2007 in Africa

International organizations

African union

See also: African Union

  • the 8th top of the African Union was held from January 28th to 31st 2007 with Addis-Abeba. The Darfur and the Somalia were the principal points with the day order. The president of the Commission of the African Union Alpha Oumar Konaré launched “ a call to our Sudanese brothers, government and rebels, so that peace is allocated to Darfur, so that they stop the attacks and the bombardments ” and invited the African countries to quickly set up the force of peace in Somalia.
    • the Ghanaian president , John Kufuor, was selected to take the presidency of the African Union for the year 2007.
    • the heads of state and government indicated five “wise”, highly respected African personalities which made an exceptional contribution to the cause of peace, safety and development on the continent: Brigalia Bam, president of the Independent electoral commission of the South Africa, Elisabeth Dough, president of the Constitutional court of the Benign , Salim Ahmed Salim, former general secretary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and current special correspondent of the African Union to the Darfur, Miguel Trovoada, former president of Sao Tome and Principe and Ahmed Ben Bella, former president Algeria N. These 5 wise will be able to come to a conclusion about all the related questions with the promotion and the maintenance of peace, safety and stability in Africa.
    • the General secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, intervened with the meeting of opening to present its action plan for Africa, in particular on the conflicts and the consequences of climate warming.

  • the 9th top of the heads of state and government of the African Union opened on July 2nd with Accra (Ghana). The day order relates to the constitution of a African government to prepare the United States of Africa. The African leaders are divided on this question. The president Libya N Mouammar Kadhafi who carries out the combat for this idea, is supported by the president Senegal board Abdoulaye Wade and chair it Gabon board Omar Bongo Ondimba. On the other hand, the South-African president Thabo Mbeki finds premature the institution of this government Panafrican and prefers a reinforcement of the sous-régionales organizations. The president of the commission of the African Union, Alpha Oumar Konaré gave his support for the project of Panafrican government by stating that “ the battle for the United States of Africa is the only one which applies to our generation, the only able one to bring answers to the thousand problems of the African populations ”.

The Community of the sahélo-Saharan States

See also: the Community of the sahélo-Saharan States

The 9th top of Cen-Sad took place June 2nd and 3rd with Syrte (Libya), under the presidency of the Head of Libyan State Mouammar Kadhafi, President-in-Office of the organization. The day order related to food safety, the natural stock management and the creation of a free exchange zone. Cen-Sad accommodated two new countries: The Guinea and the the Comoros. The African leaders launched calls with peace to Somalia and Sudan, where they exhort different the parties to ratify the peace agreement and refuse the intervention of the foreign forces.

Economic community of the States of West Africa

See also: Economic community of the States of West Africa

  • Summit of Ouagadougou: the 31 E top of the African western organization was held with Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) on January 19th, 2007. The Gambia and the Cape Verde were absent from this top. At the institutional level, the top adopted the transformation of the executive secretariat by a commission, chaired by the Ghanaian Mohamed Ibn Chambas. The Burkinabe president Blaise Compaoré becomes President-in-Office. The crisis of the Ivory Coast and the general strike started by the trade unions and the opposition in Guinea also were with the day order. CEDEAO decided the sending of a regional mediation made up of the Senegalese presidents Abdoulaye Wade and Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo.
  • Summit of Abuja: the Heads of State of CEDEAO met in Abuja for the 32e top of the African western organization. They adopted the “Vision strategic” consisting in transforming West Africa into an area without border from here at 2020.

Economic community and monetarist of central Africa

See also: Economic community and monetarist of central Africa

The 8th top of the Economic community and monetarist of central Africa (CEMAC) was taken place with Ndjamena (Chad) in the presence of the presidents équato-Guinean Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Chad IEN Idriss Déby Itno, Central African François Bozize, Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso, Gabon board Omar Bongo Ondimba, saotoméen Fradique de Menezes and of the Prime Minister Cameroun board Ephraim Inoni, as well as president Libya N, Mouammar Kadhafi, invited honor. In their final declaration, the Heads of States and government of the organization called with the construction of the United States of Africa.

