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/ 22 November 2008
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s battered government has little choice but to open unpopular talks with dissident General Laurent Nkunda.
The road that snakes past stalls piled with bananas, charcoal and dried fish through Fengolo village in western Côte d’Ivoire looks peaceful.
Sudan’s president, accused of genocide in Darfur by the West, says rich countries are bullying the planet’s poorest states.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday he was ”fairly satisfied” with talks with President Robert Mugabe’s party.
Thousands of civilians fled clashes between Sudan’s former north-south civil war foes in the oil-rich central town of Abyei on Thursday. The clashes, sparked by a local dispute, highlight the tension in an area claimed by both Khartoum and South Sudan. More than three years after a 2005 peace deal, they have not agreed on borders or a local government for the region.
It was meant to be a day of celebration and festivities, marking the end of one of Africa’s longest and most brutal wars. In the end, amid allegations of stolen wads of cash, after an undelivered letter from a president to the rebels and the sacking of the main negotiator, it collapsed into farce.
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/ 29 February 2008
After several years of tortuous talks Ugandan rebel negotiators have returned to their jungle base to consult their mystic leader days before they are due to sign a peace deal that will put an end to one of Africa’s longest conflicts. The Lord’s Resistance Army rebels and government negotiators signed a flurry of accords recently and are expected to conclude a final peace deal at UN-backed talks in Southern Sudan early in March.
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/ 28 January 2008
Protests erupted in western Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after scores died in ethnic violence, complicating mediation efforts by former United Nations boss Kofi Annan. In the normally peaceful Rift Valley town of Nakuru, a mortuary worker said on Monday that 64 corpses were lying in the morgue.
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/ 28 January 2008
One of the churchmen was lucky; the bullet only ripped through his shirtsleeve, leaving him with little more than a graze. The other, seated by his side, was less fortunate; the same bullet tore into his back. ”We were just chatting and then these guys [the police] came and started shooting,” said Pastor Isaac Mujete as he comforted colleague Francis Ivayo, who lay writhing in pain in Masaba hospital.
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/ 17 September 2007
Before the protest march, leaflets were scattered around town claiming Libyan troops had entered Niger to annex the country’s oil and land while French business people were busy looting the country of its meagre wealth. And when hundreds of Nigeriens took to the streets of their capital recently, they did more than accuse neighbouring Libya of backing rebels and call for Areva, a French nuclear firm mining uranium in the north of the country, to leave.