[South Africa’s attempt to flex its foreign policy muscle by capturing the AU’s top post may be thwarted by nations resentful of its already dominant role on the continent.] BURUNDI :   Burundi : les partis politiques doivent se conformer à la nouvelle…

[The 18th African Union (AU) meeting in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, which officially opened last Monday, has assigned Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills major roles during the session of heads of State and Government.]            …

[A leading American newspaper says African companies are under mounting pressure from Washington to reduce commercial ties with Iran as part of the growing American global push to squeeze Tehran.]                   BURUNDI :   Burundi…

[Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.]…

[When the pictures first came out of Africa last summer, aid agencies and government officials said unless emergency relief came fast, many people would begin dying of hunger.]                   BURUNDI :   Une loi supprimant…

[Nigeria’s powerful labor unions suspended a strike on Monday that had paralyzed Africa’s third-largest economy for more than a week, after President Goodluck Jonathan offered to partially reinstate a contentious subsidy for motor fuel.]                …

[The UN in Somalia says tens of thousands of people will have died of starvation by the time the famine in the Horn of Africa ends.]                   BURUNDI :            …

[South African President Jacob Zuma told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that it “completely ignored” the African Union when it allowed NATO’s bombing campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. ]                   BURUNDI :…

[Rwanda said on Wednesday a French investigation that reportedly cleared President Paul Kagame of sparking the 1994 Rwandan genocide would help repair relations between the two countries and could boost trade] BURUNDI :     Actualité Afrique : Intempéries au Burundi : plus…

[Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan faces the biggest battle of his political career as a general strike to protest the end of fuel subsidies entered its second day amid attacks by Islamic militants in the north.]              …