January 1st

  • Burundi: forty six rebels of National liberation armies (FNL), the last rebel movement of Burundi, and three soldiers were killed, at the time of a “operation of scale” of the army close to the capital to the country, Bujumbura, one learned, Sunday, near the army.
  • Madagascar: the Ariary replaced the Malagasy franc like currency.
  • Morocco: installation of a medical cover basic for the active employees and the pensioners of the sectors public and deprived and their having right, that is to say approximately 5 million people (17% of the population).
  • Democratic republic of Congo: torrential rains on Saturday night with Uvira caused a death and carried a hundred houses.

January 2nd

January 3rd

  • Algeria: Announces by the Algerian authorities of the arrest of Nourredine Boudiafi, chief of GIA. This islamist movement had signed many attacks and had terrorized the Algerians of the years during.
  • Mali: Burden 72 hours of the students with the colleges, faculties, and vocational schools and technical of Bamako to give their support for their comrades stopped since nearly one month within the framework of the investigation on the tragic death of the student Mamadou Dramane Traoré.

January 4th

  • Senegal: the meeting of evaluation of the Process of Bamako (2000), bearing on the “democratic institutions and practices in French-speaking space”, was organized with Dakar January 4th and 5th 2005, by the International organization of the francophonie in partnership with Office of the High Commission with the Human rights and promotion of Peace in Senegal.

January 5th

  • Mauritania: The capital punishment against the ex-commander Mauritanian Saleh Ould Henenna marked to be the person in charge of a series of putsches in 2003 and 2004 in Mauritania was required by the criminal Bog manganese Naga court (is of Nouakchott).

January 6th

  • South Africa: Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and figure of the combat against apartheid, announced at the time of a press conference with Johannesbourg, that his/her son Makghato Mandela, 56 years old, is deceased VIH- AIDS. “In speaking is the only means of stopping seeing the AIDS like an extraordinary disease, because which people will go in hell rather than to the paradise”, that which declared fights since years the taboo and discriminations related to this disease.

  • Zambia: Thousands of Zambians expressed Thursday with Lusaka the capital to claim the adoption of a new Constitution before the general elections envisaged in 2006.

January 7th

  • Mali: opening of the 5th edition of the Festival of the desert in Essakane (from January 7th to 9th).

  • Somalia: Nomination of a new Somali government with Nairobi (Kenya) by the Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi.
  • Democratic republic of Congo: An internal report of the United Nations made public on January 7th establishes that soldiers “blue helmets” of various nationalities deployed in DRC made sexual abuses. The soldiers “bought” sexual relationships with old young girls from 12 to 18 years against ridiculous sums (less than 5 dollars) and a little food.

January 9th

  • Sudan: a final peace agreement with the Southern Sudan was signed Sunday with Nairobi between the Sudanese vice-president Ali Osmane Taha and John Garang, chief of the rebellion Southerner of the popular Army of release of Sudan (SPLA), putting a term at the longest conflict in Africa (21 years).

  • West Africa: FAO recommends to the countries of West Africa and the North-West (Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, Algérie) to continue the fight against the locusts pilgrims and to remain vigilant in spite of the recent improvements noted in the actions antiacridiennes. A scientific international seminar on the locust pilgrim will be organized with Dakar from January 11th to 13rd.

January 10th

  • Mauritius: opening of the conference of the Alliance of the small Island states independent (Aosis) on the advanced one of the action plan signed in 1994 with the Barbados.

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  • Gabon: at the time of the top of the African Union (UA) with Libreville, the Gabonese president Omar Bongo Ondimba wished the creation of a African organization of humane intervention urgently in the event of natural disaster or conflict.

  • Sudan: Thousands of Sudanese expressed their joy in the streets of Khartoum following the signature of an peace agreement between the Islamic regime of Khartoum and the rebellion of John Garang Sunday to Nairobi, with the Kenya.

  • Guinea: A forum of the young people for peace and the development was held from January 10th to 12th 2005 with Conakry. Organized by UNDP (Program of the United Nations for the development) in collaboration with the Economic community of the States of West Africa (CEDEAO), it joined together one fifty of young people of the Ivory Coast, the Guinea, the Liberia and the Sierra Leone, representatives of student's associations, persons in charge of the national organizations of the young people, as well as young people of the rural areas and border zones of these four countries. These young people committed themselves contributing to the consolidation of peace and the development of the West African under-area, to) promoting the role of the young people in the peace process and of development in Ivory Coast, and within the Union of the river Mano (UFM, gathering Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone).

January 11th

  • Senegal: Opening to Dakar of an international scientific seminar on the Locust pilgrim on the initiative of the Head of the Senegalese State, Abdoulaye Wade which as well calls “all the Heads of State those of the developed countries as those in the process of be it, at all the financial backers and specialized institutions for the conjugation of our efforts, in order to come to end from this plague which goes back in the mists of time”.

January 12th

  • Kenya: The minister of sport Ochilo Ayacko announces that Kenya wishes to deposit its candidature for the organization of the Olympic Games of 2016.

