Eye on Africa

In Niger, the presidential election is in two weeks, on December 27. In accordance with the Primary Legislation, President Mahamadou Issoufou shouldn't be getting into a 3rd time period. Its candidate is Mohamed Bazoum, the previous Minister of the Inside. Within the opposition, Hama Amadou is excluded from the race as a result of resolution of the Constitutional Courtroom. However there are different…

The Deputy Secretary-General, Head of the UN Peacekeeping Operations, will begin a five-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on 14 December. Jean-Pierre Lacroix will make status with Monusco. as reported from New York, Carrie NootenIt was a visit planned for several weeks, postponed due to a quarantine by…

In Ghana, after the re-election of incumbent Nana Akufo-Addo, the opposition NDC party continues to challenge the election results. as reported from Accra, Marine JeanninAfter the battle with words, the dispute over numbers. In the aftermath of the announcement of his rival victory, incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo,…

According to her, military justice made this decision the day after the funeral of the former head of military intelligence who died in late February under circumstances that have not yet been clarified. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeA few days after her husband's funeral on Sunday, December 8, in…

South Africa is presently experiencing a second wave of coronavirus with greater than 8,000 new circumstances per day. A number of provinces are making ready to shut their seashores to stop the epidemic from spreading. And this whereas the summer time holidays have simply begun. South Africa is essentially the most affected nation on the African continent with greater than 850,000 registered…

Intense diplomatic exercise for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. After visiting his counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi final Thursday, he obtained one other neighbor, Sudan's Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, however who didn't keep so long as anticipated. as reported from Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-BodinThis assembly was…

It is this Monday, December 14, that Alassane Ouattara will be sworn in for a third term as head of Côte d'Ivoire. A ceremony will be held at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan where several African leaders will be announced. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre PintoThe ceremony is supposed to be "sober" - 300 guests alike - and…

French General François Lecointre returned on December 12 from a two-day inspection visit to Niger and Mali, his seventh visit to the Barkhane Force's Operational Theater. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces went to meet French soldiers and their partners from the Malian armed forces. The possibility of an overview of military operations one month before the anniversary of the Pau summit, 13 January, when a change in the format of French…

Like many African international locations, Burkina Faso is growing cutting-edge expertise within the house sector. Extra exactly when analyzing and utilizing satellite tv for pc photographs. Frédéric Ouattara is a physicist, he heads Norbert Zongo College in Koudougou the place he developed the Division of House Science: "What…

Northern Ethiopia has been hit by a number of pure disasters this yr. First, the worst 25-year-old grasshopper invasion destroyed a whole bunch of hundreds of hectares of crops and additional weakened meals safety within the Horn of Africa. One other damaging pure phenomenon is the report flood over the last wet season that displaced greater than 300,000 individuals within the nation. A brand new local…