June 05

• Burundi: African Press Review 5 June 2013

  Burundi clams down on the media. Uganda's closed papers reopen. Is CAR recruiting LRA fighters to its army? Has Kagame purged his cabinet? And Egypt's Muslim Brothers slam Turkey's... Read more »

April 25

• South Africa: African Press Review 25 April 2013

  Confusion over South Africa's role in the Central African Republic, and good news for Kenya's Central Bank from yesterday's treasury bond auction - two of the stories in today's... Read more »

April 17

• Central African Republic: CAR Prime Minister Appeals for French Military Help

  Central African Republic Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye has appealed for the help of France and of a regional African force to combat following last month's rebel takeover. Read more »

April 05

• South Africa: African Press Review 5 April 2013

  Zuma's government is under fire over CAR intervention. Does Kenyatta have new laws up his sleeve? Will Jonathan amnesty Boko Haram? And how many Nigerians have accounts in tax... Read more »

April 04

• Central African Republic: Ousted President Says Chad Aiding Rebels

  In an interview with RFI, ousted Central African Republic president François Bozizé insisted that Chad was behind the recent coup in which he was overthrown. Read more »

• Central African Republic: More Than 50 South African Soldiers Killed in Car Bangui Clash - Witness

  A witness in Bangui says more than South African soldiers were killed in Central African Republic on 23 March, adding to suspicions that the government has not given the true death... Read more »

April 03

• South Africa: African Press Review 3 April 2013 [press release]

  South Africa's role in the Central African Republic and Uganda's operations against the Lords Resistance Army in the CAR both feature as stories in today's African papers... Read more »

April 02

• South Africa: African Press Review 2 April 2013

  South African soldiers in the Central African Republic creating tension; the source of Namibia's Namib desert, and Kenyans looking to immigrate to the US may have a harder time,... Read more »

April 01

• Central African Republic: Rebels Form New Govt

  The Central African Republic's Prime Minister has unveiled a post-coup government of Séléka rebels and the former opposition party. Read more »

• Kenya: African Press Review 1 April 2013 [press release]

  In Kenya, the President-Elect and his defeated opponent both called on their supporters to remain calm after the Supre,e Court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory. Meanwhile,... Read more »

March 28

• Africa: African Press Review 28 March 2013 [press release]

  A row over the role of South African peacekeepers in the current crisis in the Central African Republic, and news of an Opec-style body for the platinum mining industry are among... Read more »

March 25

• Central African Republic: President Bozize Flees to Cameroon - Report

  Events in the Central African Republic and the death of one of Africa's greatest storytellers are among the stories in today's papers... Read more »

March 24

• Central African Republic: France Confirms President Has Fled the Capital

  The French government has confirmed that the president of the Central African Republic, François Bozizé, has left the capital Bangui after it fell to rebel hands. Read more »

• Central African Republic: Rebels Claim Seizing Presidential Palace

  Rebels in the Central African Republic claim to have seized the presidential palace as fighting intensified in the capital Bangui. It comes as former colonial power France called... Read more »

January 06

• Central African Republic: Rebels Demand Resignation of Bozize

  Rebels in the Central African Republic have repeated their demands that any peace deal must include President François Bozizé stepping down. Read more »

December 31, 2012

• Africa: African Press Review 31 December 2012

  Troubles in Central African Republic, more on plans by Ghana's opposition to challenge recent election results and gloomy forecasts for South Africa all feature in today's African... Read more »

December 27, 2012

• Central African Republic: Govt Asks France to Help Stop Rebels

  The President of the Central African Republic has called on France and the United States to help push back advancing rebel fighters, but the idea has been flatly rejected by the... Read more »

December 26, 2012

• Central African Republic: Protesters Blame France for Rebel Advance

  Hundreds of protesters angry at a rebel advance in the Central African Republic threw stones and tore down the French flag at the French embassy in the capital, Bangui. Read more »

October 11, 2012

• West Africa: African French-Speakers Set to Dominate

  The Secretary General of the Francophonie organisation which groups together French-speaking nations around the world, says that 85 per cent of French speakers around the world... Read more »

October 09, 2012

• Africa: African Press Review 9 October 2012

  Problems with South Africa's national airline, anger at secret bonuses for MPs in Uganda and analysis of the state of the Great Lakes countries 50 years after independence, all... Read more »

June 25, 2012

• Central African Republic: Gunmen Attack French Uranium Plant in Central African Republic - Army

  Gunmen have attacked a uranium plant operated by French nuclear power giant Areva at Bakouma in the southeast of the Central African Republic, army and French diplomatic sources... Read more »

March 24, 2012

• Central Africa: African Union Determined to Take Down Joseph Kony

  The African Union has said that it is going to deploy more than 5,000 forces to hunt for the elusive and notorious LRA leader, Joseph Kony. Read more »

October 08, 2011

• Central African Republic: Cholera Epidemic Hits Country

  A cholera epidemic has claimed 16 lives in the Central African Republic, according to a health ministry spokesman. Read more »