Eye on Africa

A commission was set up to challenge its boss, Jules Alingete. According to that commission, he was wrong to say that people accused of mismanagement had sought refuge in Parliament in order to take advantage of Parliament's immunity. Correspondence should be addressed to the President of the Republic to authorize the House of Lords to question the Inspector General.…

Al-Shabaab rejects COVID-19 vaccines citing its 'ineffective and unfavorable' side effects MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab militants have dismissed the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was recently developed in the fight against the coronavirus, arguing that it is "harmful" and therefore cannot be used by its members as a preventative dose. . Coronavirus has…

UN experts said they had received and continue to receive reports of "serious violations of human rights" by Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic (CAR), where they have supported the militant government's military. "The experts have received, and continue to receive, reports of serious human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, which can be attributed to the private military personnel working with CAR's armed forces and in some cases to the UN. peacekeepers,…

The UN Security Council wants Somali leaders to fix a dead end "as soon as possible" NEW YORK -Somalia's leaders must use the "earliest opportunity" to break the deadlock in the country, the UN Security Council has said and added that a solution must be found to the model and nature of future elections. For several months now, the AP reports that stakeholders from all areas,…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a report released on Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to set up a "monitoring component" to operate in and around Libya's Sirte province and compliment the Libyan-led mechanisms to monitor the ceasefire. In the report presented to the Security Council, Guterres did not say how many UN observers would be needed for the UN mission, known as the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). "I call on the Security Council to give UNSMIL a clear but flexible…

A year ago, more than 80 human rights and press organizations signed a petition calling on several African presidents to release journalists in overcrowded prisons whose prisoners are often exposed to Covid 19. The Cameroon Committee to Protect Journalists. (CPJ) restarts President Paul Biya. One year after this appeal, the…

Forces in western Libya on Wednesday released more than 100 detainees who had been captured during fighting under Putin general Khalifa Haftar, in a conciliatory gesture following the latest agreements, officials said. The fighters were liberated in the coastal city of Zawiya during a televised ceremony attended by senior officials of the newly appointed transitional government. The men fought for the 107th Brigade under the leadership of Haftar. Mohammad Younes Menfi, head of the presidential…

GARISA, Kenya | About eight years ago, Abdul Haji, then 38, was presented not only in Kenya but across the globe for what many considered heroic acts, after a picture of him rescuing innocent women and men in the Westgate Mall, where Al- Shabaab had attacked. Armed with his rifle, Haji, whose father Yusuf Haji was then the senator of Garissa, was depicted by rescuing dozens of people, but it is the footage of him holding children and women that puts him on the global map and even gets president Uhuru Kenyatta to give him…

This Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the ICC Board of Appeal reaffirmed the decision to acquit war crimes and crimes against humanity in favor of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé. What impact will this court decision have on their political projects? How in Côte d'Ivoire will the former president be organized? To talk about it, Bineta Diagne receives Habiba Touré, Laurent Gbagbo's personal lawyer. .

The UN expert group on mercenaries is sounding the alarm about serious "human rights violations" that can be attributed to Russian paramilitaries in the Central African Republic, and experts condemn the authorities' increased use of private security companies in Bangui, which has been the target of a new uprising since December. They also deplore the "close contacts" that the Central African Army and in…