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Regional reporting and analysis from across Africa, covering diplomacy, security, politics, business, and major developments shaping the continent.

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Eye on Africa

Regional reporting and analysis from across Africa, covering diplomacy, security, politics, business, and major developments shaping the continent.

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America is formalizing the withdrawal of troops from Somalia

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,…

An incomparable designer of election transparency

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,…

national tribute to football player Pape Bouba Diop

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…

his followers are tough and waiting for his return

Laurent Gbagbo now has his two passports, one diplomatic one. The two sesams were given to him by the Ivorian authorities in Brussels on Friday, December 4. A long-awaited return to the Ivory Coast where many hope it will lead to political reconciliation. as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto"One thing is clear here," former…

The European Union is setting the tone

Five days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that the federal army had taken over the city of Mekele, a stronghold of the Tigray People's Liberation Party, fighting is continuing in some areas of the region, the UN Office regrets. united. In recent days, a humanitarian corridor should have been created, but NGOs have still not been able to access the country. Meanwhile, refugees continue to…