Eye on Africa

In Tambacounda, a city 500 kilometers east of the Senegalese capital, the Dakar-Bamako train has not run since 2018. In April last year, the Minister of Transport announced that traffic would resume in December 2021 to Tambacounda, failing to rehabilitate rails to Mali. A promise that the people were waiting for while the train brought life to the whole region which was more isolated.…

This Wednesday, Senegal recalled the June 23, 2011 movement. This popular protest movement that had led then-President Abdoulaye Wade to abandon its constitutional reform project. It is a crucial moment in the country's political history. This anniversary is celebrated in the division with two separate events in Dakar. as…

In Mali, the five Christians who were kidnapped were released on Monday morning, Wednesday 23 June. Until now, we had no news from Ségué's parish priest, near Mopti, and the four believers who had taken him to San, the Ségou region, to attend a funeral. They had never reached their destination. Their abduction was not claimed,…

The UN envoy to the Central African Republic on Wednesday accused the country's security forces and their Russian allies of several human rights violations. The Central African Republic's closer relationship with Moscow dates back to 2018, when Russia sent "instructors" to help train its besieged armed forces and supplied small arms and were relieved of the UN arms embargo. One of the world's poorest countries, the Central African Republic, has been chronically unstable since gaining independence from France in 1960.…

Former Mauritanian President Mohmamed Ould Abdel Aziza was arrested on Tuesday and detained in Nouakchott. He was indicted on March 12 for corruption, embezzlement of public property and money laundering during his presidency between 2008 and 2019. He is not the only former African leader facing justice. Overview. What gives…

A second conference on Libya was held again on Wednesday in Berlin, 18 months after the previous one, with some twenty countries and international organizations, including the transitional government, in place since the spring in Tripoli. Two goals were on the menu, the election scheduled for the end of December and the withdrawal of foreign forces. In this second file, progress has been announced.…

The Islamic State group claims in a press release the attack that targeted the night of June 11 to the President of the National Assembly. A small-scale attack: two men on motorcycles had shot at the guards in front of the building before unsuccessfully trying to steal a vehicle by fleeing. But a deadly attack - one of the guards had been killed - the first for the Islamic State group in the Nigerian…

Prime Minister Roble summons state leaders ahead of Somalia election MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has called all state leaders for a meeting scheduled for June 27, as the country continues to prepare for elections, which are expected to take place next month in all states. Elections in Somalia were delayed after the government failed to hold universal suffrage…

This Tuesday, June 22, the Minister of Human Rights visited Fabrice Puela Tshisuku at the Kasaïcentralen. A ceremony was held for the handing over of ten bodies, ten victims who had been extracted from a mass grave for justice and medical needs. legal investigations. These bodies were installed in a mausoleum built in memory of the massacre. It was at the time of the uprising for the followers of the ordinary leader Kamuina Nsapu. At 2 p.m., an unknown number of soldiers from a 2101 FARDC regiment opened fire on…

Will Africans be able to travel to Europe this summer? At present, in any case, most people are still unable to travel to France and most EU countries, despite the reopening of borders. Only vaccines that have already been approved by the European Medicines Agency are currently accepted on "passsanitaire" of the 27. The Covishield vaccine is not one of them and this clarification has triggered…