Eye on Africa

The UN agency says it may be necessary to cut food rations for Somalia GENEVA - The World Food Program warns that it may be forced to cut food rations in June for more than a million vulnerable Somalis because they do not have enough money to sustain the operation.This would be a severe blow to vulnerable people in Somalia who are just coming from similar cuts to their daily food…

IGAD member states strongly urged to increase resource allocation All eight Member States of the Intergovernmental Development Agency are called upon to increase the allocation of resources to disaster risk management. The IGAD 12th Steering Committee and 7th General Assembly, held in Mombasa, were also asked to step up cooperation efforts that will protect people vulnerable to…

Congo-Brazzaville has been led for almost 37 years by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who is seeking a new presidential mandate tomorrow, Sunday 21 March. He will face six other candidates, including two former ministers, Mathias Dzon and Brice Parfait Kolélas. On the eve of this presidential election, FIDH and its Congolese partner, OCHD, say they are "deeply" concerned about the "deterioration of the democratic…

Eight children were injured when a shell hit a residential area in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, according to local health authorities on Saturday. In a statement, Al-Jalal Hospital in Benghazi said the children, aged between seven and 16, sustained moderate and critical injuries in the attack that took place on Friday in the city's Zamzam district. The statement did not specify the group behind the attack. Benghazi is controlled by militias affiliated with Putist General Khalifa Haftar. On…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Farmajo requires a gathering throughout vote after vote. Outgoing Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has called for an urgent meeting with federal heads of state in the latest attempt to agree on a joint election process. In a statement from Villa Somalia, Farmajo said he called on the conference to discuss pending controversial issues surrounding the country's much - delayed parliamentary and presidential elections. The president's office said the two-day talks, which open on March 22 in…

Several marches took place this Saturday, March 20, in various neighborhoods in N'djamena. Political parties and civil society associations had called for demonstrations against President Marshal Idriss Déby Itno's sixth term. The demonstrations were banned by the authorities, who implemented an impressive security system in several neighborhoods in the Chadian capital. About forty people were…

Academic and African media specialist Marie-Soleil Frère died on the night of 18 to 19 March. Research director, she taught journalism at the Free University of Brussels, as she did at the University of Ouagadougou. Author of several books, she focused in particular on the role of the media in the political development of French-speaking Africa.…

Since the first cases of Covid-19 appeared in the country in March 2020, young Burkinabè have transposed expressions linked to the pandemic into their daily lives. They had to develop a kind of resistance to a disease that had no vaccine and whose name alone sowed fear. Let us go to the discovery of these terms "covid", that is, linked to Covid-19.…

Congo-Brazzaville elects its new president on Sunday, March 21st. As a whole, the young people representing the majority of the population are waiting for the newly elected representative to create more jobs for them because unemployment has reached worrying proportions in this country with nearly five million inhabitants full of wealth including oil.…

In Ghana, an English-speaking country in West Africa surrounded by French-speaking neighbors, the population speaks more than 80 languages. But among these, French practice remains marginal. as reported from Accra, Marine JeanninIn the Nima market, a popular district in the heart of the capital, people speak Hausa, Twi or…