Economic union and monetarist West African (UEMOA)

See also: economic Union and monetarist West African

The Community of East Africa

See also: the Community of East Africa

Common Market of the States of Southern Africa and the East

See also: Common Market of the States of Southern Africa and the East

  • the 12th top of the Heads of State of the Common Market of the States of Southern Africa and the East (Comesa) was held with Nairobi May 22nd and 23rd 2007 in the presence of the presidents Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe, Rwanda is Paul Kagame, Djibouti in Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Kenya N Mwai Kibaki, Zambia N Levy Mwanawasa, of the Prime Minister Ethiopia N Meles Zenawi, of the first vice-president Sudan board Salva Kiir and of the king of the Swaziland Mswati III. The order of the cheek related in particular to the adoption of an agreement laying down the methods of a customs union for 2008. Mwai Kibaki took the rotating presidency of the organization and Robert Mugabe became vice-president.

Other organizations

  • Worldwide social forum: the 7th edition of the Worldwide social forum was held with Nairobi, with the Kenya from January 20th to 25th 2007. It brought together 57.000 participants.

  • Authority of the basin of Volta: on January 19th, 2007 with Ouagadougou, in margin of the top of the Economic community of the States of West Africa, the Heads of State of the countries have in division the basin of the Volta signed of convention establishing statute of the Volta river and of the Autorité of the basin of Volta. Blaise Compaoré, president of the Burkina Faso was indicated as President-in-Office of the conference of the Heads of State of the Authority for a two years mandate.

  • Forum of the people: the 6th edition of the gathering altermondialism|altermondialist]] was held with Sikasso with the Mali from June 4th to 8th 2007 with representatives of the social movements of several African countries (Mali, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Guinea) and Westerners. The participants denounced a fall of the development assistance towards Africa on behalf of the countries of the G8 contrary to their promises made in 2005 in Scotland.

Policy

Elections

  • Algeria: With the legislative elections, the face of national release (FLN), directed by the chief of the Algerian government Abdelaziz Belkhadem, arrived at the head with 136 seats out of 389, according to the preliminary assessment announced by the Local government agency and Minister of Interior Department Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni. The democratic national Gathering (RND), led by the former chief of the government Ahmed Ouyahia, and the Mouvement of the company for peace (MSP, islamist moderate) arrive respectively in 2nd and 3rd positions with 61 and 52 seats. The Poll proceeded in the calm one but with a weak participation of 35,65%. The election day before, an bomb attack had struck the town of Constantine, making at least a death. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (ex salafist Group for preaching and the combat) had to call with the boycott, threatening the voters to make " large a péché" while taking part in it.

  • Burkina Faso : the legislative elections organized on May 6th, 2007 were gained by the Congrès for the democracy and progress (CDP).

  • Gabon: Of the partial legislative elections was organized on June 10th, 2007 in 20 districts where the legislative elections of December 2006 had been invalidated by the constitutional court. The Gabonese Democratic party (chairman, with the capacity) gained 11 of the 20 seats. The chairman has the absolute majority at the Parliament.

  • Lesotho: Of the legislative elections was held in the calm one in the 80 districts of the country. Whereas a mission of the Communauté of development of Southern Africa (SADC) estimated that voting operations had been in " essence; credible, peaceful and transparent”, Tom Thabane, which carries out Convention basotho (ABC) regrets of the important frauds. They were gained by the Congrès of Lesotho for the democracy (LCD) of the Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili.

  • Madagascar: the legislative elections of the 23 September 2007 were gained by the party Tiako I Madagasikara (TIM, I like Madagascar) who obtained 106 seats out of 127.

  • Mali:

    • the election of the national advisers was held on March 18th, 2007.
    • the presidential election was held in calm on April 29th, 2007. Outgoing president Amadou Toumani Touré was re-elected with the ptremier turn with more than 70% of the voices but the oppostion disputes these results.
    • the legislative elections will take place in July.
  • Mauritania:
    • the senatorial elections are held the January 22nd (1st turn) and on February 4th (second turn). For resulting from the first turn, 38 seats were provided on the 56, including 23 gained seats independent candidates and 8 by Coalition with the forces with the democratic change (opposition to the former president Maaouiya Ould Taya.
    • the first turn of the presidential election Mauritanian of 2007, was held on March 11th, 2007 in the calm one except for an armed attack against an office of the prefecture in Kaedi resulting in the death of a guard. Sidi Ould Sheik Abdallahi arrived at the head, followed Ahmed Ould Daddah. (See also on Wikinews: NR: Mauritania: first turn of the presidential election). With the second turn, Sidi Ould Sheik Abdallahi carried it with 52,89 of the voices.

  • Nigeria: the regional elections of April 14th and the legislative elections presidential and of April 21st were held in a climate of violence making at least 200 died according to the European Union”. Umaru Yar' adua was declared elected.

