[The European Union on Sunday urged Gambia to honour a freeze on the death penalty after the tiny west African nation’s supreme court upheld death sentences against seven officials for treason. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh last month announced a temporary halt to…

[Rwanda will replace South Africa on the UN Security Council when the latter relinquishes its non-permanent seat at the end of the year. Rwanda, who had the backing of the African Union, joins Australia, South Korea, Luxembourg and Finland for two years…

[The First Pan African Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management in African National Parks was opened Monday this week in northern Tanzania’s tourist city of Arusha, with commitments from African governments to develop responsible tourism. UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary General Dr….

[Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma begins a four-year tenure as the head of the African Union’s executive arm  .    Under Dr Ping, the AU made some progress especially in Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire and in the Sudan’s protracted peace negotiations .Former South African Home Affairs minister…

[Du 12 au 14 octobre, la capitale congolaise accueille le 14e sommet de la francophonie.François Hollande, attendu à Kinshasa après une étape aujourd’hui à Dakar, effectue son premier déplacement officiel en Afrique.Jusqu’au dernier moment, la ville s’est préparée à cet événement, diversement…

[Today, Uganda – the Pearl of Africa – becomes the third of the five East African Community (EAC) nations to mark 50 years of its independence. Rwanda and Burundi clocked 50 three months back on July 1, and now Uganda has followed…

[No peace is to be found on Rustenburg’s platinum belt – tensions are rising at Amplats, where a worker was shot dead by police last week and 12,000 workers got sacked. Strikers said they’d die before allowing new labour on site, while…

[France announced Thursday it will circulate a draft U.N. resolution aimed at stepping up pressure on Mali’s government and its West African neighbors to agree quickly on a workable military plan to oust Islamic militants who seized the north and are turning…

[Les soldats somaliens et ceux de lUnion africaine (UA) sont entrés lundi dans Kismayo, dans le sud-est de la Somalie, désertée par les islamistes shebab depuis plus de 48 heures. Selon les témoignages des habitants, les premiers soldats du contingent kényan de…

[Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined hands with the leaders of Rwanda and Congo at a high-level meeting aimed at ending the crisis in eastern Congo but the attempt at unity was short-lived. The two presidents remained deeply at odds over responsibility for the…