[Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.]…

[When the pictures first came out of Africa last summer, aid agencies and government officials said unless emergency relief came fast, many people would begin dying of hunger.]                   BURUNDI :   Une loi supprimant…

[Nigeria’s powerful labor unions suspended a strike on Monday that had paralyzed Africa’s third-largest economy for more than a week, after President Goodluck Jonathan offered to partially reinstate a contentious subsidy for motor fuel.]                …

[The UN in Somalia says tens of thousands of people will have died of starvation by the time the famine in the Horn of Africa ends.]                   BURUNDI :            …

[South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union when it allowed NATO’s bombing campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. ]                   BURUNDI :…

[Rwanda said on Wednesday a French investigation that reportedly cleared President Paul Kagame of sparking the 1994 Rwandan genocide would help repair relations between the two countries and could boost trade] BURUNDI :     Actualité Afrique : Intempéries au Burundi : plus…

[Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan faces the biggest battle of his political career as a general strike to protest the end of fuel subsidies entered its second day amid attacks by Islamic militants in the north.]              …

[It was on the 8th of January 1912 when a broad spectrum of African people comprising representatives of people’s and church organisations and other prominent individuals gathered in Bloem-fontein, South Africa, with the chief aim of uniting and bringing all Africans together…