East Africa

Madagascar owns a video game tournament on the big screen for two days. From this Saturday 21 November until Sunday evening (17:00), this weekend's video games will be held in the capital Antananarivo, on giant screens in one of the only cinemas in the country. A first. It is a concept that attracts many confirmed players but also amateurs. On the Big Island, access to a personal game console is still rare for most households, associations and communities of players and e-sports are in full development. Pictures of…

KISMAYO, Somalia - In an effort to assist understand the conclusion of Somalia's agricultural improvement, Kenya Protection Forces troopers serving throughout the African Union mission in Somalia arrange demonstration farms to enhance their sharing of gardening information with the locals, particularly younger folks and girls Somalia, which has struggled with instability resulting from al-Shabaab's militant resurgence, is essentially a dry nation the place agriculture is hardly practiced. However the presence of…

Along with Covid-19, it's a new wave of grasshoppers that has hit the Horn of Africa for a number of weeks. Extraordinarily voracious, these grasshoppers have devoured hectares of crops within the area for over a yr and induced a serious meals disaster.

During the launch of the "10 days to sign" campaign, Amnesty International this year highlights the case of Germain Rukuki, a human rights activist in Burundi who was arrested in July 2017.

It is a new attempt at mediation in Ethiopia to end the conflict between the government and the dissident Tigray region. The latest attempt comes from Cyril Ramaphosa and the African Union. It has now been eighteen days since the clashes took place and caused the flight of more than 30,000 refugees in neighboring Sudan. The UN said on Friday, November 20, that it expects 200,000 in total. To end the fighting, many countries and international organizations have called for a ceasefire for two weeks. Calls are systematically…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Reconciliation amongst Somalia's main opposition leaders continues to construct after the newest apology from former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire to Wadajir chief Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame forward of a gathering scheduled for Saturday in Mogadishu. Since resigning in July, Khaire has confronted his former enemies with allies in what may very well be a method to construct a stable opposition alliance that can problem President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo within the upcoming polls, which, in…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - High opposition candidates within the upcoming Somalia election will from Saturday lead conversations about disagreements which have arisen in the way in which that elections are to be held within the nation with simply over a number of weeks till the beginning of the train. The crew has already rejected an inventory of members of the nomination committee accepted by Villa Somalia, claiming that almost all members had hyperlinks to the Nationwide Intelligence Safety Company , a requirement that…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Outgoing Somalia's International Minister Ahmed Awad has rejected an ambassadorial job provide from Villa Somalia, simply hours after he was fired by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble on Thursday in a transfer that has raised suspicion and political nervousness within the nation. On Thursday, Awad, a minister in President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's administration, was launched from his duties in what's believed to be the confusion over the continuing Ethiopian disaster within the Tigray…

In Madagascar, we are seeing an increase in the prices of basic necessities. During two weeks, in the markets of the capital, but also in the provinces, the kilo of different rice varieties, a commodity that forms the basis of the Malagasy diet, has increased from 200 to 400 ariary. Oil and sugar prices are also rising. An increase that worries Malagasy households, which have already been hit hard by the economic and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the Analakely market in the center of the Malagasy…

Since the beginning of the conflict in Tigray, the possible involvement of Eritrea, the country bordering the Ethiopian province, has often been mentioned. But what do we know about the situation on the Eritrean front? The Ethiopian army operates freely from Eritrean territory with the support of the authorities in Asmara. If…