Nigerian survivors recall Jos massacre
March 11, 2010
Survivors of violence in central Nigeria on Sunday have been telling the BBC what happened.
One witness in a village near the city of Jos said he heard his neighbours screaming as they were attacked.
Ivory Coast President Gbagbo dissolves government
February 13, 2010
Ivory Coast’s President Laurent Gbagbo has dissolved the government and electoral commission, casting doubt on when long-delayed elections will occur.
Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has been asked to form a new government.
Mr Gbagbo had accused the electoral commission of registering more than 400,000 people who were not eligible to vote because they were foreigners.
South Sudan hungry ‘quadruples in a year’
February 2, 2010
The number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million, the UN’s World Food Programme says.
The WFP wants to ensure the people have enough food to last until their next harvest in October.
Senegal offers land to Haitians
January 17, 2010
Senegal’s president says he will offer free land and “repatriation” to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.
President Abdoulaye Wade said Haitians were sons and daughters of Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, including some thought to be from Senegal.
Guinea junta head Camara ‘to recover in Burkina Faso’
January 13, 2010
Guinea’s junta leader has been taken to Burkina Faso after six weeks in Morocco being treated for a bullet wound.
Eyewitnesses said Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, who was shot by an aide last month, had to be helped off the plane.
UN ends criticised Congo campaign
December 17, 2009
The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo says a joint military operation against rebels will be concluded at the end of this month.
Alan Doss told the UN Security Council that the campaign in the east of the country had “largely achieved” its goal of weakening the Rwandan Hutu rebels.
Greenpeace ‘to put humans first’
November 16, 2009
The new head of Greenpeace, South African Kumi Naidoo, has told the BBC he will make human life more of a priority for the environmental group.
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher in South Africa says it reflects his background as a rights campaigner, fighting apartheid.
MoD vessel ‘watched yacht hijack’
November 14, 2009
The crew of a UK military ship watched as a British couple were taken hostage by Somali pirates but were ordered not to open fire, it has emerged.
The RFA Wave Knight did not act for fear of endangering the couple’s lives, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
Anger at Zimbabwe UN envoy snub
October 29, 2009
The UN’s torture investigator has made an angry return to South Africa after being refused entry to Zimbabwe.
Manfred Nowak was detained by officials in Harare who said he had no clearance to visit, despite his insistence he had an invite from the prime minister.
“I have never in any other country been treated in such a manner,” Mr Nowak, who had planned a week-long fact-finding mission, told the BBC.
Guinea forces ‘planned crackdown’
October 28, 2009
A deadly crackdown on protesters in Guinea in September was “premeditated and pre-planned at the highest level”, Human Rights Watch has told the BBC.
Soldiers deployed at the sports stadium where protesters had gathered blocked the exits before systematically killing and raping protesters, the group says.