Eye on Africa

After a week of confinement, the security device that was deployed around the opponent's Cellou Dalein Diallo's home was lifted on Wednesday, October 28th. The measure had been requested by the joint UN - AU - ECOWAS mission at the end of its stay in Conakry. Second in the presidential election on October 18 with 33.5% of the vote, according to Ceni, Cellou Dalein Diallo continues to dispute these…

Announced at the end of last year that Eco, which is to replace the CFA franc from 2020, will eventually have to wait. Apart from the requirement that certain civil society organizations and certain economists demand the disappearance of the CFA franc, current users of this currency rarely speak on a daily basis. "Does our…

In Ivory Coast, the presidential election is scheduled for Saturday, October 31st. Yesterday, presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara declared on RFI and France 24 that the vote would take place. Today, opposition platform spokesman Pascal Affi N'Guessan says there will be no election. Former Prime Minister Laurent Gbagbo is interviewed by Christophe Boisbouvier of RFI and Marc Perelman of France 24.…

On Tuesday, the UN Safety Council (UN Safety Council) ratified the firearms hammered out of Libya's fighters on October 23 and known as on each events to "implement the settlement in its entirety." The declaration will quickly be adopted by a UN decision, diplomatic sources say. "Members of the Safety Council welcomed the everlasting ceasefire settlement" signed in Geneva underneath the auspices of the United Nations and known as on "the Libyan events to adjust to their commitments." The Safety…

Initiated by former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the great mosque in Algiers, whose construction was completed a year and a half ago, is to be consecrated on October 28 with a collective prayer on the eve of Mawlid's celebration celebrating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is expected to lead the inauguration if his health permits. He has been hospitalized since…

In Mali, October 28 was the second day of the trial against the alleged perpetrators of the Bamako attacks in 2015, which killed 30 people, at the Terrace bar restaurant and at the Radisson Blu hotel. This new day opened with the hearings of the two defendants. The main suspect, the Mauritanian Fawaz Ould Ahmed, aka "Ibrahim 10", who for almost two hours detailed the operations he performed, showed no remorse. At the stand, Fawaz Ould Ahmed, surrounded by his two lawyers in front of the anti-terrorism assistants, had most…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somaliland court docket has ordered the deportation of a preferred star on social media following a video he launched, taking tea from a cup embellished with the picture of the Somali flag resulting in his arrest and serving for 2 months in jail in Hargeisa. For nearly 30 years, Somaliland has run a parallel authorities from the Somali authorities following her choice to withdraw from higher Somalia, however the area shouldn't be but totally acknowledged regardless of a religious effort for…

In Tanzania, 29 million voters will be called to the polls on October 28. The country holds presidential, legislative and local elections. The vote takes place in a tense context following violence on Tuesday in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region that voted one day in advance. The opposition accuses the police of killing a dozen people who protested against attempted fraud. Police denied having shot anyone. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien Nemeth In Tanzania, fifteen candidates are vying for the presidency,…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Kenyan citizen was amongst these sentenced to demise by a military courtroom docket in Somalia, it has emerged, even as a result of the Horn of Africa continues to battle violent extremism, which has wreaked havoc inside the nation for over three a very long time. Aden Mohamed, 28, born in Wajir, Kenya, stopping for ISIS subsidiary in Somalia since 2017, established the courtroom docket, leading to his conviction at a military courtroom docket in Northeastern State. He labored with the group for…

Work on the second inclusive national forum responsible for evaluating the new constitution, which has been in place since 2018, opens on 29 October. Over the course of three days, participants will evaluate the basic text that sanctifies, among other things, the abolition of the post of Prime Minister and the introduction of a Confession of Confession. These decisions are contested by a large section…