Eye on Africa

Burkina Faso is now awaiting the results of the two elections, the legislative and presidential elections, which were held in the country this Sunday, November 22. After the bill, it is now time to compile. Work carried out in 368 municipal centers across the country. Report to the common center of the town hall Ouaga 1 in the center of the capital.…

In the Central African Republic, the deadline is fast approaching. And if all actors are active in organizing the presidential and legislative elections, civil society, for its part, is also preparing through education like those in Minusca. She wants to be ready to play her role in this second election since the 2013 crisis.…

Ethiopian federal forces surrounded the Tigray region's capital from about 50 kilometers (31 miles) on Monday, the government said, after giving the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) a 72-hour ultimatum to give up.

In Ethiopia, the conflict in the province of Tigray continues, still cut off from the world since the fighting began on November 4. The federal army says it is advancing against the dissident regional capital Mekele and is preparing to invade it. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave the TPLF, the party that runs the region, three days to give up, and the army warned residents of the city and caused a UN…

Former Mauritanian head of state Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first democratically elected president in 2007 and overthrown by a coup the following year, died on the night of November 22 to 23 in a clinic in the capital, Nouakchott, of a long illness. A three-day national mourning has been observed since the morning of 23 November throughout the territory.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has as soon as once more accused the present administration of failing to reform the nation's judicial system, arguing that 1000's of residents are actually compelled to hunt justice in al-Shabaab courts throughout the nation. For greater than a decade, al-Shabaab has struggled to overthrow the delicate UN-backed Somalia administration, however their efforts have been hampered by army forces, significantly these from the US-African Union Command and…

In Sudan, bodies found in tombs near Khartoum are buried. The prosecutor announced the launch of new stages in the investigation of these remains that were discovered ten days ago, not far from Khartoum. Authorities believe they are victims of the June 3, 2019. Massacre. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethThe bodies are…

At least nine people were reportedly killed in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday when Boko Haram terrorists targeted a convoy belonging to the governor of Borno state. According to local reports, members of the terrorist group attacked the convoy of the Babagana Zulum government on the Gajiram-Monguno road, killing seven soldiers and two civilians. Zulum escaped unharmed, but this was the third time he has been attacked by Boko Haram terrorists in the past three months, according to a report by Anadolu…

The Fifa Ethics Commission suspended the current president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for five years and fined him 185,000 euros, especially for embezzlement. After 30 years of the Ayatouean presidency of the African Football Confederation, Ahmad was elected by the Madagascar to everyone's surprise in March…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's long-awaited election continues to hold on a thread following the opposition's newest calls for, which have claimed that the present administration could have the plan to rig the presidential election scheduled for February subsequent 12 months. Regardless of a pre-election settlement signed in September by representatives of regional governments and the federal authorities of Somalia, most points stay unchallenged, with these overseeing the train being the final thorn within the…