Eye on Africa

At the end of August 2020, Burundi and Tanzania signed an agreement that refugees will be able to return home, regardless of whether they want to or not before the end of the year. However, according to a Burundian NGO, about fifty of them were victims of serious violations and 170 others have been reported missing since 2015.…

The blatant trial of eight Lucha activists began on Monday before a military tribunal in Beni, northern Kivu. They were arrested last Saturday when the civic movement demanded demonstrations against the renewal of the mandate for the UN mission Monusco. According to police, they deliberately attacked a police station in revenge for the ban on their demonstration and attacked police. A version that…

The latest figures are worrying. “The last few weeks have notes Wakat Séra in Burkina, Covid-19 figures are experiencing a revival in the world and especially in Africa. The number of confirmed cases on the continent is just under 2.5 million, the African Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced the day before yesterday. South Africa, Morocco, Egypt and Ethiopia are currently the African countries most affected…

Assaults via armed teams in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province have pressured greater than 500,000 other folks to escape their houses, whereas practically half of of the internally displaced are youth, a UN company acknowledged on Monday. Whereas over 90% of IDPs reside with host households, lack of confidence in November remained "prevalent in some districts of the province of Cabo Delgado, with some inhabitants stream caused via lack of confidence and restricted get entry to to northern…

Within the Central African Republic, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, regardless of the violent assaults from the rebellion, would not need to put off the presidential and legislative elections scheduled for subsequent Sunday. He acknowledged it become a press convention in Bangui. Is it true that former President François Bozizé is at the back of the rebellion? Is it conceivable to vote subsequent Sunday in peace and openness at some stage in the rustic? Hans De Marie Heungoup, researcher on Central Africa on the…

Book Express, founded a year ago by a passionate reader, Alpha Ramazani, is one of the only bookstores in Kinshasa. But to allow readers in his hometown to also have access to the latest novels, the latest French-speaking essays or documents, he commutes between Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Kong and departs regularly at Kinshasa Airport, with suitcases folded with sweat in his forehead. Its…

An operation to combat arms trafficking networks taking place in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire led to the acquisition of tens of thousands of explosives, but also a large amount of dirty fuel, Interpol and the UN announced on Monday. The 260 men and women in the operation called KAFO deployed from November 30 to…

In Mali, the controversy over restrictions on freedoms, especially the press following the publication of a government statement on a state of emergency, seems to be subsiding. The Ministers of Communications and Territorial Administration met on Monday, December 21, the heads of press organizations who say they are calm today but are vigilant.…

In a letter to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), Boubacar Keita's lawyers say the son of the former president has been completely isolated in the family home for four months. The Council calls for this situation to end. as reported from Bamako, Serge DanielThe letter is signed by Me Djeneba Diop and Bakary Semega.…

In one month, Burkina Faso registered 2,000 new cases of Covid-19 contamination. A situation that worries the response committee, especially when the celebration of the end of the year comes. Ouagadougou, the capital, has only 1,000 positive cases and about 20 people are already in hospital. Health officials demand that barrier measures be followed to avoid saturation of health centers.…