Geoffrey - Instablogs
Nov 10 2009
The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river! Technocrats from the two countries are quietly working to head off a dispute as River Semliki, which defines part of their common frontier, rapidly changes...
Sep 3 2009
Ali Bongo Ondimba, the presidential candidate from the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party, has won Gabon’s presidential election held on Sunday, the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday. Ali Bongo Ondimba, the son of late president Omar...
Jun 6 2009
Rival Islamist groups battled for a central Somali town on Friday, leaving at least 56 militants dead, while the number of new refugees from a month of fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, approached 100,000. Somalia’s insurgency, which represents the...
May 30 2009
Fighting between rival Arab tribes in western Sudan’s oil-rich Kordofan region killed almost 250 people over two days earlier this week, including 75 policemen, Sudan’s interior minister said. Tribal clashes over cattle grazing and water...
Dec 17 2008
Somalia’s embattled President Abdullahi Yusuf appointed a new Prime Minister Tuesday, worsening a political crisis that has largely crippled an ineffective interim government, Radio Garowe reports.President Yusuf made the announcement in Baidoa, a...
Apr 24 2008
‘Well what would you do in your country?” That was the question a group of Darfuri refugees put to an aid worker in their camp near the Sudanese border 18 months ago. Anna Schmitt was trying to collect documentary evidence of the atrocities,...