Eye on Africa

In a choice adopted on Friday, December 4, the UN Safety Council determined to take away Burundi from its political agenda. A choice that comes shortly after the Burundian authorities' refusal to increase the workplaces of the UN Particular Envoy. The choice was introduced on Friday, December 4, in an announcement from the…

The regional elections will take place on Sunday, December 6, in Cameroon, but the population is not particularly worried about the vote. Especially because it is the big voters who are called to vote and not the general population, who rather think about organizing this year's celebration in a difficult economic context. With…

Colonel Malick Diaw, number two in the junta in Mali who ruled the country after the coup on August 18, was elected head of the National Transitional Council (CNT) on Saturday. This council, which has 121 seats and brings together political parties, representatives of civil society, trade unions and the military, met in Bamako for its inaugural session.…

Café Cacao Council launched an offensive earlier this week in opposition to two large chocolate makers, accusing them of failing to pay a particular premium supposed to higher pay cocoa-producing farmers. Hershey is claimed to have undertaken to pay this premium. That is a bonus, the First rate Revenue Distinction (DRD), which…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Ministry of Training has apologized for a mistake in Type 4 Geography textbooks that mislead the general public in regards to the measurement of the nation's shoreline, which is among the many largest on the earth for the nations that share the resource-rich coastal strip of the Indian Ocean. Somalia's shoreline stretches from close to Kismayo to the south all the way in which previous Bosaso and together with the disputed Somaliland territory. It's dwelling to seaports in, amongst others,…

HARGEISA, Somalia - The northern breakaway area of Somaliland has urged taking the chance following the US announcement of plans to withdraw troops from troubled Somalia and urges Washington to contemplate depleting its pursuits in Hargeisa, which is comparatively extra peaceable than Mogadishu. Somaliland claims to have withdrawn from Somalia after their frosty relationship, which led to 1991 after practically three many years of cooperation. The 2 had united after gaining independence from Britain and Italy,…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Salaam Somali Financial institution's department in Suq Ba'advert, Mogadishu, on Saturday supplied native entrepreneurs with free microfinance as a part of the annual non-profit funding program generally known as "Qardu Hassan". The annual fund is geared toward creating and inspiring small companies all through Somalia, in line with the financial institution's administration, which is credited with being the primary within the nation to start out in 2009. Merchants, together with women and men,…

The Central African Republic is establishing a hemodialysis heart and a medical imaging heart specifically geared up with a scanner. A improbable first for the nation which might thus enhance the care of the sick. as reported from Bangui, Charlotte cossetDialysis, scanners, mammography, dental panoramas ... The hospital heart…

US President Donald Trump has ordered the removing of most US army and safety personnel from Somalia, the place they've carried out operations in opposition to al-Shabab's militant group, the Pentagon stated on Friday. Trump "has ordered the Division of Protection and the U.S. Command to relocate the vast majority of Somalia's personnel and belongings in early 2021," the assertion stated. The Division of Protection pressured that america "doesn't withdraw or disconnect from Africa", amid issues a…

In Niger, a new step was taken this week in the so-called "Uraniumgate" deal. An investigation was launched this year in France and ROTAB, the network of organizations for transparency and budget analysis, has just become a civil party. The financial scandal says about "uraniumgateExploded in 2017. This is a transaction that…