  • Senegal:

    • the presidential election was held on February 25th, 2007. The outgoing president Abdoulaye Wade was re-elected with the first turn. (See also on Wikinews: NR: Senegal: the Constitutional council confirms the re-election of Abdoulaye Wade to the first turn)
    • Of the legislative elections were to take place on February 25th, 2007. But, following the cancellation of an order in Council on the distribution of the deputies by the Council of State, they are deferred to June 3rd. Boycotted by the principal parties of the opposition, they were gained by presidential coalition SOPI 2007.

  • Seychelles : the legislative elections were held from May 10th to 12th 2007 and were gained by the party in power, the popular Front progressist of Seychelles (FPPS).

  • Sierra Leone: Of the legislative elections and presidential were organized the 11 August 2007. The legislative elections were gained by the opposition. At the first turn of the presidential election, Ernest Bai Koroma of the Congress of all people (APC), arrived at the head with 44,3% of the voices in front of the outgoing vice-president, Solomon Berewa which obtains 38,3%. September 8th, Ernest Bai Koroma gained the second turn of the presidential election with 54,6% of the voices.

  • Togo: the elections legislative were held in calm on October 15th, 2007.

Governments

Conflicts and civil wars

Darfur

See also: Darfur, Civil war in Darfur

  • Radhika Coomaraswamy, representing special the United Nations for the children in the armed conflicts finished a round with the Sudan and affirmed that the numbers of children soldiers continue to increase.

  • In a report published with Geneva, the special mission of the Conseil of the human rights of the the United Nations on the situation in the Sudanese area of Darfur concludes that “ the war crimes and the crimes against humanity continue in the area ”, showing the government to have orchestrated itself and taken part in these crimes. The mission, chaired by Jody Williams, had inquired for one month apart from the country, the Sudanese government not granting the authorization to him to inquire inside the country
  • an International Conference into Darfur was organized on June 25th with Paris by the France in the presence of the principal powers of the international community, of which the China and the the United States, each one affirming to want to redouble efforts to put a term at the civil war. The African Union, which had not been concerted for this initiative carried out by the French Minister for the Foreign affairs, Bernard Kouchner, boycotted this conference.
  • an International Conference on the Darfur was held on July 16th with Tripoli with representatives of the the United Nations, African Union and de15 country, including five permanent Member States of the Safety advice, the Sudan, the Libya, the Chad, the Egypt and the Érythrée. The conference ended in a call to continue the peace process in which the African Union and UNO play a main role. None the rebellious groups of Darfur took part in the conference. The participants announced to a meeting with the rebellious groups not signatory of the peace agreement of May 2006 would take place Arusha (Tanzania) next from August 3rd to 5th to fix the date and the place for negotiations between government and rebels. July 6th, the United front for the release and the development was created by 5 rebellious factions of the Darfur: two rival tendencies of the Armed with release of Sudan, Forces of the revolutionary democratic Face, the National movement for the reform and the development and the federal democratic Alliance of Sudan, for the forthcoming negotiations on the payment of the conflict.
  • the Safety advice of the United Nations unanimously adopted the resolution 1769 which authorizes the deployment of a hybrid force UNO/African Union with the Darfur. This force, of a cost estimated at 2 billion dollars, named Unamid, will consist of approximately 26.000 soldiers and police officers. The Sudanese government stated on August 1st to approve this resolution.

Guinea

See also: General strike in Guinea of 2007

Environment

See also: Gate: environment

  • Oil slick in Cameroun: Of the tons of crude oil, escaped of the terminal of the Chad-Cameroun pipeline flows in the sea with Ebome, a locality located at 6 km of the town of Kribi, at the south of the Cameroun, since January 16th, making fear a Oil slick threatening fish and the sinners

Natural disasters and human

  • Madagascar: A Cyclone baptized Indlala struck the north of the country between the 15 and on March 17th making 88 died and 137.605 disaster victims. The cyclone damaged 93 administrative buildings, 35 schools, 43 hospitals and 36 bridges, and were destroyed 36.501 hectares of culture.

Development

Water

Health

  • the regional office of the the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Africa held its 57e session with Brazzaville. Over the period 2008/2009, it fixed its programme budgeting at 1 billion 100 million dollars by giving the priority to the diseases known as priority, VIH/SIDA, the Tuberculose, the Paludisme, the Choléra, the Onchocercose (blindness of the rivers) and the Diabète.

