African news timeline May 10
Last updated: 19 august, 2010 - 12:54 GMT
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May 31st
The 25th France-Africa summit gets underway in Nice
ListenDuration: 04:20
The UN Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon, speaks of his high hopes for the ICC
ListenDuration: 02:53
May 27th
The BBC's James Copnall.
ListenDuration: 03:01
Clip of President Omar al-Bashir's swearing in ceremony.
ListenDuration: 00:29
Omar al-Bashir will be sworn in today extending his 21 years as Sudan's president
ListenDuration: 02:51
Suspected Islamic militants attack a town in northern Kenya
ListenDuration: 03:25
May 26th
A former Zambian finance minister is sentenced to five years in jail for corruption.
ListenDuration: 01:42
Merera Gudina rejects the country's parliamentary results alleging fraud and intimidation
ListenDuration: 03:38
The UN Security Council vote to pull peacekeepers from Chad
ListenDuration: 02:02
May 25th
Ethiopia's prime minister celebrates his election victory.
ListenDuration: 03:27
Ethiopia's ruling party poised for a landslide victory as provisional results are released
ListenDuration: 02:21
The trial of five suspected Somali pirates begins in the Netherlands
ListenDuration: 04:19
Guinea's Supreme Court sift through potential presidential candidates.
ListenDuration: 01:41
May 24th
A look back at the Ethiopia's election campaign
ListenDuration: 02:22
"The [candidates] have to accept the judgement of the voters"
ListenDuration: 00:57
"Today Ethiopia has had peaceful and quiet elections."
ListenDuration: 00:57
May 21st
South Sudan President Salva Kiir is sworn-in, we take a look at his 'to do' list.
ListenDuration: 03:18
Uduak Amimo puts opposition complaints to the governing EPRDF's campaign strategist, Redwan Hussein.
ListenDuration: 02:47
Uduak Amimo visited the northern region of Tigray to assess the political situation ahead of Sunday's elections.
ListenDuration: 04:33
The inauguration of the president-elect of South Sudan is to take place in Juba today.
ListenDuration: 02:07
May 20th
The BBC's Uduak Amimo with Ambo University's Henock Seyoum, on the main issues for Ethiopians at the polls.
ListenDuration: 02:45
The BBC's Uduak Amimo travelled to the northern town of Adwa to meet the prime minister's constituents.
ListenDuration: 02:39
Following disagreements over the handling of the border war with Eritrea the EPRDF's most senior woman moved into opposition.
ListenDuration: 02:14
The BBC team in Addis Ababa have been canvassing the views of Ethiopian youth.
ListenDuration: 04:10
The BBC's Uduak Amimo asks two university students about the portrayal of Ethiopia in the international media.
ListenDuration: 02:07
Two gay men who held a public engagement ceremony have been found guilty of unnatural acts and gross indecency.
ListenDuration: 02:23
May 12th
A traveller's perspective.
ListenDuration: 02:21
South Africa's reaction to the Libya plane crash.
ListenDuration: 02:03
A flight recorder has been found at the site of the fatal Libyan plane crash.
ListenDuration: 02:59
Over 100 people have been killed in a plane crash in Libya.
ListenDuration: 02:46
May 6th
Our reporter in Kaduna, Abdullai Kaura Abubakar describes how the news was broken.
ListenDuration: 01:58
"I think he excelled in many ways because he was so calm in enforcing the things that he believed in."
ListenDuration: 03:05
May 5th
Strategizing for Africa's growth.
ListenDuration: 03:03
An Abuja court withdraws corruption charges against former head of EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu.
ListenDuration: 03:01
Incumbent PM Ramgoolam goes up against former leader Paul Berenger in Mauritius poll.
ListenDuration: 03:45
Leaders at World Economic Forum on Africa to rethink continent's growth strategy.
ListenDuration: 02:53
May 4th
Graft charges against Nigeria's anti-corruption tsar may be dropped by Jonathan government.
ListenDuration: 02:11
A US religious NGO admits funding campaign against Kenya's draft constitution.
ListenDuration: 03:22
In Sudan the Assessment & Evaluation Commission discusses steps towards referendum.
ListenDuration: 03:27
May 3rd
Hundreds of Cameroonian journalists demonstrate over the recent death of a newspaper editor.
ListenDuration: 02:45
Egyptians gather in Cairo to protest against the extension of the country's 29 year long state of emergency laws.
ListenDuration: 02:39
The UN hear from those whose lives have been turned upside down by attacks in DRCongo.
ListenDuration: 03:07
Who are the worst culprits of attacks on Africa's media?
ListenDuration: 05:41
Features
At least someone always wins in African elections.
ListenDuration: 03:37
Farai Sevenzo casts an unflinching eye over the UK elections and its unlikely outcome.
ListenDuration: 03:35
Britain has a new prime minister, what can Africa expect from a new government?
ListenDuration: 05:37
Re-narrating apartheid era horrors in South Africa.
ListenDuration: 10:27
Youths of African descent discuss their expectations of the UK poll.
ListenDuration: 04:32
Sola Odunfa on selective justice Nigeria style
ListenDuration: 01:58
Is there such a thing as a good assassination?
ListenDuration: 04:30
