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Ansar al-Din has yet to deliver on its promise to reject extremism and terrorism, fight trans-border organised crime and engage in a dialogue with all parties to the Mali crisis, activists from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) told Magharebia.

In a recent World Council of Churches (WCC) consultation, participants analyzed the impact of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Africa’s sub-regions.

Central African leaders on Saturday demanded the withdrawal of M23 rebels from the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.Eleven regional heads of state issued the call at an emergency summit in Kampala amid UN warnings that aid workers are struggling to reach more than 100,000 people displaced by the fighting in eastern Congo.

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The Rwandan president Paul Kagame will not attend on Saturday at the summit of Kampala intended to find a resolution in conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The 2 400 necessary billion FCFA to fasten the financing of the Plan of economic and social development (PDES) of Niger 2012-2015.

The African Spring may not have materialised, but in Botswana - the continent’s oldest multi-party democracy - the winds of change are buffeting a party that has ruled the country since independence.

But generalisations about Africa are dangerous. The only certainty is its size: it could contain the United States, China and India and still have room to spare. Recently it has been dubbed rising, hopeful, the continent of the future. But Africa cannot be declared successful until its vast, rich heart, the Congo, is peaceful and prosperous.

Now that it’s open season for holiday charity campaigns, one group has released a new song designed to drum up international donations for the less fortunate — except that the targeted donors are Africans and the intended recipients are the not-so-needy Norwegians.

Many people have been wounded, while the thousands forced to flee their homes to Goma have been without help for several days, said Frédéric Boyer, head of the ICRC sub-delegation in the city.

KAMPALA — M23 rebels said on Sunday they had opened talks with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila, hours after a regional summit called on them to end their offensive in the east of the country.

(Reuters) - Congo's government will not negotiate with M23 rebels in the east of the Central African country until the rebels pull out of the city of Goma, a government spokesman said on Sunday.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A humanitarian crisis is looming in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, aid agencies have warned, after another day of fighting sent thousands of people fleeing for safety.

Adís Abeba/Kinshasa, 23 nov (dpa) - Sobre la República Democrática del Congo (RDC) se cierne un agravamiento de la crisis: organizaciones internacionales de ayuda humanitaria indicaron que el movimiento rebelde M23 prosiguió con su ofensiva en el este del país.

MAPUTO, Nov. 23 — Member countries of the the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have condemned the rebels of M23 for occupying Goma, in their offensive against the Kinshasa government.

CPI threw an arrest warrant against the spouse of the ex-president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against humanity made during the electoral crisis of 2010-2011...

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