January 13rd

January 14th

  • Cameroun: Opening of the 1st biennial one of Photography and Visual Arts, with Douala in Cameroun which will be held until January 23rd. On the topic “Traces and Memory” fourteen photographers and seventeen painters African, afro caribéens and Europeans expose their works.

  • Mali: Enclose meeting with Bamako representatives of five producing countries of Africa sub-Saharan of Coton (Mali, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Chad) who insist on the need for the countries developed to reduce the subsidies granted to their farmers. “For the only marketing year 2004-2005, center and West Africa will know a deficit estimated at more than 220 billion FCFA, that is to say more than 400 million dollars, thus worsening poverty by destroying the development efforts”, declared in a joint communiqué.

  • Algeria: The Algerian government and the tribes Kabyles (âarch S) signed an agreement in order to solve the crisis which has prevailed in Kabylie for 4 years. The âarchs wish the recognition of their identity Berbère and an economic revival program for their area.

January 15th

  • South Africa: Thousands of South-African attended Qunu with the funeral of Makgatho Mandela, wire of Nelson Mandela, deceased on January 6th at 54 years of the continuations of the AIDS. The South African president Thabo Mbeki and the former archbishop of the Cape, Desmond Tutu were present.

  • Mozambique: the Great Britain decided to cancel the debt of 150 million dollars contracted by Mozambique announced, Gordon Brown, British Minister for Finances in visit with Maputo. Great Britain will refund to 10% the debt which Mozambique contracted near the the World Bank and other international creditors.

  • Ivory Coast: The Gathering of the republicans, political party of the opposition, announced that its candidate for the presidential election of October 2005 will be Alassane Ouattara.

  • Niger: The National Assembly decided to increase the VAT on current consumer goods, (oil, flour of corn, milk and sugar). The opposition, the trade unions and various civil organizations protested against this measurement which is likely to impoverish even more the population.

  • Rwanda: Eight thousand new jurisdictions “gacaca”, (popular courts charged to consider the presumed authors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994), started the administrative phase of their work. They come to be added the 750 pilot “gacaca” set up since 2001.

January 16th

  • Senegal: death with Dakar of Ndongo Lô popular singer of “Mbalax”, called “star of the suburbs of Dakar”.

  • Guinea-Bissau: The Brésil will offer a treatment of antirétroviraux to the Guinean patient of the AIDS (officially 43.000) continuation an agreement signed by the two countries which include/understand also the training of the medical personnel and the assumption of responsibility of the HIV positives.

  • Benign: Youssouf Samiou, goalkeeper of the junior national team was attacked on the beach of the hotel where the team for the Cut of Africa of the Nations junior was placed and is deceased continuations of these wounds.

January 17th

  • Burundi: The African Fond of development (FAD) granted 36 million dollars in order to allow the financing of the socio-economic reforms of this country devastated by 11 years of civil war.

  • Madagascar: the African Fond of development (FAD) granted a gift of nine million dollars within the framework the fight against the Sida and the sexually transmitted diseases so that Madagascar makes safe the blood transfusions and increases the access to the preventive and curative care.

  • South Africa: With the opening of a meeting joining together 18 Minister for Finance African, Gordon Brown, British Minister for Finances wished the cancellation of the “invaluable” debt of African countries and presented the outline of a fight plan against poverty in Africa which received the support of the old South African president Nelson Mandela.

  • Guinea: The persons in charge of the professional Trade union federation of education announced with the radio the suspension of the strike of the teachers begun on January 10th and which carried primarily on which the wage increase and recruitment in the Public office of all the contractual ones.

  • Algeria: The president of the republic, Abdelaziz Bouteflika decided measurements of thanks to the profit of the held people condemned definitively, at the time of the celebration of the Aïd to el-Kebir. This collective grace should allow the release of 5065 condemned.

January 18th

  • Sudan: A vaccination campaign against the Poliomyélite began in the Sudanese States from the the Nile Supérieur and Bahr el-Ghazal. A million children of less than five years will have to be vaccinated soon.

January 19th

  • Senegal: The athlete Ndoye (champion of Africa of the long jump) received the Lion of gold which rewards the best Senegalese sportsman for the year.

  • Burundi: The World food program of the United Nations announced that it was going to nourish in the months to come more than 500.000 people living in the provinces from Kirundo and Muyinga in north of the country. 80% of the inhabitants of Kirundo and 50% of the inhabitants of Muyinga are threatened of famine, which already made a hundred deaths.

  • Uganda: 417 condemned to death disputed before the Constitutional court “the legality and the constitutionality” of the Capital punishment.

  • Rwanda: The president Paul Kagame, recalling that “the diseases, the war and poverty are the independent factors of the misery in which find the African populations”, invited the donor countries to support the action of the African countries in the sectors of health, of the maintenance of safety and the economy, in order to achieve the goals of the millenium for the development, laid down in 2000 by UNO.

