[Les raids aériens de l’armée française au Mali, dont l’objectif est de “liquider” les groupes armés islamistes selon l’expression du ministre de la défense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, ont visé ce week-end le nord du pays, alors que le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies doit se réunir lundi 14 janvier à la demande de la…

[Malian soldiers have fired on Islamist fighters in the centre of the country, military sources say.It the first significant fighting reported between the two sides since Islamist and Tuareg rebels seized control of the north of the country last April. The Islamists had reportedly tried to make an advance into the government-controlled south. It is…

[A truck carrying illegal migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has flipped in Angola, killing 16 people and seriously injuring three others. The illegal immigrants were travelling from the border post of Soyo, in Angola’s northwest, to the capital Luanda, when the accident occurred on Sunday. According to police chief Andre Massota of…

[President of Central African Republic appeals for help in fending off rebels who are advancing on the capital. The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui,…

[The Kenyan government on Thursday blamed a spate of bomb and grenade attacks in Nairobi in Eastleigh residential estate on Al-Shabaaab militants from Somalia. Nairobi Provincial Commissioner Njoroge Ndirangu told a news conference in Nairobi that so far the police are holding 23 suspects in connection with Wednesday night’s attack and will be arraigned in…

[« Les Tunisiens ne sont pas contents de la tournure des événements dans leurs pays et ils le montrent, constate le quotidien La Tribune en Algérie. Hier, c’étaient le tour des habitants de Sidi Bouzid, ville contestatrice, d’où est partie l’étincelle du printemps arabe, de crier ce mécontentement. Des manifestants ont pulvérisé la tribune officielle…

[The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt declared a narrow victory in the first round of a hotly contested constitutional referendum, even as activists’ reports of fraud and calls for a rerun renewed the nation’s political impasse. The Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, said Sunday its own unofficial exit polls showed 56.5% of voters…

[La famille du premier Premier ministre congolais Patrice Emery Lumumba, assassiné en 1961, souhaite que le gouvernement de Kinshasa l’appuie dans le procès qui pourrait avoir lieu en Belgique, a affirmé jeudi l’un de ses fils, Roland Lumumba, à la radio onusienne Okapi. Plus de cinquante ans après les faits, la justice belge a annoncé…

[Le Premier ministre du Mali, Cheick Modibo Diarra, a annoncé mardi matin sa démission quelques heures après avoir été arrêté par des soldats à Bamako alors qu’il avait prévu de se rendre en France.Cet incident politique risque de compliquer les efforts actuellement menés pour rétablir la stabilité dans le pays dont le nord est passé…

[Ghana’s incumbent president, John Dramani Mahama, has secured a first round victory in an election which was extended because of the malfunctioning of voter-identification machines.Mahama had over 50 percent of votes cast from the country’s 275 constituencies, according to results declared by the electoral body. Nana Akufo-Addo, the main opposition candidate, had 47.7 percent, the…