AFRICA: 21 DECEMBRE 2012 : [Kenya blames terror attacks on Somali militants]

December 21, 2012

[The Kenyan government on Thursday blamed a spate of bomb and grenade attacks in Nairobi in Eastleigh residential estate on Al-Shabaaab militants from Somalia. Nairobi Provincial Commissioner Njoroge Ndirangu told a news conference in Nairobi that so far the police are holding…

AFRICA : 18 DECEMBRE 2012 : [A la Une : le deuxième anniversaire de la révolution du jasmin en Tunisie]

December 18, 2012

[« Les Tunisiens ne sont pas contents de la tournure des événements dans leurs pays et ils le montrent, constate le quotidien La Tribune en Algérie. Hier, c’étaient le tour des habitants de Sidi Bouzid, ville contestatrice, d’où est partie l’étincelle du…

AFRICA : 17 DECEMBRE 2012 : [Egypt Islamists Expect Constitution Victory]

December 17, 2012

[The Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt declared a narrow victory in the first round of a hotly contested constitutional referendum, even as activists’ reports of fraud and calls for a rerun renewed the nation’s political impasse. The Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and…

AFRICA : 14 DECEMBRE 2012 : [Procès Lumumba : la famille sollicite l’aide de Kinshasa]

December 14, 2012

[La famille du premier Premier ministre congolais Patrice Emery Lumumba, assassiné en 1961, souhaite que le gouvernement de Kinshasa l’appuie dans le procès qui pourrait avoir lieu en Belgique, a affirmé jeudi l’un de ses fils, Roland Lumumba, à la radio onusienne…

AFRICA : 11 DECEMBRE 2012 : [Arrêté par l’armée, le Premier ministre malien démissionne]

December 11, 2012

[Le Premier ministre du Mali, Cheick Modibo Diarra, a annoncé mardi matin sa démission quelques heures après avoir été arrêté par des soldats à Bamako alors qu’il avait prévu de se rendre en France.Cet incident politique risque de compliquer les efforts actuellement…

AFRICA : 10 DECEMBRE 2012 : [Ghana: President Mahama Wins Ghana Election]

December 10, 2012

[Ghana’s incumbent president, John Dramani Mahama, has secured a first round victory in an election which was extended because of the malfunctioning of voter-identification machines.Mahama had over 50 percent of votes cast from the country’s 275 constituencies, according to results declared by…

AFRICA : 04 DÉCEMBRE 2012 : [Rwandans React to UK Aid Freeze]

December 4, 2012

[British government’s recent decision to freeze its financial support to Rwanda has sparked concerns among Rwandans, with many criticising the move as ill-conceived. British International Development Secretary, Justine Greening, last week, announced that she was withholding the next tranche of aid totalling…

AFRICA:03 DECEMBRE 2012:[South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight; AIDS-related deaths drop by 32 percent]

December 3, 2012

[In the early `90s when South Africa’s Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died. Two decades later the clinic is the biggest…