Eye on Africa

Almost 6.5 million Burkinabè voters are known as to the polls this Sunday, November 22, for the primary spherical of presidential elections, a vote mixed with legislative elections. The 21,000 polling stations open from 06:00 to 18:00 A complete of 13 candidates for the presidential election and 10,000 for the deputy. These decisions happen in a context of uncertainty.…

At the moment, on the Ivory Coast, a younger girl is making a splash on social networks. These, higher identified by the nickname "Fay, the offbeat lawyer", supply Web customers weekly coaching periods to make them conscious of the legislation. Termination of tenancy, inheritance rights, divorce and even infidelity or sexual impotence inside marriage ... They're a number of thousand to observe his…

Ivorian football mourning day. On Saturday 21 November, Augustin Sidy Diallo was removed at the age of 61. He was infected with Covid-19.

On Sunday, Burkinabè will be called to the polls to elect both its new president and its new deputies. And even though there are only a few hours left before the ballot box opened, the capital Ouagadougou is keeping pace with recent preparations.

Russia on Friday stopped a UN Security Council committee from blacklisting a putschist general Khalifa Haftar-affiliated militia group and its leaders for human rights violations because they said they first wanted to see more evidence that they had killed civilians. The United States and Germany proposed that the Council of 15 members of the Libyan Sanctions Committee introduce a freezing and travel ban for the al-Kaniyat militia and its leader Mohammed al-Kani. Such a measure must be agreed by consensus, but Russia said…

Édouard Mendy was recruited at the end of September by Chelsea in Rennes and quickly won in the Blues cage. The goalkeeper continues the good performances and clean sheets (matches without conceding a goal) and banished the previous holder, Kepa Arrizabalaga, to the substitution bench. His coach, Frank Lampard, is completely happy with his Senegalese debut. Six years ago, Édouard Mendy vegetated at a national level in France, near Cherbourg. Today he is a member of one of the biggest clubs in Europe, is undefeated in…

Madagascar owns a video game tournament on the big screen for two days. From this Saturday 21 November until Sunday evening (17:00), this weekend's video games will be held in the capital Antananarivo, on giant screens in one of the only cinemas in the country. A first. It is a concept that attracts many confirmed players but also amateurs. On the Big Island, access to a personal game console is still rare for most households, associations and communities of players and e-sports are in full development. Pictures of…

KISMAYO, Somalia - In an effort to assist understand the conclusion of Somalia's agricultural improvement, Kenya Protection Forces troopers serving throughout the African Union mission in Somalia arrange demonstration farms to enhance their sharing of gardening information with the locals, particularly younger folks and girls Somalia, which has struggled with instability resulting from al-Shabaab's militant resurgence, is essentially a dry nation the place agriculture is hardly practiced. However the presence of…

Along with Covid-19, it's a new wave of grasshoppers that has hit the Horn of Africa for a number of weeks. Extraordinarily voracious, these grasshoppers have devoured hectares of crops within the area for over a yr and induced a serious meals disaster.

During the launch of the "10 days to sign" campaign, Amnesty International this year highlights the case of Germain Rukuki, a human rights activist in Burundi who was arrested in July 2017.