August 2007 in Africa

• A French court orders the release of two suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. (AP via IHT)
• Sudan pledges support for UNAMID, a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur. (BBC)

• Following the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV, Bulgaria is to waive Libyan debts worth $57 million. (BBC)
• 100 people are killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when a train derails. Government officials attribute the accident to faulty brakes. (CBC) (BBC)

• 50 people are feared drowned and 100 are missing after a boat capsized in Sierra Leone (Reuters via CNN)
• The President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe signs into law the Interception of Communication Act allowing the Zimbabwe government to listen to private telephone conversations, open mail and intercept faxes and e-mail. (AFP via Africaasia)
• Faisal Wangita, 25, son of Idi Amin, was jailed today for being part of a mob that killed Mahir Osman in London in 2006. (BBC)
• France is to sell Libya anti-tank missiles and radio communications equipment worth $405 million. (BBC)
• Rebel groups in Darfur hold meetings in Tanzania jointly mediated by the United Nations and the African Union to resolve disputes. (BBC)

• Authorities in Mozambique seize thousands of boxes of counterfeit toothpaste which they fear may contain the dangerous chemical diethylene glycol. (AP via Forbes)

• Flooding in Lagos, Nigeria, leads to thousands of people being forced from their homes and six people going missing. (Reuters via Press TV)

• Two fossils found in Kenya challenge existing views of human evolution by showing that Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis lived side by side in eastern Africa for half a million years. (New York Times)

• Two trains collide in Zimbabwe. (ZimDaily)
• The President of Zambia Levy Mwanawasa suspends the head of the Drug Enforcement Commission Ryan Chitoba for alleged misappropriation of money confiscated from criminals. (BBC)
• The National Assembly of Mauritania adopts legislation criminalising slavery. (AFP via News Limited)

• The Ugandan government announces plans to pay the "chronically poor" earning less than a dollar a day a poverty allowance of $10 a month. (AP via the Guardian)

• Voters in Sierra Leone go to the polls for the first time since the end of the country's civil war in 2002. (Voice of America)

• African Union nations pledge up to 12,000 troops for the joint United Nations–African Union mission to Darfur. (Reuters via CNN)
• Heavy rains in Mauritania cause at least two deaths from mudslides and causes thousands of people to become homeless. (Voice of America)
• South Africa refuses to set up a refugee camp for the influx of people fleeing Zimbabwe. (AFP via News Limited)

• Solidarity, a South African trade union, calls a strike in coal mines. (Reuters South Africa)

• Bingu wa Mutharika, the President of Malawi, threatens to "close down" the National Assembly of Malawi unless it starts discussing the budget. (BBC)
• In Nigeria, gunmen kidnap the mother of a member of the Bayelsa State parliament. The 11-year-old son of another MP is freed. (BBC)

• The Orange Democratic Movement, Kenya's leading opposition political party, splits into two factions headed by Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga. (BBC)

• The British government is preparing to evacuate all Britons from Zimbabwe, about 22,000 people, due to increasing violence and shortage of food. (Times Online)

• A Nile boat sinks off the northern Egyptian town of Beni Suef with dozens feared missing. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)

• Somalia:
  • An armed clash between two Somali clans in the village of Goobo results in at least 16 people being killed and 30 injured. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
  • The Deputy Governor of Mogadishu Abdullahi Hassan Geney survives an assassination attempt after his car hits a landmine. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)

• An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude hits northern Tanzania 85 kilometres north of Arusha. (Reuters)

• The Revolutionary Congolese Movement (MRC), the Front for the Patriotic Resistance of Ituri (FRPI), and the Front of National Integration (FNI) rebel groups agree to disarm and cooperate with the MONUC peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Scoop)

• The Nigerian government extends a curfew in Port Harcourt after hundreds die in gang violence this month. (Reuters Alertnet)
• The South African Communist Party launches an investigation into what happened to a political donation of 500,000 rand allegedly made in 2002. (BBC)

• A series of explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia kills three people. (AFP via ABC News Australia)

• The Sudanese Government and the United Nations launch a flood appeal to help victims of recent flooding which has killed 89 people and destroyed 73,000 homes. (BBC)

• The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) claim to have captured a Sudanese army base in the Kordofan province of Sudan. (Reuters via ABC)
• John Holmes, the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator, warns that refugees of the Darfur conflict are arming themselves and may soon be able to defend themselves if the Sudanese government renews its attacks. (BBC)

• At least 10 Malians are killed and several others injured after their vehicle hits a land mine. (Voice of America)
• Darfur rebels accuse the Sudanese Government of bombing South Darfur. (Reuters via ABC News Online)
• The Anglican Church of Kenya consecrates two bishops from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America after they left the Episcopal Church due to concerns that the Church was consecrating gay bishops. (BBC)

• Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida are indicted for carrying explosive materials across state lines with one indicted for terrorism charges. (AP via CNN)
• A tank truck crashes into four minibuses in Kisii, Kenya resulting in at least 29 deaths and 30 injuries. (AP via IHT)
• The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown and the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy threaten the government of Sudan with sanctions over Darfur. (Reuters)

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