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Mahamat Djibrine: Chadians hail ex-police chief's arrest

May 17, 2013 Jacqueline Moudeina, Lawyer and Human Rights Advocate

Mr Djibrine is accused of torturing and killing hundreds of opposition activists in the 1980s. It is not clear whether he will be tried in Chad or in Senegal; where Mr Habre is due to go on trial after being held under house arrest there since 2005.

Six dead in Rwanda building collapse as rescue ends

May 15, 2013 Rwanda’s police said the search and rescue mission has been completed and the site is clear

Six people died and more than 30 people were injured after a building collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as they called off rescue efforts a day after the accident.

Mali aid meet opens with pledge to avoid past mistakes

May 15, 2013 European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (right) smiles alongside Mali President Dioncounda Traore (left) at the end of a joint press conference on Tuesday

International donors opened a conference on Mali Wednesday aimed at raising some two billion euros ($2.6 billion), pledging to help all sides in the troubled country avoid the mistakes which led to war and political crisis.

'Gunmen kidnap wife, daughter of Nigeria’s Supreme Court Justice'

May 12, 2013 Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour and his wife

Gunmen have kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of a supreme court judge on a road in southern Nigeria apparently hoping for a ransom payment, police said Sunday.

Anti-Gadhafi gunmen lift siege of ministries

May 12, 2013 Libyan gunmen refuse to lift sieges of ministries

 Libya's foreign ministry appeared to be working as normal on Sunday after gunmen who had surrounded it, blocking access to the building, were no longer to be seen.

Nasarawa: 28 cops found alive, dead toll hits 43

May 10, 2013 Camp for the internally displaced from Yelwa, in Lafia, Nasaraw

Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Abayomi Akeremale, confirmed that 28 policemen have been found alive. Akeremale said the 28 policemen were held hostage, but released today.

AU soldiers died in Somalia

May 10, 2013 Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General

As many as 3,000 African Union peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia in recent years in an attempt to end an Islamist insurgency and bring stability to the Horn of Africa nation, a senior U.N. official said

Nigeria: Nasarawa cult ambush kills 30 policemen

May 9, 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan

Nigeria has lost at least 30 policemen in an ambush by a local militia in the central Nasarawa state, officials said.

Ghana: May 9 stadium disaster victims Remembered

May 9, 2013 The May 9 statute at the Accra Sports Stadium

Ghana is today remembering the 126 football fans who perished in the Accra Sports Stadium disaster 12 years ago.  The May 9 stadium disaster is Africa’s worst soccer tragedy. The lives were lost as a result of a stampede which occurred during a league match between Accra Hearts of Oak and arch rivals Asante Kotoko in 2001.

CAR: Humanitarian alert, but donors not delivering

May 8, 2013 Amy Martin from the UN Office Humanitarian Affairs

The signals coming from the Central African Republic remain deeply discourage. The head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Amy Martin told WARD’s Chris Simpson they are trying to mobilize funds and highlight the most critical needs.