http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news EssentialAfrica Drum News en 60 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9285272/Somalia-launches-offensive-to-clear-al-Qaeda-from-refugee-camp.html A major offensive has begun to clear Somalia's al-Qaeda-allied Islamist army from the world's largest camp for people displaced by war and famine. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10408 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:37:34 +0200 http://allafrica.com/stories/201205240078.html In the trial of those accused of killing Ernest Manirumva, a Burundian anti-corruption activist, has been a missed opportunity to deliver justice, 20 Burundian and international nongovernmental organizations said today in a joint statement. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10407 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:36:56 +0200 http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Kenya+gets+Sh8+5bn+Chinese+grant+for+CCTV+surveillance/-/539546/1411882/-/4hqt94/-/index.html Kenya has received a grant of $100 million (Sh8.5 billion) from China for installation of closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) in major cities and towns to minimise terrorism attacks. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10404 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:26:39 +0200 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Mali+coup+leader+to+head+interim+government/-/1066/1411942/-/wvcjukz/-/index.html Supporters of Mali's coup leader have dealt a fresh blow to a return to democratic rule by saying they have chosen him to head an interim government, defying a deal mediated by regional leaders at the weekend. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10403 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:25:47 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84M07A20120523 Angola will hold a parliamentary election on August 31 that is likely to confer another term in office on President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, leader of Africa's second biggest oil-producer for the last 32 years. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10402 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:22:04 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84N00G20120524 A Tunisian military prosecutor demanded on Wednesday that the death penalty be imposed in absentia on ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali over his alleged role in the deaths of protesters in the towns where the Arab Spring began. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10401 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:21:14 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/23/216069.html Libyan authorities have guaranteed that former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi will get a fair trial, meeting Tunisia’s final condition for his extradition, the Tunisian president’s office said Wednesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10399 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:14:40 +0200 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/22/renewables-maghreb-idUSL5E8GMAJV20120522 Morocco plans to speed up tender processes for the development of a 2,000-megawatt solar energy plan, starting with the award this year of a first contract for 160 megawatts to be generated using concentrated-solar technology (CSP). http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10376 Wed, 23 May 2012 11:04:26 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84M00420120523 Ivory Coast's minister of African integration - a lead mediator in Mali's political crisis - resigned his post on Tuesday over questions about his role in a toxic waste dumping scandal, his office said in a statement. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10373 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:54:45 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84L08B20120522 Around 60 miners trapped underground on Tuesday after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe's Mimosa platinum mine have been brought back to the surface without injury, the company said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10372 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:54:07 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84M00820120523 Six weeks after it toppled the government and derailed elections, Guinea-Bissau's military junta said on Tuesday it was handing power back to the West African state's civilian leaders. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10371 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:53:23 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18167224 Egyptians are heading to the polls in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10370 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:45:39 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18156608 One of the two South African farm workers accused of murdering white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche in 2010 has been found guilty. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10369 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:43:35 +0200 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/9276347/How-a-Ugandan-war-orphan-came-to-hug-the-Queen.html The Sunday Telegraph visits the Ugandan home of war orphan, Lydia Amito who sang for the Queen at Windsor Castle and broke royal protocol by giving her a hug. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10343 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:34:13 +0200 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/05/2012520162222477531.html Four men accused of espionage have been released by Sudanese authorities after three weeks of detention, officials have said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10342 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:33:32 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBMxqBBc9q1_i47_afA0mXiWUzzw?docId=0a59910ea04441d4af6b19a5b9576dc0 A human rights organization reports that an Algerian Islamist prisoner has died in a Moroccan prison after a hunger strike that lasted around two months. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10338 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:30:43 +0200 http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/tunisia-salafis-idINDEE84K03420120521 Waving black flags embossed with Islamic verses, thousands of radical Islamists rallied in the central Tunisian town of Kairouan on Sunday to demand a wider role for religion in a country long considered one of the Arab world's most secular. