Eye on Africa

Presidential and legislative elections shall be held this Sunday, November 22, in Burkina Faso. RFI provides the ground to every presidential candidate and welcomes cemercredil's opponent Zéphirin Diabré, 61. The chief of the UPC (Union for Progress and Change) is operating for the best workplace for the second time: he got here in second place in 2015 with 29.65% of the vote. Former Minister of Commerce from 92 to 94, then Minister of Finance till 1996 beneath Blaise Compaoré, Zéphirin Diabré proposed the formation of a…

On the run from the warfare in Tigray, increasingly Ethiopians are taking refuge in neighboring Sudan. In simply over every week, nearly 30,000 refugees have arrived in Sudan, in response to the UNHCR. They discuss in regards to the violence within the preventing in Tigray and ensure that Eritrea additionally participates within the preventing.…

Asecnatire's workers' union is sounding the alarm when the government wants to hand over the management and renovation of this airport to the Turkish group Damnus. They fear that their jobs will disappear. Asecna representatives , members of the Commission set up by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation to "analyze the…

World Well being Group (WHO) Director-Regular Tedros Adhanom has been “completely engaged in soliciting diplomatic and armed forces assist” for the Tigray Individuals’s Liberation Entrance (TPLF) in numerous components of the world, a high official talked about Monday.

In step with FANA and completely different regional safety and security sources suggested Axadle, that Ethiopia is engaged on the considered setting up stronger maritime forces station in Eritrea, Djibouti and Somaliland 2021. In step with BBC Africa desk, When Eritrea re-gained its independence in 1993 from the Derg, the model new Ethiopian federal authorities led by TPLF and EPRDF the entire sudden found itself with no shoreline and so it took the logical step of disbanding its navy in 1992. after three a very long…

The Ethiopian military is marching on Tigray's regional capital Mekele, the federal government mentioned on Wednesday, promising that the battle, which has now entered its third week, would quickly be over. "Because the armed forces proceed to advance in the direction of Mekele, the junta has dismantled 4 bridges which can be on all roads resulting in the town," the federal government committee on the battle mentioned in a press release. Military Chief Berhanu Jula mentioned in a press release that the…

Madagascar has one of the lowest environmental indices on the planet. One in five deaths on the island is caused by environmental degradation and its effects on health. Various researchers have sounded the alarm during a conference day on this topic. From our correspondent in Antananarivo,In 2016, a study was initiated on the…

The Ethiopian government said on Tuesday that its troops had achieved significant victories on the eastern and western fronts of its war against Tigray's leaders and that its army was marching to the region's capital Mekelle. "The junta's force is now withdrawing, and the army is marching to bring the TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front) junta to justice," said a statement from the government's working group on the Tigray conflict. Tigray's leaders were not immediately available for comment.…

In keeping with the UNHCR, greater than 28,000 Ethiopians took refuge in Sudan in simply over every week. On the border, refugees are nonetheless flowing. With our particular envoy to the Sudanese border,This Monday, November 16, in someday, greater than 3,200 folks crossed the Tégézé River, which marks the border between…

Ethiopia has for two weeks been thrown into a spiral of violence with the government's offensive against Tigray, north of the capital Addis Ababa. It is difficult to know the exact battle and the number of victims, as the province is still cut off from the world. More than 27,000 Ethiopians have already fled to neighboring Sudan.…