Africa News Update
Africa News Update offers news, background and feature articles from African sources twice weekly. The newsletter is free of charge and is edited by the Norwegian Council for Africa. Some of the articles may be shortened.
Africa: Again, no African leader got Ibrahim prize
Lagos (Nigeria) — Again, no past African head of state was able to clinch the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's award for African leadership instituted to reward excellence in the management of national affairs. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
This Day (Nigeria)
Kenya: -True African leaders have nothing to fear from ICC, says Maathai
Kampala (Uganda) - As the first Review Conference of the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court takes stock of the ICC's achievements and considers amendments to strengthen the pursuit of justice around the world, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize is one of its strongest defenders. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Kenya: Why not set up an ICC in Jo'burg? (opinion)
Nairobi (Kenya) - Days after Kampala said Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for allegedly ordering mass murder, torture and rape in Darfur, had not been invited to the July 19 African Union meeting in Uganda, it had to backtrack. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
The East African (Kenya), by Charles Onyango-Obbo*
Nigeria: Government's 10 billion jubilee budget strongly criticised
Abuja (Nigeria) - Angry reactions have continued to trail Federal Government's plan to spend N10 billion to celebrate the nation's 50th independence anniversary. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
The Vanguard (Nigeria)
Zimbabwe: Mugabe at World Cup - but some African leaders are not invited
Johannesburg (South Africa) — President Mugabe arrived here yesterday afternoon to join other African leaders for the official opening of the historic Fifa 2010 Soccer World Cup at Soccer City Stadium today. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
The Herald (Zimbabwe)
Nigeria: Diasporan shadow parliament wants Babangida prosecuted
Lagos (Nigeria)/New York (US)- The presidential ambition of former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, came under attack at the weekend as a shadow parliament, convened by Nigerians resident in the United States, passed a resolution urging the Federal Government to prosecute him for annulling the June 12, 1993 election. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
Next (Nigeria)
Kenya: Country wants Amisom upgraded to UN Mission
Nairobi (Kenya) - In the past six months, fighters of the Somali terrorist network Harakat Al Shabaab al-Mujahideen, have made six incursions across the Kenyan border into Liboi, a hamlet located 150 kilometres east of Garissa, a major town in North Eastern Province. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
The East African (Kenya)
Burundi: May election challenged by massive fraud allegations
Bujumbura (Burundi) - Allegations of massive fraud during May’s local elections in Burundi have cast a shadow over the country's democratic transition, prompting international calls for compromise rather than confrontation. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Rwanda: Detained US lawyer denied bail
Kigali (Rwanda) — The embattled American lawyer Peter Erlinder was remanded by the Intermediate Court of Gasabo on grounds of "serious indices of culpability" in his case of genocide denial and spreading rumours that threaten state security on the 7th of June. Read >
Monday, 14 June 2010
The New Times (Rwanda)