Cholera

See also: Cholera

  • Republic of Congo: an cholera epidemic was declared with Point-Black in January and was spread until Brazzaville. February 7th, 3.290 cases were listed, causing the death of 65 people. The UNICEF enters 82 dead at February 14th.
  • Angola: The cholera epidemic which was declared in the province of Huambo in November 2006 ended in June 2007. This epidemic touched 866 people and makes 43 dead.
  • Senegal: an cholera epidemic prevails since August 3rd. Six areas (Diourbel, Fatick, Thiès, Dakar, Saint-Louis and Louga) are touched and 1.168 cases were listed, including 4 mortals.

Chikungunya

See also: Chikungunya

  • Gabon: an epidemic of Chikungunya currently takes place in Gabon.

Drépanocytose

See also: Drépanocytose

Yellow fever

See also: Yellow fever

Hemorrhagic fever Ebola

See also: Ebolavirus

  • Uganda: An epidemic due to a new stock of the virus of the hemorrhagic fever Ebola, which was propagated in three zones of the district of Bundibugyo, in the west of the country. At December 2nd, 61 cases were listed including 18 mortals

  • Democratic republic of Congo: An epidemic of Fever ébola prevailed from April at October with the Kasaï-Westerner, a province in the center of the country. 264 suspect cases were recorded including 26 confirmed. The health authorities recorded 187 deaths.

Avian flu

See also: Avian flu

  • Nigeria: A first case of human death was recorded in Nigeria on January 17th with Lagos.
  • Ghana: two hearths of avian influenzas were discovered, the first at the beginning of May close to Tema, in the east, the second with Sunyani, in the north of the country.

Meningitis

See also: Meningitis

  • Burkina Faso : an epidemic of meningitis cérébro-spinale prevails since the beginning of the year. At April 18th, 24.633 cases were listed causing the death of 1.625 people according to official results announced by the ministry for health. The authorities undertook a vast campaign of vaccination to try to stop the epidemic. Burkina Faso had launched a call to the international community in order to obtain a help of 800 franc million CFA for the purchase of vaccines.

Paludism

See also: Paludism

  • Mali: the professor Malian Ogobara Doumbo, director of the Research center and formation on paludism, received on June 13rd, 2007 the Prix Christophe Merieux.

AIDS

See also: Syndrome of acquired immunodéficience

  • Cameroun: The government decided on April 19th, 2007 to return free the antirétroviraux for the people living with Vih/Sida. This measurement, which should touch in 2007,43 000 people, actually returned into force on May 2nd.
  • Africa: In a report/ratio of bearing June 2007 on the assessment of the multinational Programme of fight against AIDS for Africa (MAP) 2000-2006, the the World Bank note which the epidemic of AIDS starts to slow down in Uganda, with the Kenya and the Zimbabwe and in the urban areas of Ethiopia, of the Rwanda, the Burundi, the Malawi and the Zambia. The report/ratio specifies that the last year, 25 million Africans is HIV positive and 2 million died about it.

Tuberculosis

See also: Tuberculosis

  • In a report published by Forum for Collaborative HIV Research (Washington - the United States), the Co-epidemic mortal HIV/Tuberculose is quickly propagated in sub-Saharan Africa where half of the new cases of tuberculosis are associated to the HIV. The death rate of the people reached of the HIV and tuberculosis is five times higher reached those of the only tuberculosis. The authors of the report/ratio call with urgent measures like the development of fast diagnostic tests of resistant tuberculosis in the positive adult and child HIV

Education

See also: Gate: education

  • Uganda : Starting from the re-entry of February 2007, the pupils having made a success of the examination of end of primary cycle will be able to reach free the secondary thanks to the installation of universal secondary education.

  • a International Conference on the removal of the school expenses , Co-organized by the Association for the development of education in Africa (ADEA), UNICEF and the the World Bank brought together from June 19th to 22nd with Bamako 23 delegations, certain conduits by ministers. The participants adopted a declaration, said declaration of Bamako, pleading so that each child “ is provided education for independently of the financial capacity of the families”. She recognizes that each country, confronted with different realities and challenges, must “ find clean solutions, adapted with her realities ”.

    • Dined Craissati, one of the person in charge of the UNICEF estimates that if the sub-Saharan Africa wants to achieve the goals of the Éducation for all (EPT) from here 2015, it will be necessary to multiply by three the number of children having access to the school.

