Eye on Africa

Consultations for a Holy Nation of the Union ... Several newspapers in Kinshasa are commenting this week on possible conclusions or speculating on their results. Under the headline "Assume divorce or temperament", the daily newspaper Le Potentiel writes that Félix Antoine Tshisekedi will have to make a choice at the end of the Palais de la Nation's consultation, which, according to the newspaper, is facing strong tensions with its allies in the FCC. For this daily, the fifth president of the DRC is investing in a high…

Burkina Faso is eagerly awaiting the presidential election regardless of the difficult safety scenario. As with all West African presidential elections, we took this chance in Wathi to current a listing of the nation, making residents out there the biographies and applications proposed by the candidates. We had been pleasantly…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - High opposition candidates within the upcoming Somalia election will from Saturday lead conversations about disagreements which have arisen in the way in which that elections are to be held within the nation with simply over a number of weeks till the beginning of the train. The crew has already rejected an inventory of members of the nomination committee accepted by Villa Somalia, claiming that almost all members had hyperlinks to the Nationwide Intelligence Safety Company , a requirement that…

Where is Guillaume Soro currently? The question arises after the little sentence that Emmanuel Macron released yesterday in "Jeune Afrique": "I think he is no longer in France", the French president said about him. The former Ivorian prime minister's entourage did not want to say more. What is certain is that France no longer wants him on its territory. Guillaume Soro is now unwanted on French soil. Emmanuel Macron made it clear yesterday in an interview he gave to our colleagues from Jeune Afrique: "He does not need to…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Outgoing Somalia's International Minister Ahmed Awad has rejected an ambassadorial job provide from Villa Somalia, simply hours after he was fired by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble on Thursday in a transfer that has raised suspicion and political nervousness within the nation. On Thursday, Awad, a minister in President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo's administration, was launched from his duties in what's believed to be the confusion over the continuing Ethiopian disaster within the Tigray…

In Madagascar, we are seeing an increase in the prices of basic necessities. During two weeks, in the markets of the capital, but also in the provinces, the kilo of different rice varieties, a commodity that forms the basis of the Malagasy diet, has increased from 200 to 400 ariary. Oil and sugar prices are also rising. An increase that worries Malagasy households, which have already been hit hard by the economic and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the Analakely market in the center of the Malagasy…

Since the beginning of the conflict in Tigray, the possible involvement of Eritrea, the country bordering the Ethiopian province, has often been mentioned. But what do we know about the situation on the Eritrean front? The Ethiopian army operates freely from Eritrean territory with the support of the authorities in Asmara. If…

Burkinabé voters will be called to Sunday's by-elections, presidential and legislative elections. The campaign ended on Friday night. According to CENI, 10,660 national and international observers will be deployed in the field, including 3,800 code observers. The Convention on Civil Liberties Organizations for Domestic Election Observation brings together 19 Burkinabè civil society organizations. "When you arrive at your polling station, the voter list should appear in front of the station. If it is not, send a message to…

Two Sukhoi, Russian-made fighter jets belonging to the Angolan army, were at an air show in the sky over Kinshasa on Friday. These military maneuvers took place four days after Félix Tshisekedi's stay in Angola. The Congolese head of state spoke for a few hours on Monday, November 16, with his Angolan counterpart. The military exercise on Friday was intended to "enlarge the perfect understanding between the two air forces", the Congolese army explains. According to the cabinet of Félix Tshisekedi, this air meeting is "the…

In a decree dated 18 November, Cameroon's territorial administration ministers banned the movement of "10 million northerners" by journalist Guibai Gatama, head of the publication "l'Oeil du Sahel". This ban comes a few months after the association Survie Cameroun by the opponent Maurice Kamto. The authorities consider that this movement "undermines national unity and the principle of peaceful coexistence between the sociological components of the nation". For the Minister of Territorial Administration, the movement "10…