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Regional reporting and analysis from across Africa, covering diplomacy, security, politics, business, and major developments shaping the continent.

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Eye on Africa

Regional reporting and analysis from across Africa, covering diplomacy, security, politics, business, and major developments shaping the continent.

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the younger Saïd Chetouane accuses the police of

The Algerian League for Human Rights, the Algerian National Committee for Detainees Imprisoned, Amnesty International demands that full light be shed on the sexual violence that Saïd Chetouane, a 15-year-old minor, is subjected to at a police station in Algiers. , last Saturday. Similar acts of torture are increasing against young Hirak militants.…

Lots of of stranded fish and dolphins

Lots of fish as well as dead dolphins have been reported in recent days off the Ghanaian coast. An investigation is underway to determine the causes of this accident, unparalleled in this English-speaking West African country. A team of experts from the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture went to the website. The locations of fish and dolphins, in the hundreds, stretched for miles of coastline. Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo has never seen so many. Co-founder of the local NGO Plastic Punch, which aims to combat plastic…

the government declare that they regain regulate

Almost two weeks after the attack on the port city of Palma by the armed group calling itself Al-Chabab, the Mozambican authorities confirmed on Monday, April 5, to gradually regain control of the situation. "It is not over yet (...) but a significant number of terrorists have been shot," the commander of military operations in…

greater than 1,800 prisoners fled after the assault

More than 1,800 prisoners escaped from a prison in southeastern Nigeria over Sunday to Monday following an attack by armed men, the attack has not been claimed, but the suspicion turns to Ipob, the independence group from Biafra, established in the region of Imo, where this attack took place. The Nigerian police chief said…

Tribal conflicts in Sudan’s Darfur area depart 50

Arab and non-Arab tribes clashed in Sudan's dormant western Darfur region over the weekend, leaving at least 50 dead with more than 130 injured, a local medical committee said on Monday, adding to the list of incidents in the troubled region since the signing of a peace deal at the end. of last year and the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers. The violence between the Arab Rizeigat tribe and Masalit in Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur province, followed the deaths of two people from Masalit, said…

Tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur area depart 18

Arab and non-Arab tribes collided in Sudan's rest in the western Darfur region over the weekend, leaving at least 18 dead with more than 50 injured, a local medical committee said Monday, adding to the list of incidents in the troubled region since the signing of a peace deal at the end. of last year and the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers. The violence between the Arab Rizeigat tribe and Masalit in Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur province, followed the deaths of two people from Masalit,…

Malta will resume embassy in Libya, restart flights

Malta will resume its embassy in Libya and restart flights to the North African country, said Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela on Monday. Malta is the latest EU member to strengthen ties with Tripoli, as Libya seeks to end a decade of chaos following a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. "We will reopen our embassy and consulate in Libya in the next few days," Abela told a news conference in Tripoli, standing alongside Libyan caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. "Flight links will also be…

President Tebboune is just not able for the rest

I will not give up the issue of national memory, but I will never make this memory a business. It is a memory between two peoples and two countries. We are moving forward step by step. But I understand what the French President said. He said that what happened in Algeria (at the time of colonization) goes beyond the Holocaust. He said it. He said it was a crime against humanity. He said it. I do not doubt his sincerity. Abdelmadjid Tebboune,…

Yet another 2 mass graves have been came across in Libya’s Tarhuna

Two more mass graves were discovered in the city of Tarhuna, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of the capital Tripoli, where Putis general Khalifa Haftar's militias committed many war crimes during a year of control, according to Libyan authorities. A statement from the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons said the two tombs were discovered in the Mashru'a Alrabet area of ​​Tarhuna. The statement did not specify how many bodies were excavated from the two graves.…