[African leaders on Saturday met for talks on security issues as fresh violence in Mali has sparked what rights groups say is the Sahel region’s worst human rights crisis in 20 years.]                   BURUNDI :…

[France is supportive of South Africa’s nuclear energy plans, assures French Foreign Ministry secretary-general Pierre Sellal. The European power is a leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. (Secretary-general is equivalent to a director-general in South Africa.)]        …

[The Sudan armed forces launched an aerial bombardment within territories of South Sudan most specifically on the town of Jau in Pariang County of Unity State, said the commissioner over phone interview with The Citizen from the County headquarters]      …

[Trois personnes, dont Augustin Katumba Mwanke, considéré comme l’éminence grise du président de la République démocratique du Congo et deux membres d’équipage américains, sont mortes dimanche dans l’accident de leur avion à Bukavu (est), a-t-on appris de source aéroportuaire.]      …

[The Somali militant group al-Shabab has formally joined al-Qaida, according to a video translation released Thursday of a message from al-Qaida’s leader.]                   BURUNDI :   Burundi : la production caféicole en baisse de plus…

[Il s’agit de Monsieur Issa Ngendakumana, nommé ministre à la Présidence chargé de la bonne gouvernance et de la privatisation en remplacement de Jean Baptiste Gahimbare.  Monsieur Tabu Abdallah Manirakiza est nommé ministre des finances et de la planification du développement en…

[While Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution calling for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down, South Africa voted for the measure. But it voices qualms on foreign intervention.]                   BURUNDI :   Burundi…

[After four rounds of voting, incumbent chairman Jean Ping failed to get two-thirds majority, after South Africa influenced countries from Central Africa such as Equatorial Guinea, Congo Brazzaville and Chad, plus French-speaking Mali, to support Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, South Africa’s former foreign…

[Two leading opposition candidates in Senegal have said they will start campaigning on Sunday to dislodge President Abdoulaye Wade from power.  Others remain committed to repealing his candidacy.  One analyst doubts the divided opposition will succeed on either front.]      …

[Only 26 of the 54 member states of the African Union have so far ratified the protocol setting up the African Court on Human and People’s Rights, according to the President of the Court, Gerard Niyungeko]            …