Eye on Africa

Here is the list of the 11 participants in the Marc-Vivien Foé RFI / France 24 award for the 2020/2021 season, which awards the best African player in Ligue 1. The final trio will be selected by a committee of journalists and announced on 29 April. Nayef AGUERD (RENNAIS STADIUM / MOROCCO)Transferred last summer from Dijon to Rennes, who graduated from the Mohammed…

In Abidjan, the authorities announced on Tuesday, April 6, the new government led by Prime Minister Patrick Achi. The new government group now has 37 ministers. Ivorians therefore know Patrick Achis nya team. And it has several new features: Kandia Camara is thus appointed to foreign affairs, replacing Ally Coulibaly. Another Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense Téné Birahima Ouattara, the President's brother, confirmed in this post, where he had acted for a month, shortly before Hamed Bakayoko's death. Third Prime…

Over 1,800 prisoners dressed in Nigeria. They fled in an armed group attack on a prison in Owerri, in the state of Imo, in the southeastern part of the country. And for the authorities, it is the trail from Biafran's separatists that seems privileged. According to the Nigerian police chief, the attackers would be well "members…

South Africa has signed an agreement to buy 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech double-shot vaccine COVID-19, a senior government official said on Tuesday and increased plans to increase vaccinations this month. The deal is a boost for the country hardest hit by coronavirus infections in Africa, as it adds the 31 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's single shot vaccine that the government has already secured. The first batch from Pfizer is expected to arrive later in April, Anban Pillay, deputy…

The UN warned Tanzania to accept asylum seekers fleeing Mozambique from terrorist attacks. UN law has received "worrying" reports that Tanzania has rejected more than 1,000 people seeking refuge from a Daesh-alleged attack on a city in northern Mozambique, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. The March 24 attack on the city of Palma, next to the gas development worth $ 60 billion, sent the city's residents scattered in all directions, and some fled into dense…

The latest violence between rival tribes in this troubled region of Sudan has left at least 50 dead and more than 120 injured since Saturday, according to the Sudanese Medical Association. These clashes began on Saturday in El-Geneina, the capital of this state. They would have started, according to the UN, when a man shot at…

The opposition refuses to extend Patrice Talon's mandate following the change in the election calendar, which would allow the head of state to remain in office for another month and a half before the winner of Sunday's presidential election takes office. Patrice Talon has been in service for five years today. On Tuesday afternoon, regroupings are reported in Cotonou in Cadjèhoun, not far from former President Thomas Boni Yayi. When a group spreads, it goes elsewhere to reform. Red Star Square, where the tires were…

Just one day before the end of the 14-day ultimatum issued by the Kenyan Interior Ministry to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to draw up a roadmap for the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, which accommodate more than 400,000 people. Kenya's two largest refugee camps are now in danger of being closed by the government. Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps host at least 410,000 people from different countries including but not limited to Somali, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Axadle has introduced the President of the Galmadug State Abdi Kaliye alias Qoor-Qoor absent in the continued negotiations in Afisiyooni. Somalia will not be holding elections but, even after the top of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's time period on February 8, resulting in issues in regards to the nation's future. Farmajo is accused of being the stumbling block in the present election negotiations. On Tuesday, the talks had been additional delayed after the organizers didn't provide you with…

In Mali, according to the care staff, it is now older or in the risk zone that can be vaccinated since Tuesday 6 April. A little less than a week ago, on Wednesday, March 31, Malia's healthcare campaign began by vaccinating the first, then it was medical staff who could benefit from the first doses. From our special…