Eye on Africa

Guineans voted for a president on Sunday, with 82-year-old incumbent Alpha Condé going through his longtime rival Cellou Dalein Diallo for the third time. Protection within the West African state ended Friday at midnight, limiting a tense political marketing campaign marked by insults traded between President Alpha Condé and his…

More than eight months of silence following the debate on 22 February calls for the National Alliance for Change in Togo to mobilize. During its national council, party leaders on Wednesday, October 14, called for a resumption of the struggle with the aim of shifting and changing. as reported from Lomé,Peter Sassou DogbéBy…

Sudan signed a "historic" memorandum of understanding on Thursday with General Electric, the US power generation group. The deal comes after decades of US sanctions, with Sudan since 1993 on the US blacklist of countries supporting terrorism. Between 1992 and 1996, the Sudanese dictator Omar-al-Bashir had really welcomed the leader of the jihadist group al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden.…

The trial in the case of the assassination of President Thomas Sankara in 1987 and his twelve accomplices could begin next year. After several years, the investigating judge in charge of the case in the military court completed his work and issued an order in which the prosecutors and the prosecuted persons in the control chamber are displayed.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Spy chiefs from the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, the Eritrean authorities and the Federal Authorities of Somalia meet in Addis Ababa for secret talks, Axadlehas established, simply days after leaders from the three nations had talks, albeit individually, in what may set off the disaster. Aside from Eritrea, the opposite two nations are both scuffling with controversy earlier than the election, or a minimum of they're going through inner political challenges with additionally uncertainty that…

SOMALIA, MOGADISHU- A prime officer from the Somali Nationwide Military was amongst these killed within the unprecedented ambush led by al-Shabaab militants on Wednesday in Afgoye, not less than 30 kilometers west of Mogadishu, in an assault that's nonetheless the worst in latest historical past. Al-Shabaab militants detained troopers who have been on an everyday patrol on the outskirts of Afgoye, resulting in a fierce gun battle that lasted for a number of hours on Wednesday, in line with officers. The navy…

The Libyan government in Tripoli announced on Friday, October 16, the arrest of a Coast Guard official suspected of human trafficking, including migrants to Europe. Captain Abdelrahman Milad - known as "Al-Bidja" - was a senior official of the Coast Guard in Zawiya, about fifty kilometers west of Tripoli. His name is on a list…

Netflix is ​​now screening extra content material produced in Africa, and producers on the continent consider their work will present that there's a subscriber urge for food for films that go deeper than the Hollywood stereotypes. Producers of two African-made movies, which premiered on Netflix this month, consider their work will present that there's a subscription to movies that go deeper…

For more than a week, the village of Farabougou in the Ségou region has been cut off from the world surrounded by armed men banning entry. Mediation attempts have been made with local notables, but the inhabitants still remain the monastery at home. "The army has already reached a village about ten kilometers from our village.…

Guineans are called to the polls tomorrow Sunday to elect the next president of the republic. In the current, outgoing President Alpha Condé, candidate for a third term after the controversial adoption of a new constitution. In front of him, eleven competitors, including his main opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo. Everything seemed clear, but on the eve of the election, some members of the Independent…