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Hike in world food prices sparks deadly riots in Africa
African governments are nervously confronting a mounting wave of often deadly social unrest caused by the soaring cost of food and fuel. Forty people died during price riots in…
Mali opposition challenges election result
Mali’s opposition vowed on Tuesday to challenge a weekend election that appears to have handed a new five-year mandate to incumbent President Amadou Toumani Touré. ”We will take…
Malians vote for new leader
Malians went to the polls on Sunday in presidential elections expected to hand the incumbent a second five-year term and boost the West African country’s democratic credentials.…
Guinea troops pull down street barricades
Guinea’s military ordered the country to go back to work as it removed barricades from the streets on Sunday following the lifting of martial law. Guinea’s usually obedient…
Guinea unions call end to fatal strike
Guinean unions have called off a crippling 18-day strike in which 59 people died after securing a deal with embattled President Lasana Conte that will put a prime minister at the…
West Africa new hub for drug-trafficking networks
West Africa has become an increasingly important transit hub for trafficking cocaine to Europe. The ”tightening of border controls in the Netherlands and in Spain … forced South…
Johnson-Sirleaf’s standing boosted by Taylor’s arrest
Just months after winning Liberia’s presidential election, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has scored a masterstroke at the start of her mandate by ably negotiating the transfer of Charles…
African farmers sow cotton to harvest deficits
Subsidies paid to cotton producers, especially in the United States, prompted an impassioned plea for a fairer deal on trade for Africa at a weekend Franco-African summit, where…