Eye on Africa

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, armed groups, hitherto unidentified, killed at least 50 civilians during the night from Sunday to Monday, May 31, according to a still preliminary report from the Kivu Security Barometer. The attack took place in two villages in the territory of Irumu, in the province of Ituri, north of the border with Kivu. An attack of unprecedented scale. The attackers also…

Mali is still awaiting the announcement of the appointment of its new Prime Minister. More than a week after the arrest of Colonel Assimi Goïtade's military, former president and transitional minister, the country remains uncertain. French President Emmanuel Macron has threatened to withdraw French troops involved in the fight against terrorism if Mali gives in to the "temptation of radical Islam".…

His followers have been waiting for his return home for several months. Definitely acquitted in March last year by the ICC, Laurent Gbagbo returned to Abidjan on June 17, FPI-GOR announced on Monday. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre PintoIn the village hall, which is decorated as the wedding days, 400 personalities from FPI,…

After almost 15 months without flights between France and Algeria, Air Algérie will reopen its flight connection between Paris and Algiers on Tuesday 1 June. Currently, Algerians in France have to make do with two flights a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. A partial reopening that frustrates members of the community, sometimes deprived of seeing their families for over a year and a half.…

Our airspace is still locked for Somalia, Kenya insists NAIROBI, Kenya - It will take a little longer before Kenya finally opens the airspace for Somalia, Nairobi has said, in the latest directive which could further affect the relationship between the two countries that have been in conflict for several months now. Even after diplomatic ties between the two nations were restored less than a…

In Senegal, calm returned on Monday morning, May 31, in Casamance in the south of the country. Yesterday, the army carried out airstrikes in an area west of Cassolole, near the border with Guinea-Bissau. They targeted parts of the MFDC's separatist movement. This sweep is in line with the army's operations in the region in January and February.…

Fatou Bensouda met with authorities and representatives of communities that are victims of the genocide. The Gambian lawyer is close to ending her term, but she continues to urge the transitional government to hand over to her suspects accused by the ICC of crimes committed in Darfur. With our regional correspondent in Nairobi,…

A Koran school in the state of Niger in the north-central part of the country was attacked by armed men on Sunday, May 30, 2021. The school accommodates more than 200 students and no results are yet known. According to a statement from the local police, armed men arrived on motorcycles and attacked the Salihu Tanko Koranic…

Incidents at the border between Chad and Central Africa could turn into a diplomatic crisis. The Chadian Foreign Minister issued a statement on Sunday, May 30 to Monday, May 31, 2021, accusing the Central African Armed Forces of attacking an outpost of the army in a "predetermined and planned" manner. . Ndjamena talks about a…

The preliminary results of the elections on 23 May 2021 in the Central African Republic were announced on Sunday evening in the Central African Republic by the National Election Authority. A total of 50 places were at stake. President Touadéra's party is consolidating its relative majority, but is still far from an absolute majority.…