Rights of the child

See also: Right of the child

  • Day of the African child: The Day of the African child was celebrated on June 16th on all the continent. The topic of this year was the fight against the traffic of the children.
  • migrant Children: The Ong Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on July 26th a report entitled Unwelcome Responsibilities: Spain' S Failure to Protect the Rights off Unaccompanied Migrating Children in the Canary Islands (annoying Responsibilities: Incapacity of Spain to protect the rights of the migrant children not accompanied in the Canary islands) where she denounces the detention conditions of the African migrant children made clandestinely at the the Canaries. Between 400 and 500 children are held in over-populated reception centres, with deplorable conditions of hygienes. they are underfed and undergo ill treatments and sexual harassments.
  • Traffic of children : ONG Frenchwoman the Arch of Zoe tried to transfer in France 103 children Sudan board or Chad IEN from less than 10 years under cover from an humanitarian operation for orphan children who would have being entrusted to families of reception. The authorities Chad iennes stopped this operation on October 25th and decree six members of the organization to the airport of Abéché at the time of the loading. Noah's Ark, who was done on the spot called Children rescue would have hidden the true motivations of this operation. The authorities Frenchwoman and other ONG present on the spot condemned this operation. The Chadian president, Idriss Déby evoking a traffic of children, promised judicaires continuations against the members of the organization who incur until the 20 years of forced labors. Three French journalists, a pilot of Belgian plane and seven airline hostesses Spanish were also challenged, as well as a sub-prefect and a chief of district Chadians. The members of association and the journalists were accused of removal of children and swindle, the Spanish personnel and the two Chadians of complicities. They all were transferred to Djamena following the dispossession from the jurisdiction from Abéché to the profit from that from Djamena by the Supreme court.

children soldiers

See also: Child soldier

  • an International Conference on the children soldiers was held with Paris on February 6th.
    • Burundi: Francoise Ngendahayo, Burundian Minister for the National solidarity and the Rights of the human person, that Burundi considered “in this vast movement of promotion of the rights of L `man to carry out the release of the child-soldiers still held” in the prisons.
    • Benign: In margin of this top, Mariam Aladji Profit Diallo, Minister Beninese for the Foreign affairs, wishes to mobilize the international community, and particularly the Economic community of the States of West Africa (CEDEAO) on the gravity of the children soldiers and reaffirmed his country wished that enrôlement children become a crime against humanity.
  • Chad: The government signed on May 9th an agreement with the UNICEF providing the protection and the demobilization of the enlisted children in the Chadian national army. By signing this agreement, the government recognizes for the first time the presence of children in the rows of the army.
  • Central Africa: The former rebels of the Union of the democratic forces for the gathering (UFDR), which signed an peace agreement with the Central African government on April 13rd, indicated on May 21st to the Agence France-Press (Afp) to have accepted the demobilization of more than 400 children old soldiers from 13 to 17 years.
  • Democratic republic of Congo: According to the Mission of the United Nations as a Democratic republic of Congo (Monuc), the militia directed by Laurent Nkunda would enlist of force of new children soldiers. These children, often old of less than 12 years, are recruited in the elementary schools and secondaries and on the markets. According to the Coalition to put an end to the use of the child-soldiers, children would be beaten with died in order to sow terror at the others and the girls would be systematically violated.

Human rights

See also: Human rights

Demography

Sport

See also: 2007 in sport

  • African Plays: the 9th African plays proceeded with Algiers in July 2007. The Egypt arrived at the head of many gold medals (74) in front of the Algérie (70) and the South Africa (61). During two weeks, 6.000 athletes met in 27 disciplines.

Athletics

See also: Athletics, Gate: athletics

  • international Semi-marathon of Dakar: The Niger IEN Kabirou daN Malan with gained the 7th edition of the international semi-marathon of Dakar organized by the sénégalaise Federation of athletics (FSA). He traversed the 21km in 1:08 minutes and 56 seconds preceding the Senegal board Sheik Ndiaye (1h 10 minutes 37 seconds) and the Chad IEN Abdel Kerim (1h 11 minutes 10 seconds).

  • Tournament of solidarity: The 15th edition of the Tournament of solidarity was held with Ouagadougou from May 25th to 27th 2007. Athletes of 6 countries (Mali, Burkina Faso, Benign, Togo, Niger and Coast of ivory) took part in this tournament of which the objective is to improve the level of the Athlétisme in West Africa.

  • international Marathon of Nairobi: the 5th edition of the international Marathon of Nairobi was held in the capital Kenya and was gained by the Kenyan John Njoroge Thuita with a stopwatch of 2:15 mn50sec.

Basketball

See also: Basketball, Gate: Basketball

Box

See also: Boxing

Cycling

See also: Cycling, Gate: Cycling