Category Archives: Daily News Wrap
In Mali, Ansar Dine, one of the armed Islamist groups occupying northern Mali, said Wednesday it was no longer seeking to impose strict sharia law across the entire country, but still wanted to keep it in its stronghold of Kidal, … read more »
ibyan authorities say they have made arrests in association with the killing of U.S. ambassador to Libya during a siege on an American consulate, as waves of anti-American protests against a film mocking Islam continued sweeping the Middle East and … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Ambassadors of the United States, Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Libya, List of diplomatic missions of the United States, Middle East, Sana, Yemen
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(Reuters) – Nigerian authorities arrested 11 suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Ads by Google Haram overnight and seized automatic weapons, ammunition and several homemade bombs, the military said on Wednesday. Boko Haram is waging a low-level insurgency in … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Borno State, Christian, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Muslim, Nigeria, Reuters, Task force
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Eleventh-hour efforts by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s estranged lover Locardia Karimatsenga to stop his weekend wedding suffered a heavy blow after the High Court dismissed her urgent application yesterday. High Court judge Justice Antonia Guvava advised Karimatsenga, who was seeking … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Harare, IndepthAfrica, Karimatsenga, Morgan Tsvangirai, Movement for Democratic Change Tsvangirai, Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Zambia Congress of Trade Unions, Zimbabwe
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The United States is deploying a US Marine anti-terrorism team to Libya to bolster security after a deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, a US defense official said Wednesday. “The Marines are sending a FAST (Fleet Antiterrorism Security … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Barack Obama, Benghazi, Libya, Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, September 11 attacks, Tuesday, United States, United States Marine Corps
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By David Knox CNN continues its “Freedom Project” campaign against Modern Day Slavery with the documentary A Stand in the Sinai, featuring CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen. African refugees, mostly from Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, face a dangerous journey crossing Egypt’s … read more »
A body was found near the Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana on Tuesday, North West police said. “I can confirm that a body of a man was found 300m away from where the miners usually meet, on the western side … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Canadian Country Music Association, CCMA, IndepthAfrica, Lonmin, Marikana, National Union of Mineworkers, North West, Nyala, Rustenburg
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Police in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga have arrested 62 Ethiopians suspected of entering Malawi illegally.”We got a tip from villagers that they spotted a truck full of people with strange faces packed in some bush,” said Enock Livason, … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Ethiopians, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Joyce Banda, Karonga, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania
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British honeymooners Shrien and Anni Dewani begged for their lives after their vehicle was hijacked in a South African township, a court has heard. In a police video shown in court, suspect Xolile Mngeni described their pleas in a statement … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Southern Africa
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Tagged Bristol, Cape Town, Dewani, Gugulethu, IndepthAfrica, Murder of Anni Dewani, South Africa, Sweden, Western Cape High Court
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Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of fresh atrocities, including the execution of recruits trying to escape rebel ranks. A spokesperson for Human Right Watch told the BBC that one woman had been gang-raped by M23 … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, DR Congo, News
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Tagged bbc, Bosco Ntaganda, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Rwanda, Tutsi
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One month into the deadly strike at South Africa’s Lonmin platinum mine the reality of “no work, no pay” is hitting hard in the humble shantytowns at the foot of the giant plant. Debt repayments have been pushed aside. … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Bloemfontein, Imtiaz Sooliman, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Jacob Zuma, Lonmin, Somalia, South Africa, Strike action
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SOUTH Africa exported more than R2bn-worth of weapons in the second quarter of this year but it is the R2,2m sale of equipment to Zimbabwe that has caused concern. The second-quarter report of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee, chaired … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, South Africa, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged David Maynier, Democratic Alliance, IndepthAfrica, Jeff Radebe, Robert Mugabe, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, United States, Zimbabwe
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(Reuters) – Sudan’s armed forces attacked rebels near the capital of the oil-producing South Kordofan state on Monday, killing 18 people, a state-linked website said, in an escalation of recent fighting on several fronts in Sudan’s borderlands. Sudan’s government is … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, News, Sudan
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Reuters, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement
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Two Swedish journalists who have been imprisoned in Ethiopia for more than a year have been pardoned and are set to be freed at an upcoming mass amnesty ceremony, a top government official said Monday. The decision to pardon photographer … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Committee to Protect Journalists, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Journalist, List of heads of government of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Somalia
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Ethiopian-Canadian Day 2012 in Video
Mali’s government says it has launched an investigation into the shooting deaths of 16 Islamic preachers at a military checkpoint in the country’s central region. In a statement Sunday, the government said eight Malians and eight Mauritanians had been killed … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Mali, News, West Africa
