correspondents in Kinshasa, Sonia…

Gunmen executed 32 individuals and torched greater than 20 homes in a raid on an space in western Ethiopia, a regional administrator mentioned on Monday. The killings had been carried out on Sunday by an armed group referred to as OLF Shane within the western Wollega zone within the Oromiya area, administrator Elias Umeta advised Reuters. "We buried 32 of them as we speak. About 700 to 750 individuals had been additionally pushed away from the realm," he mentioned. OLF Shane cut up from the Oromo…

Inter-ethnic violence reaches a new level in Ethiopia. On Sunday, November 1, a massacre claimed the lives of at least 54 people in the western part of the country.

In Senegal, the opposition joined the government thanks to the change announced on Sunday, November 1st. A switch announcing a recomposition of the Senegalese opposition. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idrac"At least it has the benefit of clarifying the debate, to see who is with Macky Sall and who is not," launches a PDS…

Two days after the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire, the Ivorian opposition on Monday night time introduced the creation of a Nationwide Transitional Council. It's FPI candidate Pascal Affi N'Guessan who confirmed it on behalf of the opposition. This council will chair Henri Konan Bédié. .

In Tanzania, the opposition called for massive and peaceful protests on Monday, November 2, following the re-election of President Magufuli. She shouts for massive fraud and condemns the multiple arrests in her ranks. This Monday, repression continues. Tundu Lissu, the biggest opponent and failed presidential candidate, was arrested again this afternoon. According to his lawyer, he was taken to the central police station. Earlier today, Chadema party leader Freeman Mbowe was arrested along with two other officials.…

The Electoral Commission will on Monday announce the preliminary official results of the presidential election on October 31. After several violent incidents and the political statements from the government and the opposition, fears of seeing the situation become more and more tense. Several observation missions are already delivering their conclusions on the vote on Saturday.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Al-Shabaab militants carried out a collection of assaults over the weekend within the southwest in rising circumstances of insecurity throughout the nation regardless of a non secular effort to dismantle the group that controls massive components of central and southern Somalia within the countryside. Al-Shabaab swore allegiance to Al-Qaeda in 2010, and since then the group has managed to hold out a number of lethal assaults each in Somalia and throughout the border. Kenya is without doubt one of the…

In reminiscence of our two colleagues from RFI, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, assassinated on November 2, 2013 in Mali, the UN has set November 2 because the Worldwide Day to Finish Impunity for Crimes Towards Journalists. A theme that's present in a rustic like Cameroon, the place this 12 months was marked by the announcement in June final 12 months of the demise of journalist Samuel Wazizi.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somaliland must be left to elect its personal voting committee with out the oversight of Somalia's federal authorities, Senate President Abdi Hashi has stated, including that any interference will compromise the end result of the upcoming election. In a letter dated November 1, 2020, Senate Chief President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble informed them to chorus from appointing them to run the election on behalf of Somaliland, a area claiming to have withdrawn…