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Washington strengthens diplomacy in the Horn of Africa. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has just appointed a US envoy for the region. Jeffrey Feltman will take on this role. An experienced diplomat, he was formerly US Deputy Secretary of State for the Middle East and then UN Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs. While Antony Blinken says he fears an escalation of conflicts in the region, Jeffrey Feltman must play a coordinating role between different states and regional and international actors. Find…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, has once again witnessed an increased presence of troops on Wednesday night is the latest sign of a possible breakdown of the opposition. Turkish-trained Haram'ad police with armored vehicles have been deployed on the streets at several major intersections, following the immediate former Mogadishu police chief Braiger General Sadik John protected by dozens of soldiers moved from the airport facility to the Circolo Ufficiale area. The unusual army movement has…

Huang Xia, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to the Great Lakes of Africa, is a guest of Christophe Boisbouvier. The Chinese diplomat returns to the hot spots of the moment when a new government has just taken office in the Democratic Republic of Congo: insecurity in the eastern part of the country and MONUSCO's involvement in the same region, disrupted by the presence of armed groups, or even…

Honoré Ngbanda, former head of intelligence for Mobutu Sese Seko, died in Morocco (as Mobutu). He was 74 years old. The former special adviser to the president had left the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997 a few days before the fall of Marshal Mobutu, who at the time had ruled with the iron fist of the DRC, aka Zaire from 1965 to 1997. He was former president Mobutu Sese Seko's master spy. Honoré Ngbanda has been a staunch supporter of the former Congolese head of state until the end. Born in Lisala, like Mobutu, in…

Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana launched an unprecedented media offensive on Monday (November 30th) against Hershey and Mars, two US multinational chocolate companies, accused of failing to pay the "decent income gap". A special bonus of $ 400 per tonne to better pay small cocoa producers. According to an intermediary, the behavior of the two US multinational companies could jeopardize the maintenance of this…

The final report of the UN Secretary-Normal on Burundi, voluntarily measured to attempt to keep dialogue with Gitega, has executed nothing, the federal government has simply rejected in a dated be aware verbal to the RFI essential proposal from Antonio Guterres on this report, which might be prolonged to the December 31, 2021, the presence of the workplace of his Particular Envoy in Burundi.…

Within the Democratic Republic of Congo, the authorities try to diversify a nonetheless fragile financial system, which is principally because of the mining sector. To do that, they determined to create six particular financial zones. On November 4, Congolese Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba launched the nation's first pilot "particular financial zone" within the suburbs of the capital…

In Madagascar, lychee exporters have been living the most important eight days of the season since November 13, the opening date for the fruit harvest. The only real unknown: will Western buyers put litchi on the holiday table? Trucks, vans, wagons: a real broom of lychee is currently underway in Tamatave, eastern Madagascar. In less than ten days, 15,000 to 20,000 tons of the little pink fruit will pass through the only two roads in the city that converge towards the port. There, the cranes are busy filling the ship's…

In the Central African Republic, President Touadera inaugurated the buildings and, in particular, the courtroom of the Special Criminal Court on Friday 13 November. This hybrid court consisting of Central African and foreign magistrates must try serious crimes committed since 2003 according to recommendations from Bangui Forum 2015. CPS came into operation in October 2018. Ten cases have already been the…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government is trying to diversify the fragile economy, which mainly depends on the mining sector. To do this, the Congolese Prime Minister, Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba, on Wednesday launched the country's first pilot "special economic zone" in the suburbs of the capital Kinshasa.…