Eye on Africa

Two of the three civilians accused of theft, each amputated by a foot and a hand of suspected jihadists final weekend, close to town of Ansongo (north), arrived in Gao, the capital of the realm, on Monday to obtain hospital care. They're accused of robbing and robbing civilians touring within the north. as reported from Bamako,…

In Senegal, a sit-in of journalists, technicians and media executives was held on Monday, Could 3, in Dakar in entrance of the Ministry of Tradition and Communications. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracIn reference to the Worldwide Press Freedom Day, professionals within the sector warned of the assaults and unsurpassed…

Monday, Could 3, was World Press Freedom Day. On this event, an illustration was held within the 2nd arrondissement of Paris at the positioning Ghislaine Dupont - Claude Verlon - Camille Lepage. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, RFI journalists, had been killed in November 2013 in northern Mali. Photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed within the Central African Republic in 2014. A rally organized…

51 workers of Socotra, certainly one of the biggest freight transport firms in Côte d'Ivoire, have simply been laid off, or 20% of the corporate's workers (which has a whole of 251 workers). At the tip of March, the employees demanded the best to kind a commerce union inside the firm. They declare to have been rejected, main them to file a strike discover. The administration, which confirms these…

One third of Ghana's inhabitants is obese and one in ten Ghanaians is obese. By way of a wealthy food plan and sedentarization of life in city areas. Our correspondent in Accra,From the top of the morning, the streets of Accra are stuffed with the scent of the dishes we cook dinner: fried fish in stalls, sautéed plantain…

A professional-Gbagbo FPI delegation led by Assoa Adou was acquired on Monday by Inside and Safety Minister Vagondo Diomandé. A brand new assembly was supposed to organize the procedures for Laurent Gbagbo's return to Côte d'Ivoire. A return for which we nonetheless have no idea the date. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre…

In Chad, the composition of the transitional authorities was introduced on Sunday night time, virtually every week after the appointment of the Prime Minister and two weeks after former President Idriss Déby Itno. It was the President of the Transitional Navy Council and the Head of State, Mahamat Idriss Déby, who signed his decree appointing. Forty ministers, overwhelmingly linked to the late…

The founding father of the newspaper Jeune Afrique, Béchir Ben Yahmed, has handed away. He died on Monday morning, Might 3, in Paris on the age of 93. He had been in hospital because the finish of March, after receiving Covid-19. Franco-Tunisian Béchir Ben Yahmed had based the journal, which was to grow to be "YES" in 1960, the yr of many African independence.…

Following the RFI's revelations concerning the brutal strategies of the Russian "instructors" combating alongside the Central African Military and the human rights violations attributed to it, the Central African authorities responded with the voice of its spokesman and known as for the institution of a fee request. The Central…

Minni Minnawi, a former insurgent chief of the Sudan Liberation Military (SLA), was appointed governor of Darfur on Sunday (Might 2) by the Sudanese Prime Minister. He shall be the very best authorities official within the province nonetheless torn aside by violence. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethThe alternative…