Eye on Africa

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.

In Thiaroye, in a suburb of Dakar, fishermen returned from their voyage this week with pustules and pimples on their skin. The causes are not yet known, but the pollution trail is mainly advanced.

It is a new attempt at mediation in Ethiopia to end the conflict between the government and the dissident Tigray region. The latest attempt comes from Cyril Ramaphosa and the African Union. It has now been eighteen days since the clashes took place and caused the flight of more than 30,000 refugees in neighboring Sudan. The UN said on Friday, November 20, that it expects 200,000 in total. To end the fighting, many countries and international organizations have called for a ceasefire for two weeks. Calls are systematically…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Reconciliation amongst Somalia's main opposition leaders continues to construct after the newest apology from former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire to Wadajir chief Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame forward of a gathering scheduled for Saturday in Mogadishu. Since resigning in July, Khaire has confronted his former enemies with allies in what may very well be a method to construct a stable opposition alliance that can problem President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo within the upcoming polls, which, in…

On Sunday, almost 6.5 million voters are called to the polls for a double legislative and presidential election in Burkina Faso. In a country where more than 40% of the population is between 18 and 30 years old, youth voting can be important in the election of the next president. Meeting with their student voters on one of the capital's largest campuses, Ouaga 1.…

In a large meditation, yesterday, Friday, November 20, several Togolese personalities including parliamentarians but also personalities from ECOWAS and parents met to pay their last respects to André Kouassi Johnson. Committed activist, the third Vice-President of the National Assembly, founding member of the Union of the Forces of Change died suddenly after a short illness on 14 November 2020. A giant portrait of André Kouassi Johnson has been placed on the catafalque erected on the National Assembly's main courtyard.…