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10337 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:30:03 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/21/215422.html They came out in droves united in their desire to overthrow Hosni Mubarak, but on the eve of Egypt’s landmark presidential election, the youth that spearheaded that revolt are divided over how to keep it alive. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10336 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:29:27 +0200 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Central+Somalia+hit+by+flooding+/-/1066/1410108/-/halvvmz/-/index.html More than 40 families in parts of Mudug region in Central Somalia have been hit by heavy flooding. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10335 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:28:22 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18137896 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland which killed 270 people, has died at his home in Libya. Megrahi, 60, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10334 Sun, 20 May 2012 21:14:11 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/UN-deminers-one-from-SA-freed-by-Sudan-20120520 Four United Nations deminers arrested by the Sudanese army along the country's tense southern border were released on Sunday and turned over to chief African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki, the defence minister said. One of the four is a South African. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10331 Sun, 20 May 2012 20:46:13 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Madagascars-Rajoelina-vague-on-elections-20120519 Madagascar's president says he hopes elections can take place "as soon as possible." The island nation in the Indian Ocean has been in turmoil since President Marc Ravalomanana was toppled in 2009 in a coup led by Andry Rajoelina. Ravalomanana tried to return home from exile in South Africa in ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10323 Sat, 19 May 2012 13:34:37 +0200 http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/City-Press-firm-on-Zuma-portrait-20120518 City Press will not remove a photograph of a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with his penis hanging out of his pants from its website http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10319 Fri, 18 May 2012 11:32:09 +0200 http://www.swradioafrica.com/2012/05/17/police-in-zimbabwe-label-tb-joshua-a-false-phophet/ A ZANU PF plot to block a visit to Zimbabwe by popular Nigerian preacher Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua gathered steam http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10306 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:48:11 +0200 http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/nigeria-crooks-tap-17-of-oil-minister-1.1297494 Nigeria was losing nearly a fifth of its revenues to oil thieves, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had told ThisDay http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10294 Wed, 16 May 2012 10:12:24 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18069685 EU naval forces have conducted their first raid on pirate bases on the Somali mainland, saying they have destroyed several boats. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10274 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:17:35 +0200 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenya+Vision+2030+pillars+below+target/-/1056/1406122/-/ekl3ke/-/index.html Tourism, agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure and Information and Communication have underperformed over the last year, according to the latest report tracking their performance. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10273 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:16:41 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84D07K20120514 West Africa's 15-nation ECOWAS bloc threatened on Monday to impose new sanctions on Mali's coup leaders and their allies, accusing them of blocking a return to civilian rule and further destabilising the divided nation. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10272 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:16:05 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84D09D20120514 The first group of around 12,000 South Sudanese ordered out of Sudan last month as conflict flared between the two neighbours flew into the southern nation's capital Juba on Monday in an internationally backed humanitarian airlift. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10271 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:15:24 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84E00O20120515 Seven United Nations peacekeepers in Congo were wounded when gunmen opened fire at a protest in the East of the country on Monday, drawing condemnation from the U.N. Security Council. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10269 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:14:08 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/15/214207.html Algeria’s traditional bars are closing one after the other but illegal outlets are mushrooming, in a prohibition-style game of cat-and-mouse played out with an increasingly Islamic state. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10268 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:13:25 +0200 http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/tunisian-islamists-join-jihad-against-assad-1.1296499 The first that Tunisian schoolteacher Mokhtar Mars heard of his brother fighting alongside rebels in Syria was a phone call from a foreign number, telling him Houssein was dead. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10266 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:12:09 +0200 http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/05/taps-to-remain-dry-in-nairobi-for-two-weeks/ Nairobi is to continue suffering a major water supply interruption for the next two weeks after raging floods in Gatundu http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10258 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:59:28 +0200 http://somalilandsun.com/index.php/community/684-somaliland-stolen-children-transferred-to-hargeisa-orphanage 9 children suspected of being stolen from Yemen have been transferred to the Hargeisa Orphanage. