Eye on Africa

In Chad, greater than 4 days earlier than the presidential election scheduled for subsequent Sunday. Six candidates are working towards incumbent President Idriss Deby Itno. With small means, they withdrew to the provinces, the place they tried to steer the folks to not supply one other mandate to the outgoing head of state, in energy for thirty years and asking for a brand new six-year mandate. After…

A slave lady was reportedly provided in a wedding dowry in Ouadane, an historical historic metropolis within the Mauretanian Adrar. Pure invention confirms the Nationwide Fee for Human Rights, near energy, which despatched a fact-finding mission on the bottom. However the president of SOS Esclaves, himself a descendant of slaves, Boubacar Ould Messaoud, was arrested, tried and condemned a number of…

April 7 marks the start of the celebration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. This 12 months is the twenty seventh anniversary of the massacres. Particular anniversary in France: Twelve days in the past, the Ducler Fee issued Emmanuel Macron its report on the function of France throughout and earlier than the genocide. If the Fee excludes complicity in genocide, it considers France to bear "heavy and overwhelming accountability" on this tragedy. This report marks a very important step within the normalization of…

In an announcement launched on Tuesday, the Council of Ministers introduced that it had accepted a invoice to finish the blockade launched in 1958. The textual content has not but been accepted by the Sovereignty Council, the nation's highest authority. However the objective is to raise the boycott of Israeli regulation this yr.…

The long-time president of Djibouti, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, has launched his re-election marketing campaign within the run-up to nationwide elections on 9 April. Apart from Zakaria Ismael Jafar, an “anti-system” unbiased candidate, Guelleh is ready to run for his fifth time period unopposed. His challengers within the 2016 election have all referred to as for a boycott of the poll. The indisputable fact that Guelleh is comfortably settling into his third decade in workplace hints on the state of affairs on this…

Although declared a "priority of priorities" in the early 1980s, agriculture did not allow Congo to be self-sufficient and restrict food imports. The authorities now want to intensify this agriculture in order to diversify the economy of the country, which is struggling to minimize its dependence on oil revenues. From our…

In South Africa, when rhinos are poached, their children are abandoned too young to survive on their own. That is why there is a center in the province of Limpopo, in the north of the country, to collect them, the time when they become independent and can be released into the reserve. From our special correspondent in…

On Tuesday, April 6, the country's new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, considered it "not good" to ignore the importance of the pandemic. She spoke at the inauguration ceremony for members of her new government in Dar es Salaam. ►Samia Suluhu Hassana took the country's reins in March, after the sudden death of John Magufuli.…

The tripartite meeting on the Great Lady of the Renaissance (GERD) ended on Tuesday, April 6 in Kinshasa. Scheduled for two days, it lasted for three days without the Ethiopian, Sudanese and Egyptian delegates reaching an agreement. Félix Tshisekedi hoped to unleash a new dynamic through this meeting to reach a consensus plan. This meeting should also lead to the setting of the goals and frequency of…

Following the trip of several Home and Foreign Ministers and the Head of the European Council last week to Tripoli, the Italian and Greek Prime Ministers paid an official visit to Libya on Tuesday 6 April. They discussed economic and security issues as well as their bilateral cooperation with the new Libyan leadership. This double visit is further proof of Europe's great interest in the political rise…