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A tropical rainstorm is pelting down, and even the armed police who watch his entranceway have taken shelter. Inside his gated mansion, Kizza Besigye sits alone in the gloom, listening to the pounding rain as he ponders his fate. The Ugandan opposition leader has been released from house arrest, but the […]
Climate change is likely to lead to increased average rainfall in the world's major river basins but weather patterns will be fickle and the timing of wet seasons may change, threatening farming and food stocks, experts said on Monday. Furthermore, some river systems in Africa -- southern Africa's […]
When she left her home in war-torn Sudan a few years ago, Esra Khaleel found herself on a small campus near one of South Africa’s most famous beaches, where she could see the surfers and sunbathers from the windows. But she never learned to swim. She was too focused on her work at the innovative new […]
Congo must avoid electoral violence or risk facing the International Criminal Court (ICC), its prosecutor said on Friday, joining an international chorus warning about the prospect of bloodshed in this month's voting. "The use of violence cannot be tolerated," ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in a […]
South Africa’s ruling party has finally moved to quash a power struggle that was dampening foreign investment and threatening the power of President Jacob Zuma, but appeals and political battles are likely to continue for months. In a long-awaited ruling today, the African National Congress imposed a […]
La Belgique, l'Union européenne, la France, la Grande-Bretagne et l'ONU ont vivement réagi à "l’appel à la violence" de l'opposant et candidat à la présidentielle en RDC, Étienne Tshisekedi, ainsi qu’aux heurts qui ont suivi. De nouvelles violences préélectorales ont eu lieu mardi en fin de journée en […]
Niger's army has clashed with a heavily armed convoy travelling from Libya towards Mali, security sources say. Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidio said that one soldier was killed in the clashes on Sunday while several attackers were captured. Mr Karidio did not clarify whether or not the convoy was made […]
BOKO HARAM, a radical Islamic sect killed at least 63 people in a spate of coordinated gun and bomb attacks in Yobe, a state in Nigeria’s northeast. The attacks in the towns of Damaturu and Potiskum, which took place on Saturday, followed a triple suicide bombing at Nigeria's military headquarters and […]
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has sacked six ministers from his cabinet for poor performance, his spokesman said. Minister of Public Security Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, Foreign Affairs Minister Augustin Nsanze, Justice Minister Ancilla Ntakaburimvo, Planning and Communal Development Minister Pierre […]
Le second tour de l’élection présidentielle au Liberia s’est ouvert mardi 8 novembre. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf est seule en lice après l’appel au boycott de son adversaire Winston Tubman. Au moins deux partisans du candidat du Congrès pour le changement démocratique sont morts lundi lors de manifestations. […]
SYNTHESE ET RECOMMANDATIONS du Rapport Malgré plus d’une décennie d’efforts de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique centrale (CEEAC) pour concrétiser l’architecture de paix et de sécurité, la coopération politique et sécuritaire en Afrique centrale est à la recherche d’un second souffle. Désignée […]
Sporadic gunfire broke out in the centre of Monrovia on Monday after Liberian riot police fired tear gas to disperse several hundred supporters of presidential challenger Winston Tubman, a Reuters witness said. A Liberian police officer said both the police and Tubman's CDC party supporters had fired but […]
Hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in southern Africa are adopting fast-growing trees and shrubs to fertilise their fields naturally, for improved yields and incomes, according to a study. Scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), a non-profit research organisation in Kenya, analysed […]
The authorities have arrested Marcial Abaga Barril, an opposition member who planned to campaign against the Nov. 13 referendum on a constitutional change that would all but ensure Africa’s longest-serving dictator could extend his rule, Human Rights Watch said Friday. Mr. Barril was arrested outside his […]
While the world is struggling to contain the epidemic of Somali pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean, a new “copycat” phenomenon is emerging on the other side of the continent, in West Africa, where piracy is expanding rapidly. The new piracy hotspot is the Gulf of Guinea, off the coasts of Nigeria and […]
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