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10253 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:27:55 +0200 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Senegal+new+leader+out+to+battle+graft/-/1066/1404984/-/oa9s5uz/-/index.html Senegal’s president Macky Sall like his predecessor Abdoulaye Wade could have chosen not to declare his assets, but the new leader’s apparent quest to set the pace for a strict financial discipline to buttress the democratic dividend is inextinguishable. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10252 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:26:23 +0200 http://www.sudantribune.com/Former-U-S-official-calls-for,42585 The United States should move in to provide ant-aircraft defense systems to South Sudan in order to discourage Khartoum from launching aerial attacks and persuade it into returning to negotiations, former special envoy to Sudan said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10251 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:25:18 +0200 http://www.mysinchew.com/node/73475 Villagers in northeast Burundi hacked to death a woman accused of witchcraft and five members of her family, including a baby and two other children, local authorities said Sunday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10249 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:20:29 +0200 http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/41560/World/Region/Algerian-Islamist-calls-for-Tunisiastyle-revolt-ov.aspx Algeria's Islamist Front for Justice and Development issues calls for popular uprising in wake parliamentary polls it says were rigged in favour of ruling party http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10247 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:08:57 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84C03Q20120513 Uganda has captured one of the top five members of the Lord's Resistance Army, bringing it a step closer to catching Joseph Kony, the notorious rebel leader accused of war crimes, the military said on Sunday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10246 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:08:22 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i17RthSDZNuI_EahQgrirCiwtZvw?docId=CNG.9551ca2188281a3f92269f9da68300e9.4e1 Angolan soldiers could stay in Guinea-Bissau http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10242 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:51:45 +0200 http://www.iol.co.za/business/international/sa-faces-iran-oil-sanctions-deadline-1.1294553 South Africa has less than seven weeks to “significantly reduce” its oil exports from Iran, or face possible US sanctions http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10237 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:45:42 +0200 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-cracks-down-on-heavy-weapons-smugglers-near-libyan-borders/2012/05/10/gIQA784dFU_story.html Egyptian security forces seized near the Libyan border on Thursday dozens of heavy weapons allegedly bound for the Sinai Peninsula to stir up trouble ahead of upcoming presidential elections, a police official said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10234 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:04:57 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84A00W20120511 On the outskirts of Addis Ababa, a muezzin leads a solemn sermon at a mosque before thousands of worshippers stamp their feet to protest against what they say is the Ethiopian government's interference in religious affairs. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10233 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:03:07 +0200 http://www.sudantribune.com/Ugandan-president-commissions-Gulu,42552 Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday officially commissioned the long-awaited construction of the Gulu-Nimule highway, which directly links Uganda to the Republic of South Sudan. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10230 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:16 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18000929 The black flag of al-Shabab flies on Twitter - and its tweets are in English - English that reads like it is written by a native speaker. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10229 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:59:32 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/11/213387.html Algerian authorities announced a relatively high turnout for Thursday’s legislative polls despite widespread mistrust disaffection that marked the campaign as moderate Islamists are expected to gain large share of seats in the parliament, easing pressure for change in a country left behind by last year’s “Arab Spring.” http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10225 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:47:58 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84A03D20120511 Comments from South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk, defending separate racial states during apartheid set off a storm of criticism on Friday from people still living with the legacy of decades of racial oppression. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10224 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:47:18 +0200 http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2239645&language=en French, Morroccan FMs meet to discuss bilateral ties, Western Sahara http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10217 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:51:30 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18016978 A British man accused of links to Somalia's Islamist militants has gone on trial in Kenya for allegedly plotting a bomb attack. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10214 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:47:55 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hO2d5c9jjC7da4rCV65PAdD4zhqA?docId=CNG.913d166f7f05807c7ead3a2fceba444b.4b1 An IMF mission hopes to recommend new loan programmes for Malawi following a visit next week, an official said Wednesday, after the country devalued its currency to boost the economy. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-news#10213 Thu, 10 May 2012 10:51:28 +0200