Eye on Africa

It has been a month since this Friday, December 4, that the battle started in Ethiopia. The federal military has taken management of Mekele, the capital of Tigray, however the TPLF has promised to proceed combating. Dialogue nonetheless appears not possible between the 2 camps because the humanitarian state of affairs continues to deteriorate.

The UN said Friday that fighting continued "in many parts" of Ethiopia's Tigray, complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite an agreement that gave the UN access to territory under federal control. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced military operations in the northern region a month ago, saying they were targeting the leaders of its ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Last week, he declared victory and said the fighting was "over" after federal forces entered the…

The former Ivorian head of state could soon return to Abidjan. After several months of waiting, Laurent Gbagbo recovered his two passports on Friday: a regular and a diplomatic one. Since his arrest in April 2011, Laurent Gbagbo no longer had a travel document.

Madagascar is currently suffering from a pluviometric deficit leading to a shortage of drinking water in several regions of the country and not just in the south where famine is widespread. While the rainy season should be in full swing, the meteorology department decided last week to start "artificial rain" to allow the springs to be regenerated. The first resort to benefit from it was Fianarantsoa in…

It's a challenge whose precept was adopted a month in the past at a discussion board convened by the federal government however which was boycotted by a part of the opposition and civil society. Any longer, Chad, which not has a put up as Prime Minister, could have a Vice-President and a two-chamber parliamentary system. as…

Whereas many Namibians have names that originate from the previous colonial energy Germany, a newly elected municipal council has risen to prominence in a single day, not due to its victory however as a result of his identify is Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler Uunona, 54, a politician from the ruling Southwest African Folks's Group (SWAPO) political social gathering, was elected final week to the municipal council of the Ompundja constituency in northern Namibia, with 85% of the vote. Uunona sounded…

Schools and universities will be closed for ten days. A measure motivated by an increase in new cases of coronavirus registered in recent weeks. Almost 159 cases have been registered in the last 24 hours. Since the pandemic began in March, Mauritania has experienced 9,000 cases of infection, including 7,900 cures and 181 deaths. The death toll has risen in recent days.…

For almost four years, the English-speaking regions of the northwest and southwest have been in conflict between independent armed groups and the Cameroonian police. Murders and abuses committed in both camps left more than 3,000 dead and 700,000 displaced. The government finally organized regional elections that would give these regions access to a special status. But for those who have lost…

The Zouglou music duo had been instantly prosecuted for contempt of courtroom, discredited the judiciary and disseminated false info with racial and tribal tastes. Final Sunday, throughout a live performance within the municipality of Yopougon, the well-known Ivorian group had listed prosecutor Richard Adou and accused him of solely prosecuting opposition activists as a part of investigations into…

Libya's ceasefire has been held since it was reached in October, and rival parties continue talks at the negotiating table, but the road to a permanent political solution that will end the nearly decade-long civil war and bring peace to the country still hangs in the balance due to deep divisions over a transition leader. The UN has "succeeded in accelerating the pace of inter-Libyan negotiations by exerting pressure on all parties, as much at the military level as the political level," Miloud el-Hajj,…