• Sudan / Chad: The Honeymoon

    The rebel leaders, who set up their bases on both sides of the border between Chad and Sudan, have to pay back a great burden of the rapprochement between Khartoum and N’djamena.

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  • Rwanda: Opponents in turmoil

    In Rwanda, the presidential election is on August the 9th, and assumptions are giving already the current President Paul Kagamé a score of at least 95% of the votes, transcending though the 2003 results, centred around 90%.

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  • Guinea-Bissau: The narco-state in the “crosshair”

    On the 25th of June, the president of Guinea-Bissau, Malam Bacai, appointed General Antonio Indjai as the armed forces commanding officer.

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  • Mali: Creation of a new political party

    The actual President’s Supporters have created on July 17, 2010 in Bamako, a new political Party for Economic Development and Solidarity (PDES), two years ahead from the next presidential elections. The current Head of State, Amadou Toumani...

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  • Guinea: Arrests, dismissals and rehabilitation

    A dozen of army officers, considered close to former president, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, were arrested by the presidential security. They would be charged with “treason and inciting rebellion against the established power”.

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  • Rwanda: Zapatero forced not to appear with Paul Kagame

    The presence of Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Spain has brought back memories of the atrocities where members of the actual regime were charged of “genocide” causing a furore in Spain. That brought Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero...

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  • South Africa: Violence on immigrants

    The fever of the World Cup 2010 that South Africa has organized and successfully ended, is hardly settling when the violence sparkled again in the rainbow country: in fact, dozens of immigrants took refuge in police stations,...

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  • Somalia: The peacekeeping contingent might rise to 20,000

    The size of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will be increased from 4,300 to 20,000 troops, Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, has announced at a news conference.

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  • Nigeria: Religion, the proxy war of the politics

    A Wukari, young Christians have demolished a mosque under construction, triggering the reaction of young Muslims who, in turn, have ransacked the church next door.

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  • Rwanda: An opposition leader found dead

    The Democratic Green Party, created a year ago, is mostly composed by defectors from the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the ruling party in Rwanda since 1994.

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