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Africa
In 1998 in the heart of Africa, in the area known as the Great Lakes Region,
a devastating war broke out. The war has lasted four years and killed
almost 3 million people. It is largely ignored by the US media and the
international community. To learn more, read the three part installment
highlighting the cause, the
breakout and the
forces in place that keep the war going.
To help, go to the 5 Minutes page.
What's Happening Now?
Africa Timeline:
9-2005
8-2005
 | August 31:Bandits
hit vital aid convoys in Darfur -UNICEF |
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Witnessing
Genocide In Sudan |
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Burundi's new president forms the country's
first government since the end of the 12-year civil war. |
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Uganda asks auditors Ernst and Young to oversee
the management of funds for fighting Aids after grant cuts. |
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Experts are to recommend artesunate for malaria
after a study found it can save more lives than current therapy. |
| August 30:
Thousands who confessed to involvement in the
1994 Rwandan genocide make their way home. |
| August 28:US
officials announce agents raided the US home of Nigerian Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar in Maryland. |
| August 27:
Former Hutu rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza is
inaugurated as Burundi's new president. |
| August 25:
Sudan's army and rebels accuse each other of
staging attacks in Darfur, days after peacekeepers said security had improved. |
| August 24:Uganda
says it will expel six DR Congo rebels after the UN voices its concern that
they may be setting up an armed group. |
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The "Night Commuters" Uganda's Forgotten
Children of War Since 1986, over
30,000 boys and girls have been abducted in Northern Uganda and forced to
become soldiers, laborers and sex slaves. These children are taken by the
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has waged war against the
Ugandan government for nearly two decades. |
| August 22:Voting
registration begins in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of
planned elections. |
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The UN refugee chief is due to start a 10-day
trip to Sudan and Chad, including a visit to the war-torn region of Darfur. |
| August 21:
A secretly-shot film shows the plight of people
hit by the slum clearances in Zimbabwe, Amnesty International says. |
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Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi invites
President Bush to visit his country, a visiting US senator says |
| August 20:A
Rwandan accused of playing a leading role in the 1994 genocide is transferred
to the Netherlands. |
| August 18:
President Robert Mugabe rejects the appointment
of an African Union envoy to Zimbabwe, the envoy says. |
| August 17:
Eritrea releases 20 tonnes of food held up at a
port over a tax row between the authorities and aid agencies.
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| August 16:
Niger's nomad population faces disaster as up to
70% of their animals have died, says a new report. |
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| August 14:
A Uganda journalist is charged with sedition
after his radio show speculates on the death of John Garang. |
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| August 6:Malnutrition
Is Ravaging Niger's Children |
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Sudan's ex-rebel leader John Garang, who died
weeks after becoming vice-president, is being laid to rest. |
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Ugandan
Leader
Hints at
Foul
Play in
Ex-Rebel's
Air
Crash |
| August 5:
The
53-nation African Union suspends Mauritania until it restores "constitutional
order" after a coup there. |
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Chevron Paid Agents
Who Destroyed Villages The bodies of the dead Nigerian villagers had not
yet grown cold when the Nigerian navy captain presented Chevron with a bill:
15,000 naira, or $165 for responding to "attacks from Opia village against
security agents." |
| August 4:The
UN, the AU and the US condemn a military coup that has ousted the president of
Mauritania. |
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Sudan's new southern chief calls on church
leaders to help stop violence that has left more than 130 people dead. |
| August 3:Devastating
Niger famine: warnings ignored for nine months |
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Riots continue after John Garang's death despite
a curfew in Sudan's capital, with reprisal attacks on southerners. |
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Mauritanian troops seize the state radio and
television station and main routes in the capital, reports say. |
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Mauritania's US-Supported Government Overthrown
A military junta overthrew Mauritania's
US-allied President while he was abroad Wednesday, prompting celebrations in
this oil-rich Islamic nation that looked increasingly to the West amid alleged
