Eye on Africa

Lower than 15 days earlier than the primary spherical of the Ivory Coast presidential election, this week RFI is providing you a sequence of 5 studies from Africa and the economic system. First half on Monday: The best way to make Ivorian cashew extra aggressive and, particularly, to overcome the British and European markets? That was the topic of a debate that befell on Friday 16 October in Abidjan.…

In Ivory Coast, in Gagnoa, the hometown of Laurent Gbagbo, the query of returning to the previous Ivorian president swallows the political debate. Some are ready for him as a messiah, others hope to not hear extra about this thorny topic. The authorities' refusal to provide him a passport to permit him to return to the Ivory Coast, in addition to the tensions earlier than the election, arouses anger and…

Guineans voted for a president on Sunday, with 82-year-old incumbent Alpha Condé dealing with his longtime rival Cellou Dalein Diallo for the third time. The election of Guinea - the primary in a string of West Africa - adopted a tense marketing campaign marked by insults traded between President Alpha Condé and his main…

KISMAYO, Somalia - Al-Shabaab militants looted a Kenya protection army base inside sector II of the AMISOM, studies point out that in yet one more assault coming amid rising uprisings throughout the nation, which has seen dozens of army officers die in numerous ambushes staged by the group. Preliminary studies recommend militants raided Taabta Ahead Working Base close to Dhobley, AMISOM's Sector II headquarters, in an assault that witnessed important opposition from the KDF workforce, which finally managed to…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - America ought to rethink its determination to demand the withdrawal of troops from war-torn Somalia, Kenya's Secretary of State Kamau Macharia famous, simply days after Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of troops from the Horn of Africa. At the moment, the US has near 600 troops in Somalia, and most of them have been deployed after Trump took over from Barack Obama in 2017. That is the best quantity in a single nation in Africa, minus a complete of seven,000…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A high businessman was arrested by the Nationwide Intelligence Safety Company in Somalia over ties with Al-Shabaab, in one more step that might assist appropriate loopholes utilized by the militants to achieve monetary help from various sympathizers within the nation who've struggled with instability for a number of years. Abukar Omar Adani was arrested by sleuths after he brazenly confirmed help for Al-shabaab in a controversial interview. The militants management giant components of central…

Gabon has eased its curfew against Covid-19, and the authorities have also allowed, under several conditions, the reopening of places of worship. as reported from Libreville, Gabonese are happy about the easing of the curfew, which now begins at. 22 instead of kl. In addition, the government has announced the reopening of churches and mosques, a reopening with many conditions: only one day of worship per. Week a negative Covid test is required to attend a worship service, and offerings and communion are prohibited.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's Intelligence and Safety Agent has arrested a neighborhood journalist, Abdullahi Kulmiye Adow, for interviewing a number one pro-Al-Shabab businessman in Mogadishu on Saturday evening, authorities stated. The dealer, Abukar Omar Adan, was detained by NISA the day earlier than, in one other step that might assist appropriate loopholes utilized by the militants to achieve monetary assist from numerous sympathizers within the nation who've struggled with instability. In a few years. Adan was…

The presidential election comes after greater than 90 individuals have been killed in protests in opposition to the 82-year-old ruler Alpha Condes' bid for a 3rd time period Guineans started voting in a high-stakes presidential election wherein 82-year-old Alpha Conde faces a controversial third time period.The vote, the primary in a sequence throughout West Africa, follows months of political…

Woungly Massaga, revolutionary pan-Africanist, figure in the armed struggle for Cameroon's independence, died on Saturday 17 October in Yaoundé at the age of 84. Nicknamed "Commander Kissamba", Woungly Massagafut in the late 1960s, one of the leaders of this independence movement that was in conflict with the Cameroonian power Ahamadou Ahidjo and France. He died in Yaoundé on Saturday, October 17, at the age of 84. In the early 1970s, he revived the UPC, a party founded to gain Carmoun's independence after the…