Eye on Africa

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…

In Madagascar, paramedics are unhappy. They are still waiting to pay their requisition surcharges during the Covid-19 epidemic. For just over seven months, they were obliged by the state to fight the virus across the country. But none of the island's 7,265 nurses, nurses and midwives received these benefits, says the healthcare association, which has repeatedly challenged the Ministry of Health.…

In Algeria, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune appeared on public television this Sunday for the first time in almost two months. The head of state was in hospital in Germany at the end of October to be treated for coronavirus. The Algerian authorities have announced several times that he is about to return. But his long absence has continued to drive rumors of his possible death.…

At least 27 people were killed overnight from Saturday to Sunday, in the Toumour area, in the Diffa region, in south-eastern Niger. According to an official from the Bosso department to which this municipality belongs, this attack was carried out by the Boko Haram group. Early in the evening, nearly 70 armed men arrived in the…