threats from al-Qaida linked militants. |
| August 1:
DR Congo: Prominent Human Rights Defender
Assassinated |
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Rioting breaks out in Khartoum following the
death of Sudan's vice-president, former rebel leader John Garang. |
7-2005
| July 31:
Clinton Launches HIV/AIDS Initiative |
| July 30:
US oil firm Occidental is allowed to resume
operations in Libya for the first time in 19 years. |
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Rwanda's authorities begin to free more than
36,000 genocide suspects from its overcrowded jails. |
| July 22:
Zimbabwe's urban slum clearance is disastrous
and must be stopped, a leaked UN report says. |
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A plane carrying food aid lands in Niger, where
some 150,000 children are said to be facing starvation. |
| July 20:
Oil money and US
pension funds flood Sudan despite Darfur genocide
Despite its status as a state sponsor of terrorism and the conflict in Darfur
that Washington has called genocide that keeps U.S. businesses and most
international aid out, Sudan will be awash in revenues: oil money. More
surprisingly, Sudan will also be counting on investments from some Americans -
those whose pension plans invest in companies active in Sudan, mostly in the
oil sector. John Prendergast, an advisor with the International Crisis Group,
said the money coming into the country from oil or other investments is going
into the country's "war machine" and coming out the other side in Darfur or in
repressing the Sudanese people. |
| The
UN's top aid official accuses the international community of neglecting the
food crisis in Niger. |
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The AU peacekeeping commander in Sudan's
war-torn Darfur region says security there has improved significantly. |
| July 18:A
Place Where Women Rule
Ten years ago, a group of women established the
village of Umoja, which means unity in Swahili, on an unwanted field of dry
grasslands. The women said they had been raped and, as a result, abandoned by
their husbands, who claimed they had shamed their community. What started as a
group of homeless women looking for a place of their own became a successful
and happy village. |
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U.S. military to
assist with Darfur deployment |
| July 16:Some
2,000 elite soldiers arrive in northern Kenya to find those responsible for
the massacre of 76 people. |
| July 13:Survivors
tell of gunmen surrounding a primary school in northern Kenya before
massacring pupils and teachers. |
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The UN food agency says pirates must free an aid
ship within 48 hours, or it will impose an embargo. |
| July 12:
At least 30 people in the DRC were herded into
huts and burnt alive, a team of UN peacekeepers says. |
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The shooting dead of a prominent Somali peace
activist by unknown gunmen is condemned by the UN. |
| July 11:Sudan's
president lifts a six-year state of emergency, after former rebel leader John
Garang is sworn in as vice president. |
| July 10:Ex-rebel
John Garang becomes Sudan's vice-president as a new constitution ends 20 years
of civil war. |
| July 7:African
leaders will not be credible unless they speak out about their neighbours'
"wrong policies", the UN chief says. |
| July 6:Niger's
government says it cannot afford to give free food to those hit by a food
crisis, as hundreds flee to Nigeria. |
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D.R. Congo:
Civilians Killed as Army Factions Clash
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| July 5:Initial
results show ex-Hutu FDD rebels are firmly ahead in Burundi's poll - a key
step in efforts to end the civil war. |
| July 4:Hundreds
of Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers go on the rampage after finding one
of their colleagues hacked to death. |
| July 3:Music
stars unite in concerts around the globe to put pressure on political leaders
to tackle poverty in Africa. |
| July 2:UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan says the world's response to the Darfur crisis
has been 'hesitant and uncaring'. |
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The nurse who chose which children would be
admitted into the feeding stations of Ethiopia says she has been haunted for
two decades by her memories. |
| July 1:The
US president proposes doubling aid to Africa over the next five years - if
African leaders commit to reform. |
6-2005
| June 30:DR
Congo's police fire teargas at protesters angry at the failure to hold
elections by 30 June as agreed under a peace deal. |
| June 29:Hungry
for an Alternative |
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Belgium's court finds two Rwandan men guilty of
war crimes and murder during Rwanda's genocide in 1994. |
| June 28:More
money needed for Darfur |
| June 27:Zimbabwe's
Secret Famine |
| June 26:African
reaction to Zimbabwe's evictions is "disappointing", says the EU Commission
head. |
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An Algerian militant wanted in Germany for the
abduction of 32 tourists is sentenced to life in jail by an Algiers court. |
