Africa News Timeline April 10
Last updated: 9 august, 2010 - 11:57 GMT
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April 30th
At least eight people killed when mutinous troops attacked an army base in South Sudan.
ListenDuration: 02:04
Debate in Zimbabwe over whether the death penalty should be retained in the constitution.
ListenDuration: 03:17
Opposition UPND leader, Hichilema claims that democracy is under threat in Zambia.
ListenDuration: 03:07
April 29th
Acting president sacks head of Nigeria's National Election Commission, Maurice Iwu
ListenDuration: 02:51
Medical charity warns that malnutrition in parts of Ivory coast close to emergency levels.
ListenDuration: 04:31
Uganda's president to be questioned by parliamentarians over money meant for Chogm.
ListenDuration: 02:06
A senator of Zamfara State, Nigeria defends his faith and denies taking an under-age bride.
ListenDuration: 02:45
April 28th
The UN's humanitarian chief finds a serious situation on the ground as Niger's food crisis continues.
ListenDuration: 03:58
Niger Delta militants threaten to resume hostilities.
ListenDuration: 02:11
A Cameroonian inquiry blames pilot error for the 2007 Kenya Airways plane crash.
ListenDuration: 03:01
April 26th
Omar al-Bashir wins Sudan's presidential vote and Salva Kiir comes first in the south.
ListenDuration: 02:01
'Other parties...who didn't take part in these polls, notably the Umma party, have said that they won't accept these results'
ListenDuration: 03:20
South Africa's President Zuma declares his HIV status as testing campaign kicks off.
ListenDuration: 02:27
In northern Kenya, Mandera town authories ban public viewing of local pay TV station.
ListenDuration: 03:38
April 22nd
Governors of Nigeria's northern states meet as tension simmers over the latest violence.
ListenDuration: 03:09
Can Africa's dilapidated railways be transformed into a viable transport system?
ListenDuration: 02:45
Rwandan opposition leader and presidential hopeful Victoire Ingabire granted bail.
ListenDuration: 02:20
Iran's President Ahmadinejad is in Africa, we analyse the burgeoning friendships.
ListenDuration: 03:02
April 21st
Kenya Airways resume flights to Europe as airports re-open.
ListenDuration: 04:20
One of Rwanda's main opposition leaders has been detained by police.
ListenDuration: 03:10
Mogadishu residents in shock after the gruesome deaths of five people.
ListenDuration: 01:54
April 20th
Sudan PCP party's Hassan al-Turabi rules out alliance with President Bashir.
ListenDuration: 03:29
Observers accuse Sudanese authorities in the south of harassment and intimidation.
ListenDuration: 02:15
Prisoners go on the rampage in the main prison in Kaduna, Nigeria.
ListenDuration: 02:41
Two senior generals suspended and arrested in Rwanda
ListenDuration: 04:16
April 19th
South Africa's firebrand youth leader Julius Malema to face an ANC disciplinary hearing.
ListenDuration: 02:36
New report criticises al-Shabab's iron rule in areas it controls in Somalia.
ListenDuration: 03:13
Industry experts say African airlines will suffer serious losses following the 5-day flight ban.
ListenDuration: 02:51
A top Swazi lawyer wins an environmental award for exposing human rights abuses.
ListenDuration: 02:27
April 16th
An assessment of the election process in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
ListenDuration: 03:44
Kizza Besigye wins FDC's nomination to run in Uganda's election
ListenDuration: 03:27
As the vote count begins we ask were the SPLM satisfied with the process
ListenDuration: 04:04
The economic impact to Africa of the volcanic ash cloud grounding flights in Europe.
ListenDuration: 02:28
April 14th
Reaction to General Ibrahim Babangida's announcement that he is ready to step back into the political arena.
ListenDuration: 03:29
Nigeria's acting president Goodluck Jonathan has been speaking to the BBC's Jamilah Tangaza.
ListenDuration: 04:00
Nigeria's acting president says he has not spoken to President Yar'Adua since his return.
ListenDuration: 03:34
April 13th
Election Commissioner confident that two days is sufficient to complete Sudan's elections.
ListenDuration: 02:09
Lawmakers in north-eastern Nigeria debate a law to regulate the preaching of Islam in Borno State.
ListenDuration: 01:41
No music on the airwaves in Mogadishu as radio stations heed the order of Islamic militants.
ListenDuration: 01:50
Will the National Election Commission's two-day voting extension be sufficient to allow everyone to vote?
ListenDuration: 10:35
April 9th
Racial tension mounts in South Africa ahead of the funeral of AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche.
ListenDuration: 01:38
Kenyan foreign minister Moses Wetangula describes his country's relations with South Sudan.
ListenDuration: 02:37
Terreblanche funeral: Thousands of white mourners sing the anthem of apartheid South Africa
ListenDuration: 03:51
April 7th
The SPLM boycott Sudan's elections in all but two states in the north.
ListenDuration: 07:42
How easy is it for the media to work ahead of Sunday's elections?
ListenDuration: 06:19
President of the south, Salva Kiir Mayardit, explains why their candidate is no longer running for president.
ListenDuration: 08:52
The European Union decide to withdraw their observers from the troubled western region of Darfur.
ListenDuration: 01:52
April 5th
The UN and DRCongo army say they have regained control of Mbandaka airport from armed insurgents.
ListenDuration: 03:42
South Africa's government dispel fears that the killing of a far right leader could ignite racial tension.
ListenDuration: 07:00
April 1st
Why all of Nigeria's attention has been captured by the drama of ministers angling for a spot in the new cabinet.
ListenDuration: 01:52
A group of military officers in Guinea Bissau say they have toppled the president and taken power.
ListenDuration: 02:27
Major northern opposition parties in Sudan say they will boycott the presidential election due in ten days time.
ListenDuration: 08:52
President al-Bashir's main rival in the Sudanese elections pulls out.
ListenDuration: 07:44
Features
Candidates of African descent hit the election trail.
ListenDuration: 03:23
The old boys are talking more cr*p than usual
ListenDuration: 03:27
'The one thing that connects the British voter to the Kenyan voter is anger over sleaze'
ListenDuration: 04:19
Farai Sevenzo's Zimbabwe memories
ListenDuration: 04:55
Foreign footie coaches, overpaid and over here
ListenDuration: 03:38
On the thirtieth anniversary of independence in Zimbabwe, is there much to celebrate?
ListenDuration: 03:42
The Kenyan professor who's after the top job.
ListenDuration: 03:02
Debating the benefits of selective assassination
ListenDuration: 04:16
Nigerians watch and hope for the best.
ListenDuration: 03:47
A South African court has ruled a liberation song from the apartheid era unconstitutional. What do South Africans think of the song?
ListenDuration: 06:22
