Eye on Africa

A few weeks now before the presidential election scheduled for October 31, Guillaume Soro from France, this Sunday night, admitted an interview on Burkinabè television, BF1. "The opposition will act in a methodical and effective way", t - he cuts. During this nearly one-hour interview, the president of Generations and Solidarity Peoples (GPS) again assessed that the vote could not be held at the end of the month because it was tainted with illegality, according to him. He particularly attacked the Constitutional Court and…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A contingent of the Somali Nationwide Military Allied elite Gorgor troopers have been attacked by al-Shabaab militants on Saturday, stories present, amid ongoing operations to wipe out the al-Qaeda-linked group that has been terrorizing the nation for practically a decade. Eyewitnesses stated an improvised explosive machine aimed toward a convoy transporting provides to the troops, it was detonated close to Awdhegle city in Decrease Shabelle, inflicting huge destruction. The town was not too long ago…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants have as soon as once more raided a navy base in Somalia, with a rising variety of such instances more likely to provoke a pointy response from the African Union Mission Forces within the Horn of Africa, which has performed operations towards militants in practically 20 years. Preliminary studies are intimate that Al-Shabaab militants raided a Kenya protection Ahead-looking bases in Abdalla Birole and Taabta, positioned in Decrease Jubba, a area that has struggled to…

In Burkina Faso, after six months of class closures to slow the spread of Covid-19, students have returned to school since October 1. Although some schools have implemented washbasin and mask devices, this is not the case everywhere. A situation that worries some parents of students. with our correspondent in Ouagadougou, For a few days, the students have resumed the lessons and some previous performances need to be revised. The context remains the same: Covid-19 is still present, and in some schools it is mandatory to…

Gabonese customs, tax, oil and treasury agents have been on indefinite general strike for almost 3 months. They demand payment of premiums, but also dusting off the files to unmask the phantom agents paid out of billions of FCFA per year. Month. There is certainly a minimum service, but the daily losses will be too great. as…

According to the Tigray regional government since Monday, the government of Addis Ababa is unconstitutional. October 5 should have marked the start of the new term in the federal parliament, but the election was postponed. The state of Tigray therefore wants a transitional government pending the vote. Getachew Reda is a member of the executive committee of the TPLF, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, which runs the region. According to him, from Monday there will be no more federal government, that is, no more…

This is a first, the central bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo has published the audit of its annual accounts per. December 31, 2019, performed for the first time by the auditing firm Deloitte on its website. It was a demand from the IMF that demands more transparency from the country. Not surprisingly, the general government account was in the red per. 31 December 2019. But this report reveals the existence of about thirty sub-accounts, the creditors themselves, which could have been used to compensate for this…

Since Thursday, the Malian junta has published the transition charter. And the document takes into account a significant demand from ECOWAS to lift the sanctions. The embargo against the country could therefore soon be lifted while the malians become impatient. as reported from Bamako, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission, made a trip on Sunday that could be crucial for the abolition or not of sanctions. He arrived in particular in Accra to meet with the Head of State of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo,…

Often challenged by the population and human rights defenders for various abuses of power or brutality, these federal police forces see their area of ​​focus limited. Special units will now have to limit themselves to their main mission. Armed robberies, kidnappings, violent crimes, in short, organized crime, fall within the reach of Nigerian special forces. And that should now be their only activity. The Chief of Police, Inspector General Muhammed Adamu, was categorical: there was no longer a question of routine checks,…

In Côte d'Ivoire, less than a month before the presidential election, the last investment ceremony took place this Sunday in Abidjan. After Alassane Ouattara, Pascal Affi N'Guessan and Henri Konan Bedié, it is Kouadio Konan Bertin who formalized his presidential ambitions in front of his supporters. as reported from Abidjan, Candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin had made a risky effort, namely to fill the amphitheater at the Palais de la culture in Treichville: 2,500 seats. Bet raised. During the day, fans danced, excited,…