Eye on Africa

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, while arms continue to speak on the high and medium-sized plateaus of Fizi, Uvira and Mwenga in the province of South Kivu, a dialogue began on Monday, March 29, in Kinshasa between the conflict communities, Babembe, Babuyi, Bafuliru, Banyamulenge, Banyindu, Barundi and Bavira. This work, which was hosted by the head of President Felix Tshisekedi's civilian house, is led by the central government in collaboration with NGO Interpeace, which specializes in conflict resolution. Several…

A senior Comorian official is worried about a sexual assault case. The former ambassador to the Comoros in Paris and chief of staff of several foreign ministers was fired from his post as diplomatic adviser on Monday, March 29, after being heard by the gendarmerie for sexually abusing a trainee at the ministry. The case caused an uproar in the archipelago where sexual harassment is extremely taboo, especially in the public sector. Abdallah Mirghane went free Monday morning to the Gendarmerie Research Brigade to be heard…

The first day of negotiations is Monday, March 29, in Paris during the Bouaké bombing. On November 6, 2004, two Ivorian army aircraft landed on a French base in this city in Côte d'Ivoire, killing 10 and wounding 38. The aircraft was piloted by Belarusian mercenaries and aided by Ivorian co-pilots. This day was devoted to the call of witnesses, the reminder of the facts and the first hearings.…

Carriages and horse-drawn carriages are still widely used in rural Senegal, but also in urban areas, for the transport of goods. The government will resume the application of an inter-ministerial decree from the end of 2016, but which has never been implemented. It prescribes "technical visits" for carriages and horse-drawn carriages or even "health visits" for horses.…

The investment of the elected Nigerian President, Mohamed Bazoum, will be held on Friday, April 2. The failed candidate, Mahamane Ousmane, continues to reject the result of the second round of the February 21 presidential election. On Monday, March 29, the leader of the opposition party RDR-Tchanji announced a new legal measure and called on his supporters to demonstrate peacefully from Tuesday.…

Three of the ten presidential candidates in Chad on April 11, who officially withdrew from the electoral process, but were held in the course of the country's highest court, have their names and photos in place on the by-elections handed out to the party. Opponent Saleh Kebzabo, one of these "candidates in spite of himself", as they are called, has launched a bizarre campaign in Mayo-Kebbi East…

Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD), an allied party fighting for the late opponent Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas, appealed to the Constitutional Court on Monday, March 29, to cancel the March 21 presidential election, the preliminary results of which were won by President Denis Sassou. Nguesso who has collected 36 years in the country's head. "Our appeal has been approved by the court. Now we are waiting for what the judges will decide in the coming days, says Jean-Jacques Serge Yhombi Opango, leader of RDD who…

Nearly nine years after the burial of Timbuktu's tombs and five years after their reconstruction, the inhabitants have regained their religious treasures, inseparable from the very identity of "333 holy cities." From our special correspondent in Timbuktu, A few steps from Djingareyber's large mosque, the gates to a cemetery. On the sandy ground, sober sign shows the places of the graves. In the middle, three mausoleums of light stone rise by about two meters. Alpha Ibrahim Ben Essayouti, Deputy Imam of…

In Burkina Faso, Apollinaire Compaoré, the president of the employer, is he involved in smuggling to finance terrorist groups? In any case, this is the conclusion of five journalists from four countries, including Burkina Faso, after an investigation as part of the reporting project on organized crime and corruption. According…

The Islamic State group claims responsibility for the attack on Palma, in the province of Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. An attack that, according to the authorities in Maputo, would have killed dozens of people and caused the flight of thousands of refugees since Wednesday. The jihadist organization that the Mozambican Islamist group Ansar al-Sunna has joined claims that he "controls the coastal city", a few kilometers from the French Total gas mega project, a project that has been suspended again since…