The French army took over Côte d’Ivoire’s main airport on Sunday as the battle for Abidjan dragged into a fourth day.
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/ 19 January 2010
Guinea is entering a delicate transition due to end within six months, with the first democratic presidential elections since 1958.
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/ 1 December 2009
Kidnapping has become a lucrative business for al-Qaeda’s north African branch, experts said on Tuesday.
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/ 12 October 2009
Africa will demand billions of dollars in compensation from polluting nations at a UN climate summit for the harm caused by global warming.
The Guinean army that turned a peaceful demonstration into a bloodbath is powerful and difficult to reform while it holds power, analysts say.
Per capita income in Africa will fall in 2009 for the first time in 15 years, the head of the African Development Bank warned on Tuesday.
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/ 22 October 2008
Guinea’s opposition leaders have slammed the electoral commission’s decision to postpone the country’s first free elections since independence.
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/ 23 November 2007
Recent violent unrest over soaring food prices in several West African nations points to new signs of trouble on a continent where nearly half the people live on a dollar a day, experts warn. After Mauritania and Morocco, Senegal this week was the latest country hit by violent protests.
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi won Mauritania’s historic presidential election with 52,85% of the vote, the interior minister said on Monday. Ould Abdallahi, who was backed by supporters of Mauritania’s ousted dictator Maaouiya Ould Taya and who has vowed to become a ”reassuring president”, beat Ahmed Ould Daddah in the second-round run-off of the poll.
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/ 22 February 2007
After a historic change of power in 2000, Senegal, one of Africa’s oldest democracies, elects a new president on Sunday. Voters have a simple choice: to give a new mandate to incumbent 80-year-old Abdoulaye Wade, who promised much but disappointed some, or to turn the page with one of the 14 other candidates.