The candidate Omar Hassan Ahmed al Bashir has won”, said president of the national electoral commission, Abel Alier, stating that he had obtained 68% of the vote.He has won the first multiparty presidential election held in Sudan.

John Edward Phillips, Ph.D. (African Historical and Cultural Studies Studies), USA Historian and holds Ph.D. (History) University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Professor, Hirosaki University in Japan since 2001. Among his publication we mention :...

17 civilians were killed last weekend and 11 others wounded in armed clashes between Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), the military arm of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), and Rizeigat tribe in South Darfur State in...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has visted last week to Uganda to among others ask for Uganda’ s support to lobby the United Nations Security Council not to impose sanctions on Tehran over its uranium enrichment program.Ugandan President...

The Moroccan Association for Asia Studies The Afro-Asia Forum for Development and Human Security The African Bulletin Forum and the Institute of African Studies, the University Mohammed V With the Collaboration of CDG institute And Japan Foundation...

Factions in the all powerful ruling People’s Democratic Party (P.D.P) are challenging the rule of the acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, who took over in February from President Umaru Yar’Adua, a northern Nigerian deemed too ill to rule...

A month and a half from the Africa-France Summit (Nice, May 31-June 1), and preparations are well underway. Paris has sent invitations to fifty-one heads of State to attend the Nice Summit at the end of May....

The Niger government has confirmed in a statement the kidnapping of two foreigners, one French citizen and one Algerian, by an “armed group” in the border region of Mali and Algeria to the west of the town...

United Nations and Chadian officials agreed on a major initial reduction of peacekeepers there after the Government had called for the withdrawal of the UN mission’s military component.

The scenario is far from being unrealistic: in June 2008, a neighboring country invades the small Republic of Djibouti, located in a strategic gateway to the Red Sea and was moving towards the capital. This “Aggression” was...