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China-Africa summit seeks to boost trade and 'brotherhood' Cairo (AFP) Nov 5, 2009 
Leaders from China and Africa start a three day summit on Sunday that will again throw the spotlight on Beijing's strategic sweep for energy, minerals and political influence in the continent. China has over the past decade paid for dams, power stations, football stadiums across Africa and scooped up copper, oil and other fuel for its breakneck economic expansion from Algeria to Zimbabwe. ... read moreChinese workers struggle to adjust to Algerian life 
Algiers (AFP) Nov 5, 2009More than 25,000 Chinese work on huge housing projects and cross-country highways in Algeria, but few have any deep contacts with the local population. For more than a decade tens of thousands of Chinese workers have flowed into Algeria, one of the many African nations that have embraced trade and closer political links with China that will be strengthened at a China-Africa summit in Egypt ... more
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Burkina leader seeks way out of crisis after Guinea massacre
Ouagadougou (AFP) Nov 3, 2009Burkina Faso's president, mediating in Guinea after a massacre in September, on Tuesday called on the opposition, labour unions and civil society to devise an alternative to the junta. "President (Blaise) Compaore asked us to make concrete proposals for the transition, notably setting up another organ (in place of the military junta) to run the transition, the electoral process and condition ... more DR Congo troops killed 500 civilians since March: HRW 
Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 2, 2009Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers have "deliberately killed" more than 500 civilians since March during an offensive targeting rebels in the country's east, Human Rights Watch said Monday. "Human Rights Watch conducted 21 fact-finding missions in North and South Kivu from January to October 2009, and found that Congolese army soldiers had deliberately killed at least 505 civilians from ... more African Union, US slap sanctions on Guinea junta 
Abuja (AFP) Oct 30, 2009African leaders and the United States have joined the European Union in imposing fresh sanctions on Guinea's military rulers after last month's massacre of scores of opposition supporters. Heads of states who sit on the African Union Peace and Security Council decided "to take all the necessary measures towards the implementation of targeted sanctions including denial of visas, travel restri ... more UN renews arms, diamond embargo on Ivory Coast 
United Nations (AFP) Oct 29, 2009The UN Security Council Thursday renewed for a year an arms and diamond embargo on Ivory Coast, hoping it can be lifted after free and fair elections are held in the divided nation. The resolution, identical to last year's, passed by unanimous vote in the 15-member council. First imposed in 2005, the embargo on weapons and on trade in rough diamonds from the west African nation now extends ... more |
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Mali authorities launch anti-weapons drive
Kidal, Mali (AFP) Oct 25, 2009Authorities in Mali launched a campaign Sunday to encourage Tuareg rebel fighters to give up their weapons some two weeks after agreeing a peace deal to end their struggle for autonomy for the country's northern Kidal region. "Everyone thinks they must carry a weapon in order to feel safe... we must first explain to people that it is weapons that create insecurity," said Kidal governor ... more EU agrees arms embargo, sanctions, on Guinea junta
Brussels (AFP) Oct 21, 2009Guinea's military junta faces an arms embargo and sanctions against its leaders, following agreement on Wednesday by European Union member states. The decision comes some three weeks after a massacre at an opposition rally in the capital Conakry where more than 150 people were killed according to United Nations estimates. "The council has decided to adopt measures targeting the members ... more Libya fuels North African 'arms race'
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Oct 20, 2009 Libya's reported intention to buy 20 Sukhoi attack jets in a $1 billion weapons deal with Russia underlines a pattern of sizable military acquisitions by North African states that some analysts view as a regional arms race. Russia's Interfax news agency reported Monday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Tripoli planned to purchase 12-15 Sukhoi Su-35 multirole fighters, four Su-30s ... more Guinea pledges to cooperate with UN inquiry
Conakry (AFP) Oct 19, 2009Guinea's isolated military junta has pledged to cooperate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's massacre of opposition demonstrators, the UN official leading the probe said Monday. UN envoy Haile Menkerios was speaking after talks in Conakry with top junta officials, including military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara and Prime Minister Kabine Komara. "The prime minister and the ... more |
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