AFRICA: 09 DECEMBRE 2011 [South Africa: Demonstrators at UN climate change assaulted as they try to engage Zuma]

December 9, 2011

[As tension rose with a day to go before negotiators at the Durban Climate Change Conference reach agreement on critical issues, violence broke out here Thursday when peaceful civil society demonstrators were attacked during a meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma….

AFRICA: 06 DECEMBRE 2011 [Africa takes charge at climate talks]

December 6, 2011

[Africa has changed “the ball game” after a week of vassalage, by demanding an ambitious second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, effective action under the Bali Action Plan and scaled-up “start-up” finance ahead of the high-level international ministerial segment of the…

AFRICA: 05 DECEMBRE 2011 [Africa: Congo-Kinshasa Bishops Sound Alarm As Vote Tensions Build]

December 5, 2011

[Catholic bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo issued a dire warning Sunday about its political situation as vote results continued trickling in after veiled opposition threats of violence.]                   BURUNDI :   Burundi: Tueries…

AFRICA: 28 NOVEMBRE 2011 [Polls open in Congo’s election already marred by a weekend of violence]

November 28, 2011

[Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country’s peace or drag Congo back into conflict]                   BURUNDI :    …

AFRICA: 22 NOVEMBRE 2011 [South Africa’s Tutu asks lawmakers to reject secrecy bill in vote later Tuesday]

November 22, 2011

[Anti-apartheid veteran Desmond Tutu made a last-minute appeal to lawmakers to reject a bill they are to vote on Tuesday, which he calls an “insulting” attempt to roll back democracy in South Africa.]                  …

AFRICA: 21 NOVEMBRE 2011 [Quinze manifestants tués en Egypte à quelques jours des élections]

November 21, 2011

  [A huit jours du premier scrutin législatif depuis le départ de Hosni Moubarak, la tension monte en Egypte entre le gouvernement de transition et la rue.]         BURUNDI :   Un délégation de la Conférence consultative politique du peuple…