Eye on Africa

A Canadian mining firm was getting ready to look in court docket for "slavery" and "pressured labor" in Eritrea following complaints from former staff who labored whereas employed within the dreaded obligatory navy service, which is obligatory. the youth of the nation. However an settlement was reached with the plaintiffs on the final minute.…

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 individuals, together with 13 troopers in a number of assaults in central Mali, burned down a military base and ambushed troops despatched as reinforcements, the military and native authorities mentioned on Tuesday. The assaults had been lethal because the August 18 army coup that toppled…

British lengthy distance runner Mo Farah has been appointed ambassador to the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority. Farah was appointed ambassador on the day Djibouti created the conversion of the historic port right into a enterprise district. "We're very completely satisfied to be with Mo Farah on the ceremony to begin regeneration of the Port of Djibouti. DPFZA is worked up to have Sir Mo as our ambassador and appears ahead to collaborating on future tasks, ”tweeted the Port of Djibouti Directive. "The ties…

A prestigious literary prize was awarded on Monday night to Eritrean poet and journalist Amanuel Asrat, who has been missing from a prison in his country since September 2001. It is the British poet of Jamaican origin, Linton Kwesi Johnson, winner of the PEN Harold Prize Pinter 2020 awarded by the Founding Club of the Famous Writers' Circle, which in his absence presented him with the International Prize for Writer of Courage. Amanuel Asrat is one of the oldest political prisoners in the world and is said to be one of the…

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa is concerned about the decline in remittances from African diasporas. With the global economic crisis, these diasporas are sending less money to the countries of origin. This year, the decline is expected to reach 21% or 18 billion. Dollars less compared to 2019. The forecasts are alarming. Transfers will go from $ 85 billion in 2019 to $ 67 billion this year. And for many families living in anticipation of the manna sent by parents who have gone “north,” this is a…

A military position in Sokoura, in the circle of Bankass, "was the subject of a terrorist attack" from Monday night to Tuesday, said the army, which reports a preliminary death toll of "nine dead" and wounded in its ranks ". A reinforcement sent to the scene then fell Tuesday morning into an ambush that left "three dead, ten wounded" and missing, according to the statement. as reported from Bamako, The Malian army faced two attacks. First, that of his camp in the center of the country, a few dozen kilometers from the…

The highest mountain in Africa has been hit by a fire that started on Sunday. This large tourist resort, located in Tanzania, rises to 5895 meters above sea level. On the spot, hundreds of people - firefighters, soldiers, volunteers - are trying to limit the advance of the flame. With our regional correspondent in Nairobi, Nearly 400 soldiers, 600 firefighters, residents of the region, students and staff from tourism companies have been deployed on the slopes of Kilimanjaro in an attempt to control the fire. The flames…

The Treasury General is on all hot topics of the hour: civil servant pay, exceptions, answers to covid, Go pass, Bukanda Lonzo ... This institution, which relies on the presidency of the republic, is currently carrying out current 34 control missions including 26 in Kinshasa. However, it only has about forty inspectors still active ... IGF has not recruited for thirty years. The need is so much more urgent, as the Inspector General of Finance now daily checks all the revenue and expenditure of the state to prevent abuse.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The federal authorities of Somalia has opened the streets of Mogadishu after years of closure, regardless of the nation nonetheless combating to include Al-Shabaab militants mentioned to be making incursions into the capital, which they as soon as managed earlier than being pushed out. To keep off frequent assaults by the militants, the federal government closed numerous streets within the capital, a few of which had been additionally erected with roadblocks assigned to the Somali Nationwide…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants have infiltrated the monetary sector within the Horn of Africa, the UN stated in a report revealing the weak safety within the nation, which has struggled to curb the insurgency for the previous 14 years. . Al-Shabaab has previously been linked to infiltration into the federal government, notably the safety forces, a declare that President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has typically denied, accusing his opponents of manufacturing propaganda geared toward…