| June 24:Rebels
in north-eastern Sudan say government warplanes have dropped bombs on their
forces. |
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The Netherlands suspends the return of failed
asylum seekers to DR Congo following reports of documents being leaked. |
| June 21:Clashes
break out south of Sudan's main port in the north-east, with heavy casualties
reported. |
| June 20:The
new UN refugee agency chief seeks a new approach to dealing with refugees as
he visits Uganda on Refugee Day. |
| June 17:The
US and UK close their consulates in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, citing
"security fears". |
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The parliament in DR Congo is expected to
approve a six-month postponement of general elections due this month. |
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The parliament in DR Congo is expected to
approve a six-month postponement of general elections due this month. |
| June 16:
Black Church Leaders Embarrass Bush over African
Aid Shortfall |
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Africa needs more than $1bn each year to care
for the millions of orphans on the continent, officials say. |
| June 15:
The UN and US strongly condemn the "forced"
repatriation of several thousand Rwandan Hutus from Burundi. |
| June 14:
A special war crimes court is to open, with
charges against 160 Sudanese from Darfur, a minister says. |
| June 9:
European election observers warn of the
dangerous situation in Ethiopia after 22 protesters are shot dead on
Wednesday. |
| June 8:Anti-Rape
Device Must Be Banned, Say Women |
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On patrol with African Union
troops in Darfur |
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Anti-poverty campaigners say moves by the US and
UK to cancel African debts mark an encouraging start. |
| June 7:Uncover
your eyes |
| June 6:The
International Criminal Court announces its biggest investigation, into alleged
war crimes in Darfur. |
| June 5:Nicholas
Kristof |
A Policy of Rape |
| June 3:The
UK's proposals to write off the debts owed by African countries are facing
opposition from the US. |
| June 2:
D.R. Congo: Gold Fuels Massive Human Rights
Atrocities |
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Bush Once Again Cites 'Genocide' in Darfur |
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World Food Program says 3.5
million people hungry in Darfur |
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Anti-corruption campaigners condemn Nigeria's
senate for refusing to ban the acceptance of "gifts" in its new code of
ethics. |
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An undignified scramble for gold in the eastern
DR Congo is fuelling violence and conflict, a new report says. |
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June 1:
Sudan's biggest opposition party says it will
boycott the power-sharing government due to take office in July. |
5-2005
| May 31:Day
141 of Bush's Silence |
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State-led murder and rape of
villagers in Darfur uncovered |
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MSF officials held over Darfur
report |
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May 30:The
UK cancels (£5m) $10m of funding to Uganda, because it feels not enough has
been done to establish fair multi-party politics. |
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A woman who has spent 12 years caring for
children in Burundi is given one of the UN's top awards. |
| May 29:UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for rapid action in Darfur, after he makes
a "heart-wrenching" visit there. |
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Bulgarian's president visits Libyan HIV
children, as he tries to save Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting them. |
| May 28:The
UN warns that the situation of refugees in Rwanda is rapidly deteriorating due
to a funding crisis. |
| May 27:Donors
pledge nearly $300 million for Darfur force |
| May 24:Sudanese
security forces surround an illegal settlement in Khartoum and arrest scores
of southerners. |
| May 22:The
CIA and Sudan Genocide |
| May 20:The
Congo town at the centre of an outbreak of the Ebola virus is put in
quarantine to stop it spreading, health officials say. |
| May 18:
At least two people are killed during riots in
the DR Congo diamond capital, Mbuji Mayi, over the prospect of delayed
elections. |
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Almost a third of deaths in South Africa are
caused by Aids, according to a leaked report. |
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The Mournful Math of Darfur: The Dead Don't Add
Up |
| May 16:
Burundi's president and the head of the only
rebel group still outside the peace process reach agreement in Tanzania. |
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Security is tightened in Guinea Bissau after the
ousted president declares himself leader two years after the coup. |
| May 15:
Sixty-two South Africans jailed over a plot to
topple the government of Equatorial Guinea are freed. |
| May 14:
DR Congo's National Assembly adopts a new
