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Le second tour de l’élection présidentielle au Liberia s’est ouvert mardi 8 novembre. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf est seule en lice après l’appel au boycott de son adversaire Winston Tubman. Au moins deux partisans du candidat du Congrès pour le changement...

SYNTHESE ET RECOMMANDATIONS du Rapport Malgré plus d’une décennie d’efforts de la Communauté économique des Etats d’Afrique centrale (CEEAC) pour concrétiser l’architecture de paix et de sécurité, la coopération politique et sécuritaire en Afrique centrale...

Sporadic gunfire broke out in the centre of Monrovia on Monday after Liberian riot police fired tear gas to disperse several hundred supporters of presidential challenger Winston Tubman, a Reuters witness said. A Liberian police officer said both the...

Les deux principaux partis politiques grecs ont scellé hier soir un accord politique historique ouvrant la voie à la formation d'un gouvernement d'unité nationale, qui aura la lourde tâche d'extirper le pays de 11 millions d'habitants de la crise de la...

Hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in southern Africa are adopting fast-growing trees and shrubs to fertilise their fields naturally, for improved yields and incomes, according to a study. Scientists at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),...

The authorities have arrested Marcial Abaga Barril, an opposition member who planned to campaign against the Nov. 13 referendum on a constitutional change that would all but ensure Africa’s longest-serving dictator could extend his rule, Human Rights...

While the world is struggling to contain the epidemic of Somali pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean, a new “copycat” phenomenon is emerging on the other side of the continent, in West Africa, where piracy is expanding rapidly. The new piracy hotspot is...

Deux policiers hauts placés et cinq talibans sont poursuivis pour le meurtre en 2007 de la première ministre pakistanaise Benazir Bhutto, a annoncé aujourd'hui un procureur. Ils sont accusés d'avoir contribué à l'attentat suicide qui avait fait une vingtaine...

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Saturday called on voters to ignore a poll boycott ordered by her rival, saying the move was illegal and intended to intimidate Liberians. Winston Tubman, the challenger in a presidential run-off vote due on...

The leader of Colombia's left wing Farc rebel group, Alfonso Cano, has been killed in a military raid, President Juan Manuel Santos has confirmed. He called it the most devastating blow to the group in its decades-long insurgency and urged it to disband....

Au Liberia, un nouveau coup de théâtre électoral. L'opposant Winston Tubman a annoncé le 4 novembre son retrait du second tour de la présidentielle prévu le 8 novembre. Un deuxième tour qui l'oppose à la chef de l'Etat sortante Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf....

Sierra Leone will send 850 soldiers to an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, a military official said Thursday. The official, Lt. Col. Ronnie Harleston, Sierra Leone’s military attaché to the United Nations, said the troops would deploy in...

As portions of the Arab world struggle to extinguish decades of oppression and dictorial rule, the rights and opportunities for women in these societies stand at a delicate precipice, U.S. State Department officials told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee...

The wave of protests by Tibetan Buddhists against Chinese rule continued yesterday as a nun burned herself to death at a crossroads in south-west China, the 11th self-immolation by monks or nuns this year. The nun's death came as Lobsang Sangay, head...

Un groupe turc revendique le piratage du site web de l'hebdomadaire Charlie Hebdo, dont les locaux ont par ailleurs été la proie d'un incendie, mercredi. Le groupe Akincilar (nom d'une ville turque) a envoyé une lettre au Nouvel Observateur dans laquelle...