[The United Nations envoy to the Great Lakes region says she will be direct with Kigali about evidence of Rwandan support for the M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Mary Robinson also hopes the recent military advances against the rebels will create a window for a political solution to the crisis .Robinson…
[Kenya is preparing to employ drones as part of increased security operations along its borders with Somalia and Ethiopia to monitor and halt the movements of al-Shabaab and gunrunners, security officials told Sabahi. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are needed to help Kenyan security forces on the ground patrol the country’s frontiers, said Patrick Ochieng,…
[South African ex-President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a Pretoria hospital where he is being treated for a recurrent lung infection. The office of President Jacob Zuma says the 94-year-old remains in a serious but stable condition. Relatives, including his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, visited the ailing former leader on Monday. He has…
[YOKOHAMA — Africa will be an engine for world growth in coming decades, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe said on Monday, wrapping up a meeting in which Tokyo pledged significant aid as it tries to match China’s reach on the continent. Mr Abe said Africa would be at the leading edge of economic expansion and that…
[Army begins operation against fighters as fighter jets and helicopter gunships deployed in country’s northeast. Nigerian forces have launched attack on Boko Haram strongholds in the country’s northeast region, security sources have told Reuters news agency, amid deployment of fighter jets and helicopter gunships. Soldiers raided areas in the Sambisa Game Reserve in Borno state…
[World body admits it should have done more to prevent 2010-2012 tragedy, finding half of those who died were children. Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report that admits the world body should have done more to prevent the tragedy….
[At least 20 vehicles loaded with anti-aircraft guns block road as 200 armed men demand removal of Gaddafi-era staff. Armed men have surrounded Libya’s foreign ministry in the capital, Tripoli, to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government be banned from senior positions in the new administration. At least…
[Un attentat à la voiture piégée. Un véhicule a explosé mardi matin devant l’ambassade de France en Libye, à Tripoli. Deux gendarmes français sont blessés. Un grièvement, l’autre n’a que des égratignures. D’après des témoins, le quartier est méconnaissable. Le bâtiment abritant les locaux de la chancellerie a été fortement endommagé et une partie du…
[UNITED NATIONS: Rwanda won a behind-the-scenes battle Monday to keep the U.N. Security Council from recommending any role for the International Criminal Court in solving conflicts, violence and human rights abuse in Africa, saying the Hague-based court “condemns crimes committed by some but not others.” Rwanda is angry that the ICC has indicted Bosco Ntaganda…
[Une attaque contre le principal tribunal de Mogadiscio et un attentat à la voiture piégée a entraîné la mort d’une trentaine de civils ce dimanche en Somalie. Des hommes armés portant des explosifs ont lancé un assaut contre le complexe judiciaire. Certains se sont fait sauter pendant que d’autres tiraient sur les civils. Neuf membres…
