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April 10

Mali: French Families Press Mali to Scrap Ban On Foreign Adoption

As French troops fight armed Islamists in northern Mali, a group of French families is to lobby for a change in the African country's adoption law, amended in 2012, so that only... Read more »

Cameroon: Stowaway Found Dead in Cameroon-Paris Plane Landing Gear

The body of a stowaway, possibly a teenager, was discovered on Monday in the landing gear of a plane which landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport from Cameroon. Read more »
Mali: France Withdraws First Soldiers From Mali

France has withdrawn around 100 soldiers from Mali, the army announced on Tuesday. Read more »
Kenya: African Press Review 9 April 2013 [press release]

Uhuru Kenyatta's swearing-in ceremony in Kanya, debate about the cash reward for the arrest of LRA leader Joseph Kony and a decline in public trust of trade unions in South Africa... Read more »

Eritrea: Fleeing Eritrea's Bombs to Fight Racism in Australia

About 2,000 Eritreans live in Australia, many of them granted asylum after being tortured by President Isaias Afewerki's regime. Despite the emotional and sometimes physical scars... Read more »
East Africa: Kenyan Wins Paris Marathon, Ethiopian Bags Women's Race

Kenyan Peter Some was the surprise winner of the 37th Paris marathon on Sunday, beating Ethiopia's Tadese Tola and compatriot Eric Ndiema. The women's event winner was Ethiopian... Read more »

Mali: Al Qaeda Denies Sahara Chief Killed in Mali

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) on Saturday denied a French claim that its leader in the Sahara has been killed in the French-led offensive in northern Mali. French Foreign... Read more »

South Africa: African Press Review 4 April 2013

How much is organisational effectiveness worth? Has the ANC run out of excuses? Gold Fields Ghan hit by strikes. The Marikana commission will not be going to Pretoria. And a... Read more »
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 »
Eritrea: Eritrean Journalist Relaunches Paper in Canada

People flee Eritrea for many reasons - personal, economic or political??. Aaron Berhane did everything he could not to leave. But a clampdown on the media forced him to flee to... Read more »

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 »

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 »
Eritrea: Eritreans Debate Integration in Chilly Oslo

Fleeing a long and bloody war thousands of Eritreans have taken refuge abroad - some of them in Norway, the coldest and northernmost corner of Europe. Today two generations of... Read more »

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 »
Rwanda: France Orders First Trial of Former Rwandan Army Captain On Genocide Charges

For the first time, a French court has ordered a Rwanda to face to trial over the country's 1994 genocide, a judicial source told AFP. Read more »
Eritrea: Activist Fights to Free Family From Sentence Without Trial

In Eritrea, President Isaias Afewerki's regime allows no political opposition. Read more »
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 »
Rwanda: Chilli and Croissants With MC and Rap Artist Gaël Faye

Franco-Rwandais MC and rap artist Gaël Faye was born and bred in the Burundi capital, Bujumburu, and moved to Paris aged 13. He talks about this double culture and difficult... Read more »
Mali: Suicide Bombing, Jihadi Attack in Central Timbuktu

Fighting in the historic northern Mali town of Timbuktu this weekend left three Islamist fighters dead and five Malian troops wounded, the Malian army said Sunday. The second... Read more »
Eritrea: 'Fear and Limbo' Drives Woman to Set Up Support Centre in Israel

Israel is home to one of the largest Eritrean communities in the world. However, they face discrimination and live in constant fear. One Eritrean woman has founded a centre to give... Read more »

Africa: West Losing Out to China in Africa, Senegal's Sall Tells Obama

The West should pay as much attention to Africa as China and other developing economies are doing, Senegal's President Macky Sall told RFI in Washington. Sall was among four... Read more »
Africa: French Police Break Up African Immigrant Papers Forgery Ring

French police have broken up a major network providing hundreds of forged documents to immigrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Read more »

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 »

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