Eye on Africa

In Uganda, the financial penalties of the brand new partial containment that started this weekend are already being felt by a few of the inhabitants. Since Saturday 19 June and for a interval of 42 days, all transport, public or non-public, is forbidden, locations of worship are closed and the curfew modified to 19:00 as an alternative of 21:00 Amongst essentially the most affected is bike taxi or "boda…

The project to promote integrated management and the economy for solid waste (Promoged) was officially launched on Thursday 24 June in Mbeubeuss, a giant landfill in the city of Malika, on the outskirts of Dakar. as reported from Dakar,Charlotte idracIt is an open dump at the gate to Dakar: the Mbeubeuss website, which opened in…

The government and the trade unions have reached an agreement on one of the requirements in the paragraphs, the one that is considered to be the most important, namely the payment of the risk premium to all agents in the health sector who do not have one. . as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeAccording to the…

Every year, the country loses about 247,000 hectares of forest. A very worrying situation according to the Ministry of the Environment that requires a change in behavior. In connection with the international tree fair that is currently taking place in Ouagadougou, specialists explain to the population the various techniques for preserving nature.…

In this small West African country, a research group has found traces of a wild coffee that is believed to have disappeared since the early 1960s. in recent years through global warming. "We have been walking for two good hours now, on foot in the Kambui hills, and there we approach the garden to the wild stone shelf ...". Not…

Congolese military officers are said to have blown up the troops under their command to make money. Three of them are the subject of legal proceedings in Ituri because of these practices. as reported from Kinshasa, Kamanda wa Kamanda MuzembeAccording to the military prosecutor in Ituri province, three senior officials were…

Former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday by Abidjan's criminal court for "undermining state authority", "conspiracy" and "spreading false information". The other defendants received sentences ranging from 17 months to 20 years in prison. At the end of the hearing in Abidjan, Me Raoul…

US seizes 33 Iranian websites used for disinformation WASHINGTON - In a campaign to spread disinformation and misinform the public, the United States has seized at least 33 websites used by Tehran to discredit truth-seeking efforts around the world. The two countries have been embroiled in online and offline wars, which have often escalated into unpleasant exchanges, including the murder last…

In Chad, the twelve Russian and Lithuanian citizens, who are presented as tourists and arrested in the north of the country by the Chadian authorities, are now free to leave the country. They were arrested in the Chadian Sahara on June 13 and released after an investigation. They are twelve, eleven Russians, including two…

NAIROBI, Kenya - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray fighters otherwise known as the Tigray Defense Forces shot down an Ethiopian military plane on Wednesday, a senior official confirmed, which could spark further tensions in Ethiopia's troubled Tigray region. Over the past eight months, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces with Eritrean assistance, troops conducted operations in the Tigray region in pursuit of TPLF fighters. The conflict was sparked by the TPLF's decision to attack the Northern Command.…