Friday, 12 April 2013 08:31
Mali's transitional government prime minister has promised that elections will go ahead in July despite fears that his government is failing to reassert control after the ousting of rebel fighters.
Africa

Mali's transitional government prime minister has promised that elections will go ahead in July despite fears that his government is failing to reassert control after the ousting of rebel fighters.

Sudan and South Sudan will normalise ties and start cross-border cooperation, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said.

An estimated 74,000 Malians, who have been displaced by fighting in Mali, are in need of urgent help in the desert of Mauritania, the Doctors without Borders (MSF) aid group has said.

The political and security situation in the Central African Republic is highly volatile, the humanitarian situation is "extremely dire," looting and sexual violence are on the rise, and armed groups are recruiting children, the UN envoy to the impoverished country has said.

A court in Malawi has adjourned a treason trial against the former foreign minister and other high-ranking former government officials until April 16.

After months of denial, Somalia's government has for the first time acknowledged that its security forces were involved in rape cases that drew an international outcry by human rights groups.

France has withdrawn its first batch of soldiers from Mali, as it begins to pull out troops sent to battle rebel fighters in the west African nation.

Five Indian peacekeepers escorting a United Nations convoy in South Sudan have been killed in an ambush by rebels, according to the Indian foreign ministry.

Rebels in Sudan's Darfur have moved within kilometres of a key town in the violence-racked region, local media have reported.

Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces international charges of crimes against humanity, has been sworn in to office at a ceremony in a stadium packed with supporters and foreign dignitaries.
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