BANGUI, Central African Republic — A former prime minister, Faustin Archange Touadéra, has won election as president of the Central African Republic, according to preliminary results, setting the stage for the first elected government in three years for a poverty-stricken country that is just emerging from a devastating civil war. Mr. Touadéra was declared the…
The Central African Republic government should immediately investigate and prosecute uniformed army officers who publicly lynched a man they suspected of being a Seleka fighter, Human Rights Watch said today. The extrajudicial killing and mutilation took place on February 5, 2014, immediately after the new president, Catherine Samba-Panza, addressed thousands of regrouped military officers, expressing…
United Nations — The United Nations’ top envoy in Mali warned Thursday that the security situation remains tenuous because of the continued threat of terrorist attacks. U.N. Mali envoy Albert Koenders said terrorist attacks in the north increased in the last part of 2013, killing civilians, four U.N. peacekeepers and two French journalists. “The terrorist…
An irrigation project in Niger. Yaounde — Bad roads, poor storage and weather destroy a fourth of food crops grown on a continent plagued by food insecurity A new day has just started and I am standing at one of the largest farm markets north of the Cameroon capital Yaounde. Trucks that have journeyed all night…
Tissi — Thousands of former Chadian refugees who fled conflict in their country between 2004 and 2009 for neighbouring Darfur in Sudan, have been returning home in the past few months following sporadic inter-communal violence. These Chadian returnees, alongside thousands of new Darfuri refugees, started crossing into southeastern Chad in January, fleeing a conflict over…
Political retribution against known MDC-T supporters is on the rise countrywide, amid reports many have fled their homes after facing relentless threats since the elections on July 31st. At risk are those who refused to vote with the assistance of ZANU PF officials during the elections. The MDC-T said it is aware of a political…
Robert Mugabe was speaking at the Defence Forces Day holiday Robert Mugabe has vowed to press on with his policy of forcing all companies to cede economic control to black Zimbabweans. “Indigenisation” was one of his main campaign issues for last month’s election, which he officially won. Mr Mugabe, 89, denies opposition claims that the…
In May, Unicef organised the release of a few child soldiers from armed groups More than 100,000 children in the Central African Republic are facing sexual abuse and recruitment into armed groups, Save the Children has warned. The children have been forced to flee their homes following the overthrow of the government by a rebel…
Opuwo — The arid hills of Namibia’s northwestern Kunene Region make for a harsh environment at the best of times. With agriculture limited by the region’s dry, sandy soil, most of the local population rely on livestock farming, leading a semi-nomadic existence dictated by the search for fresh pasture for their cattle and goats. But…
The integrity of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been called further into question by the resignation of one of its commissioners, Mkhululi Nyathi, on Wednesday. In his letter to the Commission, seasoned lawyer Nyathi said he had been forced to step down as a result of the unprofessional manner in which the whole electoral process…
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