AFRICA: 06 FEVRIER 2012 [An undecided AU hands Jean Ping 6 more months]
February 6, 2012[After four rounds of voting, incumbent chairman Jean Ping failed to get two-thirds majority, after South Africa influenced countries from Central Africa such as Equatorial Guinea, Congo Brazzaville and Chad, plus French-speaking Mali, to support Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, South Africa’s former foreign…
Burundi: Vers la suppression des quota ethniques.
January 31, 2012Le gouvernement du Burundi s’apprête à réformer sa Constitution dite d'"Arusha". Beaucoup de Barundi espèrent que, notamment, les gênantes dispositions fixant quotas ethniques (hutu/tutsi) dans les institutions, datant des Accords d’Arusha, soient abandonées. La population burundaise ne fait pas mystère de son…