East Africa

Between the 2018-2019 season and today, the cultivated areas have 10,000 hectares. South Africa is a very small producer country on an African and even regional scale, behind Zimbabwe and Zambia. So if its surface area thereby decreases, what future for the sector? From our correspondent in Johannesburg,The harvest is taking…

The conflict in the northern part of the country has been going on since November. By the end of three weeks, the federal government had declared victory, but the fighting continued. Leaders of the TPLF's former power are still free and its armed wing, the TDF (Tigray Defense Force), continues to confront the Ethiopian and Eritrean federal forces in Tigray. Meeting with a TDF cell.…

Chinese Ambassador to leave Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - Qin Jian, the Chinese ambassador to Somalia, will leave the country after years of service, which saw him expand relations between Mogadishu and Beijing, with economic prosperity as one of his great successes in the Horn of Africa. Although there is a lot of Turkish and Qatar presence in Somalia, the Chinese have gradually broken into the…

The Nyiragongo volcano, near Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, no longer seems threatening. Volcanologist Benoît Smets looks back on this eruption that surprised everyone, even though we knew this volcano could erupt one day or another The lava flow has ceased just before you arrive in the city. Last night,…

BAIDOA, Somalia - Ethiopia's National Defense Forces gathered in several parts of the southwest and raised flags before the planned battle with Al-Shabaab militants, who still control large parts of the countryside in central and southern Somalia, as the military works hard to liberate many cities. ENDF troops are key security stakeholders in the Horn of Africa and have been associated with the liberation of key areas, which were once under the linked al-Qaeda group that controls internal parts of the country. The…

The Nyiragongo volcano, which erupted on Saturday 22 May around 19:00, is now standing still and the city of Goma, panicking last night, has so far been saved. Many Congolese who fled their homes, as far as Rwanda, return home. According to the military governor of the region, five people lost their lives. Throughout the…

Three days before May 26, the new head of state's traditional investment day, political tensions are mounting as a new president should have taken office. However, Head of State Azali Assoumani, who has been in office since 2016, was able to fight for his own legacy and was re-elected in 2019, following a constitutional amendment in 2018.…

The body of a Somali businessman was found days after the disappearance in Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya - A Somali-American engineering sum has been found dead, about ten days after his abduction, in what may be the most heinous murder in Kenya's history, given the nature and circumstances that led to his death. Bashir Mohammed disappeared about ten days ago from some leafy suburbs of Nairobi, but…

Somalia's army increases pressure on al-Shabaab ahead of elections MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Somali National Army continued an attack on al-Shabaab militants on Saturday, this time targeting the Hiraan region of central Somalia, where the militants have controlled without impunity. On Saturday morning, state media said at least six al-Shabaab soldiers were killed and several others injured…

AMISOM trains civil protection police in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia - A contingent of Somali police officers has been trained in established guidelines that protect civilians in line with their tasks, as the AMISOM team strives to restore order and stability in the Horn of Africa. The exercise allowed at least 25 police officers, mainly from the Sierra Leone police unit and the FPU, to benefit…