Eye on Africa

The day after the publication of the results of the presidential election that won the first round of the outgoing head of state Patrice Talon, the interior minister attributes the murderous violence to "certain political actors". He accuses them of having planned a comprehensive destabilization plan that has been thwarted. In…

A landmine explosion left at least ten people dead and more others wounded in Somalia on Wednesday. April 14- 2021. According to local security officials, Reports from Bal’ad town in Middle Shabelle region say {that a} bus traveling from Mogadishu to Jowhar town was hit by a landmine near Gololey village in Bal’ad district. “We have confirmed that 10 people died and four others were wounded after a minibus traveling along the road between Mogadishu and Balcad ran over a landmine,” said Abdikarim Mohamed, a government…

Somalia's president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known by his nickname Farmajo, has signed a law extending his mandate for another two years, as the United States and its allies threaten Mogadishu with sanctions if the move creates further instability in the country. The deviation extends a month-long election crisis after the national vote in February was delayed. Critics say Mohamed's time in office is over. The international community had opposed an extension of the mandate and warned that the…

In the midst of pressure to quit, Farmajo is taking on bigger European and American cities NAIROBI, Kenya - In the coming weeks, pro-establishment supporters from the federal government in Somalia could lead protests in major European cities and in the United States, Axadlehas learned what is said to be a choreographic step to question the "interference" of the country's internal…

The territorial conflict between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea is once again in the spotlight. These two Central African countries have contested the sovereignty of three islands since the 1970s. Following the failure of a UN mediation, Libreville and Malabo had agreed to resort to the International Court of Justice to resolve this dispute.…

In Sudan, in less than ten days and according to a report by the UN refugee agency, inter-municipal clashes have left 144 victims and more than 200 injured in El-Geneina in the Darfur region. The flight for almost 2000 refugees in nearby Chad. .

Greece and Libya have agreed to hold talks on marking their marine zones in the eastern Mediterranean, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday after a meeting with Libyan President Mohammad Younes Menfi. In a statement after the meeting, Mitsotakis said the two leaders "agreed to resume immediate talks between Greece and Libya on the demarcation of marine zones." Libya's new unity government took office on March 16, succeeding two warring authorities that had ruled eastern and…

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Adolphe Muzito and Martin Fayulu, two leaders of the Lamuka political platform, agree on one point, in support of the request for an international tribunal for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They said so in a statement on Tuesday, April 13 in Kinshasa. The Lamuka faction, which…

A Somali defense official threatens to take over Mogadishu Airport MOGADISHU, Somalia - A senior Somali defense official has threatened to take over Aden Abdulle International Airport, commonly known as Mogadishu Airport, and has rejected the decision of the House of Commons to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's reign. The lower house quickly extended Farmajo's mandate amid…

The United Nations Population Fund publishes "State of the World Population 2021" on Wednesday 14 April. With the title this year My body belongs to me, and the report is devoted for the first time to the power and freedom that women have at their disposal over their bodies, without coercion or violence, in different parts of the world, and especially in Africa.…