Eye on Africa

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army has warned residents of the city and prompted a UN…

The Election Commission interrupts the publication of the provisional results that are common to the municipality, as it began to do since Monday at This decision was taken after a statement by the seven candidates who signed the opposition's political agreement that had issued a statement warning Ceni. They also expressed "very strong reservations about the sincerity and credibility of these results"…

FIFA's ethics commission suspended President Ahmad for five years, particularly for embezzlement. Arrived at the head of CAF 2017 to everyone's surprise, he will not be able to complete his mandate. Return to a sawtooth course at the helm of CAF. It is an eviction that marks the premature end of a chaotic mandate and a divorce…

In Mali, the Collectif des associations de jeunes du pays dogon (CAJPD), which brings together forty organizations, is launching a large food operation. The operation is called "Bol lèi", two bowls, in the Dogon language. Dogon country, an area in central Mali in the Mopti region, has been the scene of years of jihadist…

Burkina Faso is now awaiting the results of the two elections, the legislative and presidential elections, which were held in the country this Sunday, November 22. After the bill, it is now time to compile. Work carried out in 368 municipal centers across the country. Report to the common center of the town hall Ouaga 1 in the center of the capital.…

In the Central African Republic, the deadline is fast approaching. And if all actors are active in organizing the presidential and legislative elections, civil society, for its part, is also preparing through education like those in Minusca. She wants to be ready to play her role in this second election since the 2013 crisis.…

Ethiopian federal forces surrounded the Tigray region's capital from about 50 kilometers (31 miles) on Monday, the government said, after giving the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) a 72-hour ultimatum to give up.

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army warned residents of the city and caused a UN…

Former Mauritanian head of state Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first democratically elected president in 2007 and overthrown by a coup the following year, died on the night of November 22 to 23 in a clinic in the capital, Nouakchott, of a long illness. A three-day national mourning has been observed since the morning of 23 November throughout the territory.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has as soon as once more accused the present administration of failing to reform the nation's judicial system, arguing that 1000's of residents are actually compelled to hunt justice in al-Shabaab courts throughout the nation. For greater than a decade, al-Shabaab has struggled to overthrow the delicate UN-backed Somalia administration, however their efforts have been hampered by army forces, significantly these from the US-African Union Command and…