[A wave of deadly night-time raids and revenge attacks involving two ethnic groups in Kenya has seen more than 100 people brutally killed in recent weeks.Men, women and children have been murdered, variously by bullets, machetes and spears, while some were burned alive in mud-brick huts in attacks across south east Kenya.The Kenya Red Cross…
[Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and the United States sent warships toward Libya, where the U.S. ambassador was killed in related violence this week.In Libya, authorities said they had made four arrests in the investigation into the attack that…
[MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hassan Sheik Mohamud, a moderate political activist and academic, took on one of the world’s most challenging political posts on Monday after members of Somalia’s newly created Parliament elected him the country’s next president.Mr. Mohamud’s election, held in a highly fortified police academy, was heralded as a significant step forward for a…
[Four African countries have been tasked by regional governments in the Great Lakes region to form a force of 4,000 troops to fight the M23 rebel group in DR Congo. Kenya, Tanzania, Angola and DR Congo will deploy the force under an African Union mandate in the troubled eastern part of DR Congo.The International…
[The election victory was no landslide but the lack of foreign criticism gives Dos Santos enough space to organise a succession on his own terms.The Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola won the general elections with 72% of the vote after spending more than US$75 million on its campaign. The opposition, which took around a…
[Prosecutors provisionally dropped murder charges against the 270 jailed miners who had been accused under an obscure legal doctrine of killing 34 of their own colleagues when the police opened fire on them while engaged in a wildcat strike. The police fired live ammunition into a crowd of about 3,000 platinum miners armed with clubs…
[Kenyan anti-riot police fired teargas at stone-throwing youths in the port city of Mombasa on Tuesday in a new outburst of violence a day after the murder of a Muslim cleric led to riots that left one person dead.Youths barricaded several streets with burning tires in the predominantly Muslim Majengo neighborhood, before armed police dispersed…
[Authorities accuse 37 men and women of involvement in criminal acts against compatriots in southwestern African nation.Three dozen suspected Chinese gangsters accused of criminal acts against compatriots in Angola, have arrived in Beijing under police guard, according to a state media report.] ———————————————————————————————- Lire suite du document : bur27082012.doc …
[Le premier ministre éthiopien Meles Zenawi, mort lundi soir à 57 ans, probablement dans un hôpital de Bruxelles, avait une ambition: que l’on se souvienne de lui comme l’homme qui a construit l’Éthiopie moderne. Il était l’un des poids lourds de la politique en Afrique.] Lire la suite : Africa: 21 aout 2012 [ Meles…
[Southern African leaders on Saturday slammed Rwanda for supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a threat to regional stability and urged Kigali to immediately stop its “interference”. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) resolved to send a mission to Rwanda as it wrapped up a two day annual summit in the Mozambican…
