Eye on Africa

With lower than 22,000 circumstances declared for the reason that pandemic started and 133 deaths recorded, Ivory Coast appears comparatively spared from the pandemic in comparison with different international locations in Africa as effectively. However Côte d'Ivoire is becoming a member of the Covax initiative and can launch a large vaccination marketing campaign subsequent yr, which the federal…

The national electricity company Eskom continues to collect funds from companies suspected of corruption and irregular payments. Latest profit: EUR 85 million will be paid by the Zurich engineering group ABB. Eskom has become one of the symbols of corruption during the Jacob Zuma presidency, and hijackings in connection with the Gupta family have brought the company to its knees. Now the South African…

In a judgment issued on Friday, December 11, the judges of this UN tribunal, which was liable for resolving disputes between states, confirmed that France had not violated the Conference on Diplomatic Relations. This continuing, initiated by Malabo, is among the aspect points within the case of the unwell - established property of his son Teodorin Obiang. A case opened in 2009 following complaints from…

In South Africa, the national electricity company Eskom continues to collect money from companies suspected of corruption and irregular payments. Latest profit: EUR 85 million will be paid by Zurich's engineering group ABB Eskom has become one of the symbols of corruption during the presidency Jacob Zuma and embezzlement in connection with the Gupta family has brought the company to its knees, and the…

4.5 billion folks on the planet nonetheless don't have entry to protected sanitation. Nigeria is the second worst nation on the earth on this space: 23% of the inhabitants in probably the most populous nation in Africa - or 46 million folks, together with many youngsters - don't have entry to a sanitation system and are pressured to defecate open air, with severe well being dangers.…

International aid groups said on Friday that at least four workers had been killed in the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) said that its three employees who were killed last month had worked as guards at a project site. "Unfortunately, due to the lack of communication and ongoing insecurity in the region, it has not yet been possible to reach their families," it said. Separately, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said they were still working to confirm the…

The newest session of Libya's Political Dialogue Discussion board, led by the United Nations Help Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), ended with out a consensus. On the assembly, which was held through video convention, the principle focus was to succeed in an settlement on the manager mechanism's election mechanism within the war-torn nation. Chatting with the Anadolu Company (AA), Abdulkadir Huveyli, a member of Libya's prime minister and participant within the discussion board, stated that the UN mission…

Prudence Amoussou was shot and killed on May 2, 2019, when police suppressed a post-election demonstration. She was buried on December 2 in Abomey. For her, national and international organizations to protect human rights, the opposition demands the truth about the death of this mother of seven children. as reported from…

A county in southern Sudan might be ravenous and tens of hundreds of individuals in 5 different counties are ravenous, based on a brand new report by worldwide meals safety consultants. Nowhere on the planet has there been a famine because it was declared virtually 4 years in the past within the unitary state of South Sudan when the civil battle raged. Western Pibor County is now feared to have reached the extent of disaster, the results of large floods and lethal violence that has prevented entry to…

The government has announced that it has entered into a new agreement with its partners Arise and the French fund Meridiam for the construction and operation of a new container terminal in the autonomous port of Nouakchott. Prior to the arrival of the French fund, another agreement had been signed by the regime of former President Aziz 2018 with the company Arise, but this agreement had been classified…