Eye on Africa

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…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The African Union Mission has honored 26 police elements working with the mission in Somalia for his or her position in contributing to the continuing efforts to revive peace and stability within the Horn of Africa, which has been struggling for the previous three a long time. The officers acknowledged are from Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Zambia returning to their dwelling international locations after finishing a yr and three months of service underneath AMISOM, the mission stated in an…

The Financial Supervisory Authority is on all hot topics: pay officials, exemptions, responses to Covid-19, Go pass, Bukanda Lonzo ... This institution, which relies on the Presidency of the Republic, is currently carrying out 34 control missions, including 26 in Kinshasa . However, it only has about forty inspectors still active. IGF has not recruited for thirty years. But, and this is a small revolution, with the support of the firm Price Waterhouse Cooper, it must in the coming weeks recruit about sixty inspectors.…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya is predicted to face one other wave of desert jumpers in November following the primary hit earlier this yr, the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) has warned and harassed that the state of affairs stays worrying within the Horn of Africa and will probably worsen additional this month latest breeding. In a state of affairs replace report from Desert Locust launched on October 5, the FAO stated there can be an elevated menace of swarm migration from Yemen, northeastern…

Greater than 90 folks have been killed in a fierce assault on protesters in opposition to Guinea President Alpha Condes' try to hunt a controversial third time period within the weekend, a number one opposition group mentioned on Monday. The 82-year-old is looking for re-election on October 18, after pushing by way of a brand…

After Nzérékoré, Lola, Macenta and Guéckédou, the head of state held a meeting on Monday 12 October in the forest city of Kissidougou in the south of the country. During his speech, he said he regretted the violence that took place in the Kankan region, where the procession from his main rival, Cellou Dalein Diallo, was blocked the day before. With our correspondent After Macenta and Guéckédou in the morning, it is in Kissidougou that the presidential helicopter landed in the early afternoon. From the stadium, Alpha…

In Senegal, the international environmental NGO Greenpeace condemns in a report the non-transparency of the issuance of industrial fishing licenses to Chinese vessels. A practice that had already condemned stakeholders in the fisheries and Senegalese media. as reported from Dakar, The controversy over the allocation of industrial fishing licenses continues in Senegal. It all started in May last year. In a letter to President Macky Sall, Senegalese fisheries organizations condemn the license application from 52 foreign…

Officially, more than 1.3 million students, from kindergarten to high school, have returned to the path on Monday, October 12, at the start of the 2020-2021 school year. All in all, they are happy to return to their places of learning after seven months of forced leave due to coronavirus, whose cases have dropped significantly in the country. But their joy is somewhat ruined by the hassle of transportation. as reported from Brazzaville, His parents dropped him off by car early in the morning at Chaminade High School,…

Four days after the release of Sophie Pétronin, Soumaila Cissé and the two Italian hostages, the gray areas are still numerous. France assures it in any case: its role in this affair was only secondary. "The operation was carried out by the Malians, the terms of the negotiations were not carried out by France". This is the message conveyed by the Elysée while the conditions for the release of Sophie Pétronin raise questions. If the two countries' external services have worked together, it is Bamako who has kept control…

Madagascar, which currently has 22 regions, should soon have 23. One of them, the Middle East region "Vatovavy Fitovinany", will be split in two if Parliament ratifies the split just proposed by President Rajoelina. But this division is not suitable for everyone. And the reasons to justify such a change, even less. as reported from Antananarivo This shrub farmer on the outskirts of Ranomafana National Park is careful. "I have never heard of this separation and no one has ever asked us for our opinion on it. I wonder…