constitution designed to end years of war and instability. |
| May 13:A
UN peacekeeper dies and several others are wounded in an attack by militiamen
in eastern DR Congo. |
| May 12:A
non-violence pact is reached between Ethiopia's two main political parties to
ensure a peaceful vote on Sunday. |
| May 11:A
new interior minister is appointed in Burundi - which could mean former rebels
rejoin the power-sharing government. |
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Recent peace contacts and more international
focus on northern Uganda could end the war, say the UN's top emergency
official. |
| May 10:The
most powerful warlords in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, agree to set up a
united force, which they say will restore security to the lawless city. |
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Elections in Ethiopia's biggest region will be a
"hollow exercise", says lobby group Human Right Watch. |
| May 9:Two
Rwandan brothers appear before a tribunal in Belgium accused of war crimes. |
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President Joseph Kabila flies to the DR Congo
second city of Lubumbashi following reports of an armed uprising in the area. |
| May 8:African
finance ministers close a three-day meeting with a call to cancel Africa's
debt burden. |
| May 7:Lord's
Resistance Army rebels kill at least 20 people in the north of Uganda in two
separate attacks. |
| May 6:The
new chief prosecutor at Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal says he hopes
Liberia's ex-leader Charles Taylor will soon face trial. |
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Rebels from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army kill
at least 10 people from a refugee camp in the north, officials say. |
| May 5:An
anti-slavery human rights activist in Niger is imprisoned for attempted fraud
six days after his arrest. |
| May 4:Four
senior Burundi police officers are sentenced to death for the killing of a
World Health Organization official. |
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Zimbabwe: Women Have No Cause for Celebration |
| May 3:US
backs off genocide charge in Darfur |
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Repeating Clinton's Mistakes: U.S. Response to
the Crisis in Darfur |
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Day 113 of the
President's Silence |
| May 2:President
Museveni says Uganda will try to do without foreign aid, accusing donors of
"meddling". |
| May 1:Sudan
Becomes US Ally in 'War on Terror' |
4-2005
| April 28:The
African Union agrees to more than double the number of its peace monitors in
Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur. |
| April 19:UN
Monitor 'Outraged' by Violence against Women and Children in DRC |
| The
acting head of the UN refugee agency, Wendy Chamberlin, is to visit
conflict-torn Darfur in Sudan. |
| April 18:Neutrality
on Genocide |
| Atrocity
Victims in Uganda Choose to Forgive |
| April 14:
Darfur Eclipsed by Peace in Southern Sudan |
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A group of Somali men arrive tired and hungry in
Malawi after a two-month 2,000km journey by foot. |
| April 13:
West Africa: Roving Warriors Recruited for New
Conflicts |
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Young veterans of West Africa's wars are being
recruited to fight new conflicts in the region, a report says. |
| April 12:The
US pledges some $850m (£449) to help rebuild southern Sudan after years of
war, so the donor target of $2.6bn is passed. |
| April 11:
The international court in The Hague is to hear
a complaint by the Democratic Republic of Congo against Uganda. |
| April 10:
The UN and African Union condemn a village
rampage by militiamen in Sudan's Darfur region. |
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The World Health Organization suspends work to
contain the deadly Marburg virus in Angola after attacks on staff. |
| April 6:
The Less They Know, the Better: Abstinence-Only
HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda |
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The UN probes claims by an ex-employee that an
erroneous report on DR Congo destabilized the region. |
| April 3:
The United Nations military in eastern DR Congo
attack militiamen in Ituri region who refused to disarm. |
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Sir Mark Thatcher is refused a visa to live in
the US following his conviction relating to an African coup plot. |
| April 1:
UN Votes to Send Any Sudan War Crime Suspects to
World Court |
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The UN Security Council votes to refer Darfur
war crimes suspects to The Hague, as the US drops its veto threat. |
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Paul Wolfowitz, the new head of the World Bank,
says he wants to focus on poverty reduction, particularly in Africa. |
3-2005
| March 31:
The main Rwandan Hutu rebel group blamed for the
1994 genocide announces an end to its armed struggle. |
| March 30:
Angola bans visitors to the province at the
centre of an outbreak of the lethal Marburg virus from leaving the country for
21 days. |
| March 29:Six
medics appeal against the death sentence imposed in Libya for deliberately
