Eye on Africa

Salaam Somali Bank provides free microfinance to traders in Mogadishu MOGADISHU, Somalia - Salaam Somali Bank branch in Madino, Mogadishu provided free microfinance to small business owners on Thursday as part of the 2021 offer. Qardu Hasan is part of Salaam Somali Bank's annual free microfinance fund with the aim of developing and effectively improving small businesses across the…

The Comoros football team qualified for the African Cup of Nations for the first time in its history on March 25, 2021. The Comoros won the points they needed by making it 0-0 against Togo, in Group G in the qualifiers for CAN 2021. The match between the Comoros and Togo does not go down in the annals of football, but it will…

In Senegal, local elections have been postponed again. This was registered in the Council of Ministers on Wednesday 25 March. The municipalities and departments should in principle be held before 28 March. This is the third launch and no new date has been set. as reported from Dakar, Charlotte idracIt was expected, so it's…

Authorities have arrested a man after he boarded an empty Mauritania Airlines plane that was on the tarmac at Nouakchott International Airport and threatened to set it on fire, the government agency reported on Thursday. There were no passengers on board at the time of the incident and it was not immediately clear how the man managed to break into airport security, according to an airport official who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to…

Madagascar loses a great artist and a radio pioneer. Wednesday morning in Antananarivo, Sammy Rabenirainy died in hospital as a result of Covid-19. He was 66 years old. Violinist, lyricist, he was one of the leading figures in the mythical group "Lôlô sy ny tariny". During the day, testimonies of sympathy flowed online. Big brother Sammy Rabenirainy is gone. And with that, a large part of DNA: ti Lôlô sew new tariny. This Tananarivian group, the forerunner of popular and protest texts, had emerged in the mid-1970s in the…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The UN humanitarian agency said on Wednesday attacks on aid workers providing humanitarian supplies in Somalia resulted in the deaths of 15 aid workers by 2020. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 12 workers were injured, 24 abducted and 14 arrested in 2020, with 56 incidents involving aid workers reported. "In a single tragic incident, seven health workers were abducted and subsequently murdered. Several cases of confiscation of humanitarian supplies,…

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Italy were in Tripoli to meet their Libyan counterpart on Thursday in a demonstration in support of the war-torn country's newly formed unity government. The joint visit of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Germany's Heiko Maas and Italy's Luigi Di Maio comes ten days after the formation of an interim government to lead Libya to the December elections. Oil-rich Libya sank into chaos after dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 NATO uprising,…

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is also investigating crimes and atrocities committed in the province of Tigray. After months of silence, she admits in a report that more than 100 people were massacred in the city of Aksum, which validated the investigations from other organizations such as Amnesty International. The late announcement of the Ethiopian report on human rights in the middle of the night is not due to chance; the time was calculated only hours later Abiy Ahmed's long speech. The prime minister…

Trade unions are demanding pay rises, housing, generalization of the chalk bonus (teachers who give lessons in class) and remote allowances. More than 2,000 teachers and teachers responded to their unions' call to make their voices heard on the day the government held its weekly Council of Ministers meeting. The gathering of professors a few hundred meters from the presidential palace came on the third day of a strike that began on Monday to demand a pay rise. In the crowd, this union leader, a member of the Coordination…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) has renewed the recruitment of members who jumped from the terrorist group Al-Shabaab to bring them into the country's security and military forces. Abdisalam Guled, who served as deputy head of the Somali intelligence service NISA, said Al-Shabaab had infiltrated the bodies of the Somali security agencies under the attention of the international community. "A new Al-Shabaab egg is hatched every day in the security forces," said Guled, who recently brought…