Eye on Africa

The long-time president of Djibouti, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, has launched his re-election marketing campaign within the run-up to nationwide elections on 9 April. Apart from Zakaria Ismael Jafar, an “anti-system” unbiased candidate, Guelleh is ready to run for his fifth time period unopposed. His challengers within the 2016 election have all referred to as for a boycott of the poll. The indisputable fact that Guelleh is comfortably settling into his third decade in workplace hints on the state of affairs on this…

Although declared a "priority of priorities" in the early 1980s, agriculture did not allow Congo to be self-sufficient and restrict food imports. The authorities now want to intensify this agriculture in order to diversify the economy of the country, which is struggling to minimize its dependence on oil revenues. From our…

In South Africa, when rhinos are poached, their children are abandoned too young to survive on their own. That is why there is a center in the province of Limpopo, in the north of the country, to collect them, the time when they become independent and can be released into the reserve. From our special correspondent in…

On Tuesday, April 6, the country's new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, considered it "not good" to ignore the importance of the pandemic. She spoke at the inauguration ceremony for members of her new government in Dar es Salaam. ►Samia Suluhu Hassana took the country's reins in March, after the sudden death of John Magufuli.…

The tripartite meeting on the Great Lady of the Renaissance (GERD) ended on Tuesday, April 6 in Kinshasa. Scheduled for two days, it lasted for three days without the Ethiopian, Sudanese and Egyptian delegates reaching an agreement. Félix Tshisekedi hoped to unleash a new dynamic through this meeting to reach a consensus plan. This meeting should also lead to the setting of the goals and frequency of…

Following the trip of several Home and Foreign Ministers and the Head of the European Council last week to Tripoli, the Italian and Greek Prime Ministers paid an official visit to Libya on Tuesday 6 April. They discussed economic and security issues as well as their bilateral cooperation with the new Libyan leadership. This double visit is further proof of Europe's great interest in the political rise…

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday, April 6, validated the election of Denis Sassou-Nguesso in the vote on March 21. He received 88.40% of the votes instead of 88.57% of the votes, according to the preliminary results which the court modified somewhat after rejecting the appeals against the annulment of three opponents. as…

Resumption today of the trial of the bombing of Bouaké. On November 6, 2004, 10 people were killed in the attack on the French military camp in the Licorne force by two Soukhoï planes piloted by Russian mercenaries and their Ivorian co-pilots. The court began investigating one of the gray areas of this act: the arrest of suspects in Togo, which will finally be released because France, warned, is not…

Here is the list of the 11 participants in the Marc-Vivien Foé RFI / France 24 award for the 2020/2021 season, which awards the best African player in Ligue 1. The final trio will be selected by a committee of journalists and announced on 29 April. Nayef AGUERD (RENNAIS STADIUM / MOROCCO)Transferred last summer from Dijon to Rennes, who graduated from the Mohammed…

In Abidjan, the authorities announced on Tuesday, April 6, the new government led by Prime Minister Patrick Achi. The new government group now has 37 ministers. Ivorians therefore know Patrick Achis nya team. And it has several new features: Kandia Camara is thus appointed to foreign affairs, replacing Ally Coulibaly. Another Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense Téné Birahima Ouattara, the President's brother, confirmed in this post, where he had acted for a month, shortly before Hamed Bakayoko's death. Third Prime…