  • Guinea: Shots were drawn in direction from the procession of the president Lansana Conté with Conakry. The authorities consider that it is about an coup attempt of State and assassination of the Guinean president who is unscathed.

  • Cameroun: A fire, probably of criminal origin, devastated a traditional site of the cheffery of founded Bandjoun at the XVIIIe century and composed of a royal palace, a museum, and various boxes with architecture typically Bamiléké E

January 20th

  • Benign: The police force challenged a trafficker with fifteen children victims with Lokossa, (105 km in the south-west of Cotonou) whereas they went to the Nigeria. According to UNICEF, 6000 children currently work with Nigeria, victim of this traffic of children, of which meadows of 2000 in the careers of Abeokuta, near the border of the Benign one.

  • Ethiopia: The team of the archeologist Sileshi Semaw announces in the review Nature to have discovered the bones of Hominidé S Ardipithecus ramidus, going back to approximately 4,5 million year on the site of excavation of Gona in the area of the Afar.

January 21st

  • Uganda: A fire was declared in the refugee camp of Agweng in the north of the country.

6 people died and ten thousands of others are disaster victims, private of shelter and food.

January 22nd

  • Central African Republic: The president Gabon board Omar Bongo Ondimba received on January 22nd for an attempt at mediation the Central African president François Bozize and 4 candidates readjusted for the presidential election of February 13rd, 2005. Seven candidates had been readjusted by the Constitutional court on December 30th 2004. The agreement signed Saturday evening authorizes six of the seven candidates readjusted to arise. Only the former president Angel-Felix Patassé, in exile with the Togo, was not authorized to present itself because it makes “ the object of legal proceedings in front of the Central African jurisdictions ”. The elections are deferred to the March 13rd 2005.

  • Rwanda: A projection of film “ sometimes in April ” (“ sometimes in april ”), a fiction on the Génocide in Rwanda in 1994 took place in a stage with Kigali. It is about the first projection of film of the realizer Raoul Peck.

January 23rd

  • Kenya: confrontations related to the control of water take place between the communities Kikuyu and Maasai in Naivasha (in the Vallée of the rift). Since January 22nd, they involved the 16 died and caused exile of hundreds of people.

  • Rwanda: the second public projection of film “sometimes in April” on the Génocide in Rwanda attracted 18.000 people with Kigali.

January 24th

  • South Africa: Opening of the lawsuit against Scott-Crossley Mark, a South-African white farmer and his marked accomplices to have to throw to the lions a black farm laborer. The 3 marked ones pled not-culprit.

  • Mali: Visit official until the January 26th of the president Mauritania N Maaouiya Ould Taya devoted mainly to the bilateral cooperation between the two countries on economic questions and commercial and of safety.

  • Ivory Coast: “The Association of the kings and traditional chiefs of Ivory Coast” met as a general meeting January 24th and 25th with Abidjan in order to create a Superior council of the kings and traditional chiefs of Ivory Coast which will gather the twelve kings of the country, the 11.800 chiefs of villages and the 145 chiefs of cantons and the tribes. The council, composed of 21 members is chaired by Nanan Agnini Bilé II, king of Djuablin, in the area of Agnibilékrou (200 km in the North-East of Abidjan). It must allow the administrative authorities and policies country to bring a moral support and financier with the traditional cheffery

January 25th

  • Madagascar: The president Marc Ravalomanana received in Paris the Prix Louise Michel “for his action in the defense and the promotion of the democracy, the human rights and peace”.

  • Burkina Faso : 2nd edition of the national forum on the assumption of responsibility of the people living with the VIH/AIDS with Ouagadougou on the topics of voluntary tracking and the vulnerable orphans and children in the context of the pandemia of VIH/sida.

January 27th

  • Somalia: Ghanim Alnajjar, envoy of UNO in charge of the human rights for Somalia, invited the international community to help Somalia to set up respectful institutions of the human rights.

  • Rwanda: the Rwandan Minister for the Foreign affairs, Charles Murigande with declared with Abuja where the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the African Union is held that its country is always threatened by the Rwandan rebels of the ex-FAR (soldiers of the Rwandan ex-army) and the Hutu militiamans interahamwe which perpetrated the genocide of 1994.

January 28th

  • Gabon: The government denounces the responsibility for the company of energy and water of Gabon (SEEG), privatized company held by 51% by the French group Veolia Water in the water shortage which the inhabitants of Libreville knew recently. “ the real causes of these dysfunctions are the fact of a lack of maintenance of the material inherited by the dealer since privatization the SEEG ”.

  • Niger: The French customs seized with the airport of Roissy 845 parts of African art of a “priceless value” coming from Niger and bound for the Belgium. According to Marie-Helene Moncel, enquiring with CNRS and expert in prehistory near the national Natural history museum of natural history of Paris, these parts cover “ almost all the history and the prehistory of Africa ”.

January 29th

January 31st

  • Algeria: 8th congress of the Face of national release (FLN) placed under the sign of “the unit, the reconciliation and continuity”, with Algiers in the presence of more than 2.000 deputy.

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