[POPE Benedict XVI’s resignation has sparked calls for his successor to come from Africa, home to the world’s fastest-growing population and the front line of key issues facing the Roman Catholic Church. Around 15 per cent of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics…

[Après les violences des derniers jours à la suite de l’assassinat de l’opposant Chokri Belaïd, le calme est revenu. Mais la crise politique semble s’accentuer. Les interrogations se multiplient sur un éventuel remaniement, promis par le chef du gouvernement. La coalition au…

[Number-three leader of Ansar al-Dine detained near the Algerian border, according to security sources. The number-three leader of the armed group that controlled Timbuktu in northern Mali until last week, Mohamed Moussa Ag Mouhamed, has been arrested near the Algerian border, sources…

[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…

[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…

[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,…

[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…

[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…

[« 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…

[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…