The Ivorian government has handed youth leader Charles Ble Goude over to the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said armed conflicts pose the principal threat to Africa’s future development.
At least four people were killed in an exchange of fire between soldiers and unidentified gunmen at an army checkpoint in southern Cote d’Ivoire.
A robust growth forecast for the West African Economic and Monetary Union will likely be dampened by new political turmoil in the region.
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/ 7 September 2009
African leaders will step up calls on Monday for an end to Western sanctions against Zimbabwe and urge SA to plead Harare’s cause within the G20.
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/ 29 January 2009
Ugandan LRA rebels killed more than 100 people in a village in DRC in an apparent reprisal for army operations against them, the UN says.
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/ 19 January 2009
Honore Tadri was in Faradje on Christmas Day when about 150 armed men surrounded the market square where most of the town’s residents had gathered.
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/ 18 January 2009
A pledge by DRC rebels to abandon a four-year insurgency marks a major step towards ending more than a decade of conflict in the east of the country.
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/ 16 January 2009
Rebels have killed 567 people and displaced 115 000 in northeast DRC’s Oriental province since September, the UN refugee agency said on Friday.
Poachers in the DRC have killed a fifth of the elephants in Africa’s oldest national park this year, the park’s director said on Friday.