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Tagged Bamako, Diabaly, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Mali, Mauritania, Sahara, Ségou Region, Sunday
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Ethiopian government officials and ethnic Somali rebels have met to set a framework for negotiations aimed at ending a 28-year insurgency in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia’s Somali regional state. Both the government and rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation … read more »
The Interior Ministry has warned citizens against traveling to Ethiopia. The warning came after a cable from the Saudi Embassy in Addis Ababa about the tense situation currently prevailing in Ethiopia, including violence against Muslims and the arrests made by … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Meles Zenawi, Muslim, Saudi Arabia
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By Emily Wax You’ve heard of the Chinese New Year — but how about the Ethiopian New Year? The Washington area’s 200,000-plus Ethiopian-Americans celebrate the holiday, which marks the end of the Horn of Africa’s long rainy season. Traditionally, children … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopian American, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Irish American, new year, Washington, Washington Monument
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MUSCAT — Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing Airline in Africa has announced that Omani nationals and residents can currently apply for Ethiopian visa through Ethiopian Airlines office in Muscat. This facility will attract more passengers in the Sultanate to visit … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, airline, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Airlines, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Oman, Yemen
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Telephone masts belonging to MTN and Airtel in Kano and Maiduguri have been attacked and destroyed by gunmen suspected to be operatives of islamist sect, Boko Haram.Funmi Omogbenigun, a senior executive working with MTN Nigeria confirmed the development. A Reuter … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Christian, Government, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kano, MAIDUGURI, Muslim, Nigeria
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Spanish authorities say police have evicted more than 80 illegal migrants that had occupied a tiny island off Africa’s Mediterranean coast. Abdelmalik El Barkani, the Interior Ministry’s representative on Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla, said the eviction, which began … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, North Africa
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Mediterranean Sea, Melilla, Morocco, North Africa, spain, Spanish language
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The roasted chickens had an unusual stuffing – $150,000 worth of cocaine, according to Nigerian police. A Nigerian mechanic who struggled in Brazil for more than six years had hoped the drugs would buy him a life of luxury in … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Baba Suwe, Brazil, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Latin America, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria, Sao Paulo, United States
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Thisday Abuja — The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has declared 13 out of the 27 Nigerians, who were deported from Madrid, Spain, and received on August 10, 2012, at the International wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Ikeja, IndepthAfrica, Inspector General, Inspector-General of Police, Lagos, madrid, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nigeria, Nigeria Police Force
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Thousands of people are attending the state funeral of Ethiopia’s late prime minister Meles Zenawi.
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Mengistu Hailemariam, Meskel Square, Paul Kagame, Susan Rice
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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame walks down stairs at the Prime Minister’s palace in Addis Ababa on September 1, 2012 after paying respect to Ethiopia’s longtime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on August 20, 2012. African leaders joined other foreign … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, Rwanda
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Paul Kagame, Prime minister, Rwanda, State funeral
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Malawi’s Deputy Prime Minister Khumbo Kachali leaves on September 1, 2012 the prime minister’s palace in Addis Ababa after paying his respects to Ethiopia’s longtime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on August 20, ahead of the September 2 state … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Malawi, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Agence France-Presse, Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, IndepthAfrica, Malawi, Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, State funeral
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Benin’s President Yayi Boni walks down stairs at the Prime Minister’s palace in Addis Ababa on September 1, 2012 after paying respect to Ethiopia’s longtime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on August 20, 2012. African leaders joined other foreign … read more »
Posted in Benin, Daily News Wrap, News, West Africa
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Benin, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Prime minister, State funeral, Yayi Boni
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Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete (L) walks at the Prime Minister’s palace in Addis Ababa on September 1, 2012 as he pays respect to Ethiopia’s longtime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on August 20, 2012. African leaders joined other foreign … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, Tanzania
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Jakaya Kikwete, Meles Zenawi, Prime minister, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, State funeral, Tanzania
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir stands up after signing a book of condolences at the Prime Minister’s palace in Addis Ababa on September 1, 2012 after paying respect to Ethiopia’s longtime Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on August 20, 2012. … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Ethiopia, News, South Sudan
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegne, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, United States
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