infecting children with Aids. |
| March 25:Report
Calls for Punishing Peacekeepers in Sex Abuse |
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The UN votes to send some 10,000 peacekeepers to
southern Sudan but remains deadlocked on Darfur. |
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The Marburg virus, an Ebola-like disease that
has killed 98 people in northern Angola, reaches the capital, Luanda. |
| March 24:TB
has reached alarming proportions in Africa, while in Europe resistant strains
are emerging, experts warn. |
| March 23:Five
candidates in the Central African Republic presidential elections call for the
poll to be annulled. |
| March 21:DR
Congo authorities arrest several leaders of militias active in the troubled
north-eastern Ituri region. |
| March 20:East
African nations agree to send peacekeepers to Somalia - but they will not come
from neighboring countries. |
| March 18:One
UN employee is sacked and six others suspended over allegations of sexual
misconduct in DR Congo. |
| March 17:Congo
Crisis Dwarfs Both Iraq and Darfur, Bush Turns Blind Eye |
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Nigeria proposes an African-run tribunal to hear
cases of alleged war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region. |
| March 16:A
delegation from northern Uganda tries to dissuade the International Criminal
Court from issuing arrest warrants for rebel leaders. |
| March 15:Illness
and hunger alone may have claimed 180,000 lives in Darfur over the past 18
months, the UN reports. |
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The International Criminal Court holds its first
hearing - on alleged war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
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The NHS's reliance on doctors from developing
countries is strongly criticised by the British Medical Association. |
| March 14:An
orphanage in Nigeria is shut and its owner arrested after allegations that it
was at the heart of a baby-selling scam. |
| March 13:Voting
begins in the Central African Republic in an election due to end two years of
military rule. |
| March 11:Nigeria's
ruling party expels the Anambra state governor and his former political backer
following political violence there. |
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Sudan gets worried after a US congressional
report mentions that the Americans carried out nuclear tests there. |
| March 10:Traditional
community courts in Rwanda begin to try people accused of involvement in the
1994 genocide. |
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The number of cases of the deadliest form of
malaria could be twice as high as thought, research suggests. |
| March 9:
South Africa investigators start exhuming the
first of a number of apartheid-era bodies in unmarked graves to establish
their identities |
| March 8:Rights
groups criticise Niger for deciding to drop an event to free slaves on the
grounds that slavery no longer existed. |
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan tells Security
Council members to do more to end "appalling" crimes in Darfur. |
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South Africa is to change the name of its
capital city, Pretoria, to Tshwane, as part of a move to make place names more
African. |
| March 7:
Widespread rape in eastern DR Congo will not end
unless the justice system is reformed, a human rights groups says. |
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Police in Nigeria uncover a suspected case of
child trafficking after they stopped a truck carrying 64 children. |
| March 5:The
UN is to remove its senior envoy to DR Congo, weeks after an investigation
into sexual abuse by UN troops. |
| March 4:Nearly
90 million Africans could contract the virus that causes Aids in the next 20
years, the UN warns |
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Presidential polls will be held in Togo on 24
April to end a month of political turmoil, election officials say |
| March 3:Zimbabwe
is set to free more than 60 suspected mercenaries linked to a coup plot in
Equatorial Guinea. |
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The Security Council stands by UN forces in DR
Congo after they kill at least 50 members of a militia |
| March 2:UN
forces in DR Congo kill at least 50 members of a militia accused of killing
peacekeepers. |
| March 1:Voters
in Burundi back a new power-sharing constitution, designed to end years of
ethnic conflict |
2-2005
1-2005
| Jan 30:Occidental
is the major winner of oil and gas licenses in Libya, returning to the country
after two decades. |
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Up to 17 people are killed in clashes between
police and demonstrators in eastern Sudan. |
| Jan 29:The
UN Sudan envoy says government forces are running intensive military
operations in west Darfur |
| Jan 26:Ten
Libyans are to go on trial accused of torturing Bulgarian nurses on death row
into giving false statements. |
| Jan 25:Film
on African catastrophe conceals more than it reveals |
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New evidence on the role of the US and France:
Who is responsible for the genocide in Rwanda?
