Eye on Africa

HARGEISA, Somalia - The northern breakaway area of Somaliland has urged taking the chance following the US announcement of plans to withdraw troops from troubled Somalia and urges Washington to contemplate depleting its pursuits in Hargeisa, which is comparatively extra peaceable than Mogadishu. Somaliland claims to have withdrawn from Somalia after their frosty relationship, which led to 1991 after practically three many years of cooperation. The 2 had united after gaining independence from Britain and Italy,…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Salaam Somali Financial institution's department in Suq Ba'advert, Mogadishu, on Saturday supplied native entrepreneurs with free microfinance as a part of the annual non-profit funding program generally known as "Qardu Hassan". The annual fund is geared toward creating and inspiring small companies all through Somalia, in line with the financial institution's administration, which is credited with being the primary within the nation to start out in 2009. Merchants, together with women and men,…

The Central African Republic is establishing a hemodialysis heart and a medical imaging heart specifically geared up with a scanner. A improbable first for the nation which might thus enhance the care of the sick. as reported from Bangui, Charlotte cossetDialysis, scanners, mammography, dental panoramas ... The hospital heart…

US President Donald Trump has ordered the removing of most US army and safety personnel from Somalia, the place they've carried out operations in opposition to al-Shabab's militant group, the Pentagon stated on Friday. Trump "has ordered the Division of Protection and the U.S. Command to relocate the vast majority of Somalia's personnel and belongings in early 2021," the assertion stated. The Division of Protection pressured that america "doesn't withdraw or disconnect from Africa", amid issues a…

In Niger, a new step was taken this week in the so-called "Uraniumgate" deal. An investigation was launched this year in France and ROTAB, the network of organizations for transparency and budget analysis, has just become a civil party. The financial scandal says about "uraniumgateExploded in 2017. This is a transaction that…

The aim of this pact: to keep away from violence within the elections through the vote on Monday, 7 December. This settlement comes after generally sizzling exchanges between the 2 long-standing opponents who thereby present their connection to democracy. With our particular correspondent in Accra, Christina okelloThey arrived…

WASHINGTON, USA - The Ministry of Protection has for the primary time printed a press launch expressing intentions to withdraw greater than 700 troopers who've served in Somalia, a rustic scuffling with frequent Al-Shabaab assaults and a few traces of ISIS department in Somalia's raids. Within the assertion, the division stated outgoing President Donald Trump had "ordered" the withdrawal of troops from the war-torn nation in early 2021 in a transfer that would compromise positive factors achieved by Allied forces,…

It's debated with Wathi, as each Saturday at RFI with Gilles Yabi. After Guinea, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, the place outgoing President Marc-Christian Kaboré has simply been re-elected within the first spherical and with out a disaster after the election, it's Ghana's flip to prepare presidential and legislative elections…

In the essential openness that a credible choice requires, the role of the media in Africa may be more important than one imagines. Andréane Meslard: Despite the reservations they expressed about the organization of the presidential election on November 22, Burkinabè's opponents graciously accepted the results. Even better,…

Senegal held a final tribute to PapeBouba Diop this Friday, December 4th. The former RC player in Lens, France, and the Senegalese national football team were promoted to the rank of Grand Officer of the National Order of the Lion by Head of State Macky Sall and a football museum will bear his name. with our correspondent in…