Kenya recovers 249 kg of ivory from poachers
January 9, 2011
Kenya has recovered 81 elephant tusks in the northern part of the country where it is trying to contain a new wave of poaching, officials said on Saturday.
Weighing 249 kg and valued at 2.5 million shillings ($30,830), the tusks and two rhino horns were recovered by a special team of rangers from the Kenya Wildlife Service and detectives in a Friday night operation.
Deadly unemployment protests hit Thala, western Tunisia
January 9, 2011
At least one person has been killed in fresh unrest over unemployment in Tunisia, eyewitnesses say.
One hospital source told Reuters news agency that one person had been shot dead during a demonstration in the western town of Thala.
Southern Sudan votes on independence
January 9, 2011
People in Southern Sudan have begun voting in a landmark referendum on independence from the north.
The week-long vote is widely expected to result in Africa’s largest country being split in two.
Report: 33 women raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
January 8, 2011
At least 33 women were raped on New Year’s Day in a region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the medical group Doctors Without Borders Thursday.
U.N. asking for more peacekeepers for Ivory Coast
January 6, 2011
Ivory Coast’s diplomatic squabble centered Wednesday on a siege laid to a posh waterfront hotel where the president-elect has been holed up under the protection of United Nations peacekeepers.
African offer to Gbagbo fails to end Ivory Coast crisis
January 4, 2011
A delegation of African leaders has apparently failed to persuade incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast to stand down following disputed polls.
The group went to Ivory Coast on Monday to offer him an amnesty if he left.
AU envoy warns Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo
January 2, 2011
Kenya’s prime minister headed to Ivory Coast on Sunday with a warning for the country’s self-proclaimed president, urging him to step down or face military intervention by his neighbors.
Ouattara gives Gbagbo a deadline to step down in Ivory Coast
January 1, 2011
A three-man West African delegation won’t return to Ivory Coast until Monday, when it will ask self-declared President Laurent Gbagbo to relinquish his post or face a military ouster, a representative of the group said Friday.
Nigeria new year revellers hit by Abuja ‘bomb’
December 31, 2010
An explosion at a bar near a barracks in Nigeria’s capital has killed a number of people.
Nigeria’s military chief said a bomb had been planted to target people celebrating New Year’s Eve in Abuja but he did not say who was responsible.
Gbagbo defiant as African leaders leave Ivory Coast
December 29, 2010
West African leaders have ended their mission to Ivory Coast, having failed to persuade incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down.
They had hoped Mr Gbagbo would agree to cede power to Allasane Ouattara, widely considered to be the true winner of November’s elections.