[29 April 1998] |
| Jan 22:Ex-rebel
leader John Garang arrives in Sudan's southern capital for the first time
since a historic peace deal. |
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A fire at a refugee camp in northern Uganda
kills up to six people and leaves another 10,000 with no shelter. |
| Jan 19:Some
two-thirds of Eritreans will require food assistance this year, United Nations
officials say. |
| Jan 17:Africa
will miss key targets for reducing poverty by more than 100 years, says UK
chancellor Gordon Brown. |
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The Sudan government signs the second peace deal
in a month, this time with the NDA umbrella group. |
| Jan 15:A
strike brings the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa, to a
standstill, with shops closed and bus drivers not working. |
| Jan 14:Report
reveals the catastrophe in Sierra Leone and Liberia |
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The world has shown "callous disregard" for the
70,000 killed in Sudan's Darfur conflict, a human rights group says. |
| Jan 13:Sir
Mark Thatcher avoids a prison sentence over his part in an alleged coup plot
in Equatorial Guinea. |
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Extent of
tsunami destruction along African coast slowly emerges |
| Jan 8:An
inquiry confirms claims that UN peacekeepers working in DR Congo sexually
abused young girls and women. |
| Jan 7:Breaking
Taboo, Mandela Says Son Died of AIDS |
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Fighting in eastern DR Congo may impede
elections planned for June, a United Nations report warns. |
| Jan 3:A
request from Kenya's leader for the Somali government to leave their exiled
home in Kenya falls on deaf ears. |
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| Jan 1:Sudan
signs a permanent truce with southern rebels towards ending one of Africa's
longest civil wars. |
12-2004
11-2004
10-2004
| Oct 26:
Tens of thousands of rape survivors in the DR
Congo are dying needlessly, Amnesty International says |
| Oct 20:The
UN urges an end to the war in northern Uganda, where thousands of children are
caught up in the fighting. |
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DR Congo accuses a Belgian minister of behaving
like a colonial-era cartoon character. |
| Oct 17:Accused
of Killings, He Still Gets Back Pay |
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Armed peacekeepers from Rwanda are to deploy in
Sudan's Darfur region a week late over a billeting problem. |
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DR Congo President Kabila makes his first trip
to the volatile east of the country to a rapturous welcome. |
| Oct 15:A
mysterious group takes a mining town
in the south of the DR Congo, as the president embarks on his first trip to
the volatile east. |
| Oct 11:The
EU is set to lift sanctions against Libya and ease an arms embargo, under
strong Italian pressure. |
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Scientists discover a new group of giant apes in
the DR Congo, which could be a new species of primate. |
| Oct 8:Tony
Blair arrives back in Britain from Africa after saying the continent should be
the top priority for a new EU battle force. |
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A UN panel is given three months to establish
whether genocide is taking place in Darfur in western Sudan. |
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Environmentalist Wangari Maathai of Kenya
becomes the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. |
| Oct 4:Nigerian
government launches assault on civilians in Delta region |
| Oct 3:How
Cheney's Halliburton Bribed Nigerians |
| Oct 1:Sudan's government agrees to the deployment of
some 3,500 extra African troops in war-torn Darfur. |
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Some 100,000 Liberians, who fled 14 years of
war, are being sent home a year after the fighting ended. |
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Ten prisoners broke free from their cells in central
Kenya by singing hymns at the top of their voices to drown out the sound of
their escape. |
9-2004
| Sep 28:Foreign
oil workers in Nigeria's Niger Delta are warned to leave the region by a local
armed militia. |
| Sep 27:Some
360 Congolese refugees return from Burundi, despite violent protests from
local villagers. |
| Sep 24:The
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, withdraws hundreds of workers from oil
facilities in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta. |
| Sep 23:Aid
agencies try to help thousands of people displaced by unrest in the east of DR
Congo. |
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe accuses
George W Bush of behaving as though he is God, with Tony Blair his prophet. |
| Sep 22:The
average African is worse off now than during the colonial era, says the
brother of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki. |
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The government in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno
state holds an all-night emergency session after the "Taleban" militia kill
four people. |
| Sep 21:Libyan
business leaders welcome the ending of US trade sanctions but anti-terror
measures remain. |
|
Mauritania repeats its call for urgent aid to
combat the largest locust plague to hit the region in over 20 years. |
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Governors in northern Nigeria introduced the
criminal aspect of Islamic law for political gain, say human rights activists. |
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Arab militias responsible for atrocities in
Sudan's Darfur region now guard camps for the displaced, refugees say. |
| Sep 20:As
donors pledge $40m to save DR Congo's wildlife, life in Virunga Park remains a
battle ground. |
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A Catholic priest accused of participating in
Rwanda's genocide goes on trial at the UN war crimes court. |
| Sep 19:The
UN Security Council approves a resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan
if violence continues in the western region of Darfur. |
| Sep 17:UN
chief Kofi Annan calls on the Security Council to act now to end the violence
in Sudan's Darfur region. |
| Sep 15:The
eight West African states that use the CFA franc are replacing their banknotes
in an effort to clamp down on forgeries and disease-ridden notes. |
| Sep 11:Sudan
has categorically rejected a statement by US Secretary of State Colin Powell
in which he described the killings in Darfur as genocide. |
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Why organize a coup in Equatorial Guinea?
