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Africa RSS FeedsSudan: Bashir Warns of War Over Oil Dispute - [Sudan Tribune] Khartoum - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir highlighted the unprecedented level of tensions with the newly established state of South Sudan by saying that war is now a possibility....Feed Source: allafrica.com South Sudan: New Clashes Blight Peace Talks - [Sudan Tribune]
Juba/Bentui -
On Thursday the Unity state minster for information and communication, Gideon Gatpan, said 15 people were killed in Mayiandit in a coordinated attack by Unity state forces who came on machine-gun mounted vehicles.... South Africa: Ruling Party Youth Leaders to Appeal Suspensions - [SAPA]
Johannesburg -
Convictions handed down by the National Disciplinary Committee to ANC Youth League leaders were upheld by an appeals committee on Saturday.... Somalia: Kenyan Jets Attack Al-Shabaab Villages - [Shabelle]
Badhahde -
Kenyan jets have shelled a town once again in less than a week a rebel-held towns in Lower Jubba region of southwestern Somalia, causing heavy loss of Al-shabab fighters, residents said on Saturday.... Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Stall Vote on New Constitution - [Financial Gazette]
Harare -
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the constitutional plebiscite.... Liberia: No Time for Complacency in HIV Fight - [allAfrica.com]
Monrovia -
Smartly seated behind his computer, crunching out numbers and making calls to colleagues, Anthony*, a 38-year-old father of three, is amongst those looking to check the spread of HIV in Liberia. He received confirmation of his own positive status after testing in 2007.... Congo-Kinshasa: New Atrocities Reported Against Displaced Civilians - [UN News]
The United Nations refugee agency said today it is alarmed by recent reports that displaced people have been tortured and killed in their camps by armed elements in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).... Egypt: PM Meets Army Chief Over Port Said Deaths - [Aswat Masriya]
Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the ruling military council, discusses the repercussions of Port Said stadium events with Prime Minister Kamal Al-Ganzouri in a meeting on Saturday.... Kenya: 26 Die in Road Accident - [Capital FM]
Kisumu -
At least 26 people are dead following a grisly road accident that occurred on Friday night on the busy Kisumu-Kakamega highway at the Mamboleo black spot.... Egypt: More Clashes Between Protesters, Army - [Aswat Masriya]
Clashes between security forces and protesters were renewed intermittently in Mansour street near Tahrir square. A number of injured people were taken to field hospitals.... Sudan: U.S. Condemns Govt Military Bombing in South Kordofan - [Sudan Tribune]
Khartoum -
The US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has strongly condemned the bombing of a school in Sudan's southern region of South Kordofan by the country's military forces.... Zimbabwe: Civil Society's African Union Bid Flops - [Financial Gazette]
ZIMBABWE'S vocal civil society which shadowed the just-ended African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, returned empty handed from its mission early this week.... South Sudan: Cattle Raid Led to 78 Deaths - [UN News]
The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern over a cattle raid in a northern state of South Sudan earlier this week, which led to 78 deaths and numerous injuries among civilians, most of whom were women and children.... West Africa: Yellow Fever Outbreaks Hit Cameroon and Ghana - [UN News]
The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.... Sudan: Juba Has Khartoum Over a Barrel - [Af Conf]
Few outside the Juba government had expected it to start shutting down oil production on 22 January. Warnings from the Government of South Sudan had been widely seen as brinkmanship.... Somalia: Famine Over, Says UN - [UN News]
The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help people resume normal lives.... Africa: Study - Malaria Death Toll Nearly Twice the Official Count, Kills Many Adults - [KPLU]
A new global estimate of malaria deaths by researchers in Seattle has revealed the death toll is much greater than most experts had thought -- and is not, as had been universally assumed, mostly a killer of children.... Africa: Malaria Kills Nearly Twice as Many People Than Previously Thought - [Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation]
Washington, DC -
Despite assumptions that mainly young children die from the disease, 42% of 1.2 million deaths occur in older children and adults.... Uganda: The LRA - Not Yet a Spent Force - [IRIN]
Johannesburg -
The belief that the end is nigh for Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - a small but ruthless transnational armed group operating in four African states - underestimates its resilience and overestimates the unity and capability of the forces ranged against it, say analysts.... Senegal: Youth On the Streets for Change - [RNW Africa]
Dakar -
"I never thought Senegal would get to a stage when the police would beat us and shoot at us just because we are asking the president to leave power. I never thought that some would die in a brutal way for merely exercising their democratic right to protest," says a 24-year-old Senegalese named Lemzo. He is a former street trader responding to reports that a student had just been run over by a police truck.... Libya: Ex-Ambassador to France Tortured, Says Human Rights Group - [RFI]
US-based Human Rights Watch says Libya's ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, died from possible torture less than 24 hours after he was taken into custody by a Tripoli-based militia on 19 January.... Cote d'Ivoire: UN Mission to Decide On Election Certification Next Week - [UN News]
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West African country near the end of last year.... Mali: Seydou Keita, Daniel Cousin Speak Ahead of Mali-Gabon Match - [RFI]
It will be a tale of three warhorses on Sunday when Gabon take on Mali in the quarter final of the Africa Cup of Nations.... Zambia: Critiquing the Critique On China in Zambia - [Fahamu]
In December, Pambazuka News carried an article that critiqued a Human Rights Watch report that had exposed labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia. Here, Human Rights Watch responds to that critique.... Zimbabwe: Gono Warns of Economic Slowdown - [Financial Gazette]
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, has warned that the country's economic recovery may slow down on the back of knock-on effects from the Eurozone debt crisis and the continuing economic turmoil in the United States.... Libya: Gaddafi's Daughter Calls for War Crime Probe - [Independent]
Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the late Libyan dictator, has officially petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the circumstances under which her father Col. Muammar Al-Gaddafi and brother Mutassim were killed by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC), assisted by NATO allies in October 2011; which she said amounted to a war crime.... Angola: CNN Accepts Ads From Corrupt Regime - [Fahamu]
The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president's children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his protégés plunder the country.... Senegal: President Wade v. the People - [Fahamu]
The deadly violence that has broken out in Senegal seems surreal even to the most seasoned analysts of the West African nation's political evolution. Angry Senegalese believe President Wade has executed a coup to stay in power.... Mozambique: UN Agency Begins Food Distribution to Flood Victims - [UN News]
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing rations in Mozambique, where an estimated 70,000 people are in urgent need of assistance after the country was pounded by two tropical storms.... Egypt: Security Head Fired After 74 Killed in Soccer Violence - [CISA]
Port Said -
The Egyptian government sacked the head of security in the northern city of Port Said after at least 74 people were killed and hundreds more injured in clashes between rival fans following a football match in the city.... Copyright © 2012, Ezwebgroup's Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |