African news timeline June 10
Last updated: 19 august, 2010 - 13:47 GMT
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June 30th
The government ban the Super Eagles from taking part in international competitions for two years
ListenDuration: 01:18
The BBC's Sophie Ikenye speaks to Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, a professor of African Studies at the University of North Carolina
ListenDuration: 03:45
Plans to increase ownership in the mining sector
ListenDuration: 01:23
BBC Network Africa's Bola Mosuro speaks to our correspondent in Kinshasa, Thomas Fessy
ListenDuration: 04:44
June 29th
Prime Minister Raila Odinga undergoes emergency surgery
ListenDuration: 01:01
First hint of tension in Guinea's presidential poll - a leading party say the vote has been marred by fraud
ListenDuration: 01:55
Belgium's King Albert II arrives but for many his visit is inappropriate
ListenDuration: 01:59
Sudan to close all joint land borders with Libya to deter rebels
ListenDuration: 01:59
June 28th
Ebenezer Ofori, a survivor, speaks to the BBC's Akwasi Sarpong
ListenDuration: 00:43
Interview with Noah Kwarteng a reporter for the local Ghanaian radio station Solar FM
ListenDuration: 02:33
The BBC's Prime Ndikumagenge reports from Bujumbura
ListenDuration: 03:02
Why is voter turnout so low?
ListenDuration: 02:11
The verdict from football fans at a sports centre in Guguletu, a township in Cape Town
ListenDuration: 03:50
Reaction from Ghana to the national team's success in South Africa
ListenDuration: 01:48
June 23rd
Kenyan prisoners to participate in the constitution referendum
ListenDuration: 02:45
JEM claim to have captured tanks and armed forces from the Sudanese army
ListenDuration: 02:51
The Sudanese government say JEM started this round of fighting
ListenDuration: 02:05
South Africa become the first host to fail to progress onto the second round of the World Cup
ListenDuration: 03:54
Can Ghana redeem Africa's image by getting a good result against Germany tonight?
ListenDuration: 01:41
June 22nd
An angry scuffle breaks in Nigeria's House of Representatives
ListenDuration: 02:54
A train crash claims dozens of lives in Congo Brazzaville
ListenDuration: 01:44
Mourning in Australia as the the plane carrying 11 mining executives is found in Congo Brazzaville
ListenDuration: 02:00
June 21st
Floods kill more than 20
ListenDuration: 01:30
Six arrested in South Africa after the shooting of Kayumba Nyamwasa
ListenDuration: 01:24
One of Australia's richest men among the 11 missing in a suspected plane crash in Cameroon
ListenDuration: 03:02
Is a famine looming in Niger?
ListenDuration: 02:59
June 18th
A British audit report says that aid invested by the UK to support Africa's education systems is not money well spent
ListenDuration: 02:19
Fighting desertification with a proposed green wall of trees and plants stretching from west to east
ListenDuration: 02:56
Algeria face England in a crucial World Cup match
ListenDuration: 04:02
June 16th
Two Sudanese rebel leaders, indicted for war crimes, surrender to the international criminal court
ListenDuration: 01:05
The Sudanese government appoint an oil minister from the south's SPLM
ListenDuration: 03:30
June 15th
BP begin drilling for oil in Angola but could an oil leak crisis be averted?
ListenDuration: 02:46
Political tensions rise over Kenya's draft constitution- three MP's arrested
ListenDuration: 01:38
The Ugandan army blames Sudanese Janjaweed militia - not the LRA - for a deadly ambush in May
ListenDuration: 02:28
Refugee numbers are down in Africa for the ninth year running - but the number of internally displaced people is increasing
ListenDuration: 03:08
June 14th
An explosion kills five people at a rally in Kenya
ListenDuration: 03:20
Hopes from Yaounde as Cameroon begin their bid for World Cup glory
ListenDuration: 01:00
Kenya's government promise to hunt down those behind the grenade attack at a rally against the draft constitution
ListenDuration: 02:45
June 9th
A dozen suspects face trial after their arrest in the Gambia's biggest drug bust
ListenDuration: 01:16
Four ministers resign over the government's failure to restore order to Somalia.
ListenDuration: 02:47
A South African newspaper gains access to the tender documents related to contracts awarded for staging the World Cup
ListenDuration: 02:39
June 8th
$1 billion cocaine haul seized by investigators in the Gambia
ListenDuration: 02:46
Africa's first ever high speed train makes its debut trip in South Africa
ListenDuration: 02:44
The United Nations refugee agency say it has been ordered out of Libya
ListenDuration: 02:15
June 7th
US Vice President Joe Biden begins a short tour of Africa
ListenDuration: 01:56
Uganda's new weapon against drug smuggling
ListenDuration: 01:47
President John Atta Mills on Ghana's prospects at the World Cup
ListenDuration: 03:33
June 3rd
Ghana appeal for clemency for six of its citizens facing the death penalty in Libya
ListenDuration: 02:57
The director of a leading human rights group in the Democratic Republic of Congo is found dead
ListenDuration: 02:09
The sister and aide of the Niger Delta's former governor are found guilty of laundering millions in public funds
ListenDuration: 02:13
June 1st
Demonstration in Namibia for three HIV positive women who say they were sterilised without their informed consent
ListenDuration: 02:26
Five contenders in Burundi's presidential race pull out
ListenDuration: 01:54
Ghanaians are hit by massive hikes in their electricity and water bills
ListenDuration: 03:30
Africa and France thrash out issues of UN Security Council allocation
ListenDuration: 01:48
features
The BBC's Dayo Yusef looks at the evolution of music from the Democratic Republic of Congo
ListenDuration: 04:13
The BBC's Thomas Fessy looks back at the past 50 years
ListenDuration: 06:02
How do visitors to South Africa rate the World Cup so far?
ListenDuration: 03:17
Weekend Network Africa's Audrey Brown meets Carlou D
ListenDuration: 08:31
Interview with John Ghazvinian, author of "Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil"
ListenDuration: 03:11
A cure for depression Resident President style
ListenDuration: 04:40
Prime Minister Gilbert Houngbo discusses Togo's new coalition government with the BBC's Joseph Warungu
ListenDuration: 04:14
Elizabeth Ohene looks at why insults are becoming the norm in Ghana
ListenDuration: 03:50
The BBC goes on a journey across Africa's football 'factory', the West African region that produces the best footballers.