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| Sep 10 :Thousands
of people who have fled their homes in northern Uganda are preparing to go
home, officials say. |
| Sep 8:Ugandan
troops have stormed the water ministry in central Kampala to free two women
who had been taken hostage. |
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After years of
drought, Zambia has produced so much maize it is exporting its surplus to its
neighbours. |
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South African police have arrested a priest in the capital, Pretoria, for
allegedly conducting at least 600 fake marriages in the past year.
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| Sep 7:Human
Rights Watch, a
US-based human rights group rejects a UN report linking a Burundi massacre to
rebels in DR Congo. |
| Sep 6:Report
shows widespread undernourishment in Africa |
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Some 13 million children in northern Nigeria are
being vaccinated against polio in a bid to wipe out the disease. |
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At least 3,000 people have fled more violence in
Sudan's troubled Darfur province in the past few days, the UN says. |
| Sep 3:Ministers
from Burundi's leading Tutsi parties have boycotted a cabinet meeting called
to discuss the drafting of a new constitution. |
| Sep 2:SA
President Thabo Mbeki is to resume talks with a former rebel leader who pulled
out of the DR Congo government. |
| Sep 1:A
union claims that strikers at Botswana's biggest diamond firm are being
evicted from their company-owned homes. |
8-2004
7-2004
6-2004
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The power-sharing
government in DR Congo is marking its first anniversary without any official
celebrations |
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The presidents
of DR Congo and Rwanda wind up talks in Nigeria, agreeing to abide by the 2002
peace deal. |
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Amidst fears of
renewed fighting, the UN Security Council warns neighbouring countries not to
interfere in DR Congo's crisis |
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West and
Central Africa is on the brink of the largest polio epidemic in recent years,
experts have warned. |
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One of the renegade
leaders who captured the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bukavu
has fled to neighbouring Rwanda. |
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A former Rwandan mayor
has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for organizing the slaughter of
20,000 people during the 1994 genocide. |
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Aids 'killing
Africa's soldiers' Aids is the leading cause of death in Africa's military and
police forces, according to new research. |
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DR Congo troop move
alarms Rwanda. Kinshasa's reported troop movements to the east trigger Rwandan
protests and raise fears of renewed fighting. |
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A US defense official
says the US navy is planning an unusual task force deployment off the West
African coast |
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A group of 16
aid workers in the troubled Darfur region are released by rebels, the UN
confirms. |
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President Joseph
Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has appeared on national
television, saying that a coup attempt has been thwarted.
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The humanitarian
situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has worsened drastically
since fighting erupted in Bukavu earlier this month |
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Sierra Leone war 'hero' on trial. The
popular leader of a pro-government militia goes on trial accused of recruiting
child soldiers during the brutal civil war. |
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Rwandan trial 'bad for
democracy'. The jailing of ex-president Pasteur Bizimungu for 15 years is
criticised as shameful and bad for Rwanda's future. |
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Much of Nigeria
comes to a near-standstill after millions of workers walk out over rising fuel
prices |
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Some 300,000 people
will die in war-torn western Sudan, even if aid is delivered now, aid
officials say. |
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A group of dissident
fighters is closing in on the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of
Bukavu |
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Former Liberian
President Charles Taylor has lost his appeal against being prosecuted for war
crimes |
5-2004
4-2004
3-2004
2-2004
Defense
lawyers end their strike at the international court to try those responsible for
the 1994 Rwandan genocide. (Jan 2004)
South
African President Thabo Mbeki signs two key deals during a historic visit to
Kinshasa. (Jan 2004)
A Hutu
rebel leader asks for forgiveness over the war as he takes up a post in
Burundi's new government (Dec 2003)
UN redeploys
troops in DR Congo (Nov, 2003)
The leader of
a Rwandan Hutu rebel group gives himself up and returns to a cordial welcome in
the capital Kigali.(Nov, 2003)
Key Rwandan
genocide trial begins-Four former ministers go on trial accused of masterminding
the killing of some 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide. (Nov, 2003)
New voluntary
measures are agreed to curb the trade in conflict diamonds, but critics say it
does not go far enough.(Nov, 2003)
UN
peacekeepers say at least 55 villagers have been killed in a village north of
Bunia, mainly pregnant women and children (Oct, 2003)
Bush’s AIDS
appointee spells out corporate agenda (Oct, 2003)
UPDATE: Coltan vs King Kong
(Sep, 2003)
Rwandan
crisis deepens as Kagame begins seven-year term
Read the latest news as
of 1-31-03
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