Africa news timeline March 10
Last updated: 20 april, 2010 - 13:17 GMT
News Stories
March 30th
Rwanda's Minister of Justice answers criticisms of his country's human rights record.
ListenDuration: 03:08
Concern over the printing of ballot papers fuels demands for elections to be delayed.
ListenDuration: 03:02
Sudan's president says elections must take place on time or the referendum date for the south will shift.
ListenDuration: 01:31
March 29th
Ugandan rebels, the LRA are accused of new massacres in the DR Congo
The military junta gives details of the 12 high profile arrests made this morning.
ListenDuration: 02:24
Several members of Niger's former government have been arrested by the military regime.
ListenDuration: 01:58
Hundreds of Somalis march through Mogadishu, protesting against al-Shabab militants.
ListenDuration: 01:39
March 26th
Five weeks on from the coup that toppled President Tandja, we have an update from Niger.
ListenDuration: 03:15
Reaction to the scandal in the Catholic church from a top member of Africa's clergy.
ListenDuration: 02:55
Nigeria's Acting President tries to get the shaky peace process in the Niger Delta back on its feet.
ListenDuration: 01:37
Mob Justice in Burundi: are the authorities complicit in the killings of suspected criminals?
ListenDuration: 02:42
March 25th
Police in Somalia demolish hundreds of houses near Mogadishu airport.
ListenDuration: 03:56
Jacob Zuma addresses Ugandan parliament and talks business.
ListenDuration: 03:52
President Zuma of South Africa is on a two day state visit to Uganda.
ListenDuration: 01:24
Sierra Leone's health workers' strike enters its second week.
ListenDuration: 03:51
March 24th
After last week's dismissals Nigeria's acting president submits his list of cabinet nominees to the senate.
ListenDuration: 05:28
Is Ethiopia's government becoming increasingly repressive?
ListenDuration: 03:53
One of Rwanda's main opposition leaders is prevented from leaving the country.
ListenDuration: 01:55
Zambian police block plans to kick off a 'red card' campaign against President Banda's rule.
ListenDuration: 02:19
March 23rd
The West African peacekeeping force, Ecomog evaluates its first twenty years.
ListenDuration: 03:43
Nigerian police charge dozens of people after the brutal killings in Plateau State.
ListenDuration: 02:47
No election postponement in South Sudan says a government minister.
ListenDuration: 02:44
Kenya's police embarrassed by the release of a terror suspect from their custody.
ListenDuration: 03:15
March 22nd
Joaquim Chissano on how better to protect Africa's future water supply.
ListenDuration: 03:32
Kenya launches the process of drawing up a new national voter registration list.
ListenDuration: 03:35
Tanzania's hopes of selling stockpiles of ivory have received a blow in Doha.
ListenDuration: 02:59
Kenya launches a new voters registration process today.
ListenDuration: 02:26
March 18th
At least ten senior Gambian officials are charged with plotting to overthrow President Jammeh
ListenDuration: 01:24
Malawi Council of Churches meeting discusses homosexuality.
ListenDuration: 03:22
Nigeria's acting president takes decisive action by dissolving the cabinet.
ListenDuration: 02:42
Nigeria's Nobel Prize winning writer gives his support to the country's acting President for dissolving the cabinet
ListenDuration: 05:43
March 16th
Can South Africa's President Zuma assuage tensions in Zimbabwe's delicate coalition government?
ListenDuration: 03:01
Algeria hosts a regional security summit in the face of threats from al-Qaeda of the Maghreb.
ListenDuration: 02:11
Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi suggests Nigeria be divided along religious lines into two states.
ListenDuration: 01:34
What are President Zuma's expectations of his trip to neighbouring Zimbabwe?
ListenDuration: 01:59
March 15th
Experts meet in Uganda to look at how climate change will effect water supplies.
ListenDuration: 03:53
Nigerian militants detonate explosions outside a government building in Warri, Delta State.
ListenDuration: 05:25
March 10th
Egypt's top Muslim cleric Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi has died.
ListenDuration: 01:38
Plateau state announce the arrest of up to 100 suspects in connection with Sunday's devastating attacks.
ListenDuration: 03:00
A protest march in Nigeria to demand an end to President Yar'Adua's rule.
ListenDuration: 07:00
March 8th
Over 500 feared dead following horrific attacks near Jos in central Nigeria.
ListenDuration: 02:32
Women from Uganda's opposition protest on the streets against bad governance.
ListenDuration: 03:00
Tension remains in Nigeria's Plateau State as the authorities there refuse to accept blame for the 500 killed in Jos violence.
ListenDuration: 08:54
March 5th
16 people injured in two grenade attacks in Rwanda's capital.
ListenDuration: 03:15
The latest on recovery efforts in Eastern Uganda following this week's deadly landslides.
ListenDuration: 03:00
Counting begins after the Presidential poll in Togo.
ListenDuration: 02:43
March 4th
Prime Minister Brown rejects South African President Jacob Zuma's call to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe.
ListenDuration: 06:09
The UN begins discussion of a gradual withdrawal of its peace keeping mission from DR Congo.
ListenDuration: 02:54
Polling stations open in Togo for the election of a new president.
ListenDuration: 03:13
Voting in Togo's presidential election begins.
ListenDuration: 02:59
March 2nd
Over 100 people have been killed in a landslide in the eastern region of Bududa in Uganda.
ListenDuration: 02:16
The widow of former Rwandan president Habyarimana arrested in France on genocide charges.
ListenDuration: 02:30
UN peacekeepers in Chad have their mandate extended until May.
ListenDuration: 01:25
With just one hundred days to World Cup 2010, how prepared is South Africa to host the beautiful game?
ListenDuration: 05:41
March 1st
An Anglican cleric leads a campaign to protest against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill
ListenDuration: 03:31
Sudan's President el-Bashir kick-starts the southern leg of his presidential campaign in Juba
ListenDuration: 02:51
The head of Niger's military junta finally addresses the nation.
ListenDuration: 02:44
Sudan's President Bashir to launch his re-election bid in South Sudan.
ListenDuration: 02:24
Features
Son of Bob Marley discusses his autobiography.
ListenDuration: 04:59
Elizabeth Ohene admits to a morbid fascination with funerals
ListenDuration: 03:55
New law rejigs Cameroon's election commission
ListenDuration: 03:01
People in Uganda and Ghana assess the benefits of oil discoveries in their countries.
Meet Amira Kheir, a young Sudanese singer based in London.
Farai Sevenzo warns of a month of backstabbing
ListenDuration: 03:53
Youssou N'dour on why he's turned to reggae
ListenDuration: 06:56
How one woman with HIV uses the internet to connect
ListenDuration: 03:48
Why Kenyan parents are opting to send their children to boarding school at as young as two
ListenDuration: 04:36
Elizabeth Ohene ponders the fine line between respect and absurdity in Ghana.
ListenDuration: 03:46
The experiences of women living with HIV in Uganda and Sierra Leone.
ListenDuration: 03:25
The use and abuse of passports is in the thoughts of writer Farai Sevenzo.
ListenDuration: 05:05
