Sunday the 1st er May

Monday May 2nd

  • Abdoulaye Wade, president of the Senegal and Thabo Mbeki, president of the South Africa, received African gender awar , reward decreed by association “Women Africa solidarity” for the promotion of the parity man/woman.

  • Togo: Harry Olympio, candidate of the Gathering for the support of the democracy and development (RSDD) for the presidential election of April 24th arrived in third position with 0,5% of the voices, calls with the constitution of a “ national reconciliation government under the control of the international community ”.

Tuesday May 3rd

  • Senegal: Celebration of the world day of freedom of the press.

  • Togo:

    • It course constitutional confirmed the election of Faure Gnassingbé Eyadema like chair Republic at the time of the election of April 24th. The candidate of the Gathering of the Togolese people (RPT) obtained 60,15% compared with 38,25% for Emmanuel Bob Akitani. These results are disputed by the opposition which disallows the proposal to take part in a government of national union. The Union of the forces of change (UFC), invited with “ to resist with the arsenal of the means which the Constitution places at our disposal ”.
    • According to Office of the High Commission with the refugees of UNO (HCR), 10.000 fled with the Bénin and approximately 8.500 with the Ghana.

Wednesday May 4th

  • Cameroun: The strike of the students on the initiative of Association for the defense of the rights of the students (ADDEC) which began on April 20th at the University from Yaounde I and which was propagated in the 6 other universities of the country. The students claim in particular the abrogation of the university rights which rise with 50.000 francs CFA. During demonstrations, two students were killed by police officers with Buea, (south-west). Several persons in charge of the student's movement were stopped, of which Mouafo Djontu, president of the ADDEC.

  • Ethiopia: Whereas the humanitarian agencies, ONG and the government which 3,8 million people has need for a humanitarian aid, UNICEF declares in an official statement that “ Without treatment, 80.000 to 170.000 children severely malnourris are likely to die in 2005 ”.

  • Togo:
    • Faure Gnassingbé Eyadema lent oath “ in front of God and the Togolese people, only holder of popular sovereignty ” like new elected president of Togo.
    • the Economic community of the States of West Africa recognized, by the voice of Aïchatou Mindaoudou, Foreign Minister of the Niger, country which takes the presidency of it, Faure Gnasssingbé Eyadema like new president of Togo.

Thursday, May 5

  • Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister showed the opposition to promote ethnic hatred, it comparing with the Interahamwe, militia Hutu Rwandan responsible for the Génocide in Rwanda in 1994.

  • Togo: Jacques Chirac, French president, congratulated Faure Gnassingbé Eyadema: “ the shortly after your election to the presidency of the Republic of Togo, allow me to address to you my congratulations and my wishes of every success in the achievement of the high positions which await you ”

  • Japan/Africa: In visit official with the Mozambique, Keishiro Fukushima, secretary with the parliamentary Affairs of the Japanese ministry of the Foreign affairs announced that Japan intended to double the development assistance of Japan in Mozambique and the whole of the African continent.

Friday May 6th

  • Ethiopia: In a televised intervention, Ledtu Ayalew, spokesperson of the Coalition for the unit and the democracy (CUD, opposition) showed the party in power, the revolutionary democratic Face of the Ethiopian people (EPRDF) to stop illegally and to kill “ people that it suspect to support the opposition ”.

  • Togo: Radio France international (RFI) announced that a confidential relationship of a diplomat of the European Union gave a report on massive frauds at the time of the presidential election of April 24th, with hundreds of thousands of fictitious voters in the area favorable to the capacity, the not-distribution of voter registration cards in the areas favorable to the opposition, the disappearance of ballot box during the examination.

Saturday May 7th

  • African Union: To resulting from a conference on the African debt, the poverty and the financing of the African Union, the African Ministers for L `Economy and Finances in a declaration launched “ a call for L `cancellation of the African debt (so) to allow a better financing of our economies to achieve the Goals of the millenium for development (OMD) ”. They also denounced “ the rich countries (which), while preaching the virtues of L `market economy, continue to subsidize their agriculture, to pour on the African markets of the subsidized products whose local substitutes exist, which carries damage to the national production and confines the African peasants in poverty and misery ”.

  • Ivory Coast: The negotiations between the army (Armed forces of Ivory Coast, FANCI) and the rebel movement of the new Forces on disarmament were suspended without an agreement on the calendar of disarmament being concluded.

Sunday May 8th

  • Algeria: commemoration of the 60e birthday of the bloody repression of the demonstrations for independence by the French Army in the area of Sétif on May 8th 1945. (See Massacre of Sétif)

  • Cameroun: Association for the defense of the rights of the students of Cameroun (Addec) decided to suspend the strike movement in the universities begun on April 20th.

Tuesday, May 10

  • the Sahel: the United Nations for the food and agriculture (FAO) declared in an official statement that “ the damage caused by the dryness and the infestations acridiennes into 2004 worsened the situation of the food availabilities in certain parts of Burkina Faso, of Chad, of Mali, of Mauritania, of Niger and the north of Senegal ” Thus, in the area of Kidal, with the Mali, a third of the children of less than three years suffer from acute malnutrition. “ UNICEF launched a call for capital in favor of some 750.000 children in Niger, from which 150.000 show serious signs of malnutrition ”.

  • Rwanda: The Club of Paris, which gathers the principal creditor industrialized countries, decided to cancel the debt of Rwanda which rises to 100,4 million dollars.

Wednesday May 11th

  • Forced labor: A report/ratio of the International office of work (the ILO) published on May 11th, 2005 entitled “a world alliance against the forced labor” precise that 660.000 African is victims of the forced labor in sub-Saharan Africa, whose “ 80% of the forced labor is imposed by agents deprived at ends of economic exploitation. The forced labor imposed by the State accounts for 11% of the total, and the sexual exploitation with business ends 8% ”. The children are among the first victims, as in Ivory Coast where “ between 10.000 and 15.000 children of the Mali work in plantations. Similar practices were announced for the Bénin and the Togo ”.

  • Mali: Eleven integrist Moslem monks were condemned to Yorosso with sorrows some 6 months to three years of prison firm to have refused to make vaccinate their children against the Poliomyélite.

Thursday May 12th

  • Human rights: The African Commission of the human rights joined together for its 37e session to Banjul (Gambia) was declared worried by the situation with the Togo and the Darfur, and asks for the creation of a African Court of the human rights.

  • Benign, Togo: Rogatien Biaou, Minister Beninese for the Foreign affairs and African integration, launched a call to the international community so that it helps the government of Benign to accommodate the refugees who have flees Togo after the presidential election of April 24th and violences which followed it. The number of refugees would amount to 20.000 of which the half are children.

Friday May 13rd

  • Democratic republic of Congo: The National Assembly adopted (348 for, 5 against and 8 abstention) the project of the new constitution. This project, already adopted in first reading by the Senate on March 17th must now be ratified by referendum.

  • Sudan: Russo Roberta, spokesperson of the Office of the High Commission of the United Nations for the refugees (HCR) specified with the Agence France-Press (AFP) that at least 5000 people left the south of Sudan to take refuge in Uganda, following attacks conducted by Army of resistance of Lord (LRA) but also the food shortages in the refugee camps of the Southern Sudan.

  • Togo: the the European Parliament refuses to recognize the victory of Faure Gnassingbé Eyadema considering that “ the conditions under which the election of April 24th proceeded do not respect the principles of transparency, pluralism and free determination of the people ”. In their resolution, the European members of Parliament ask for the Togolese “ to consider new elections presidential and legislative authorities worthy of this name ”.

Saturday May 14th

  • Somalia: During a ceremony in the presence of Mohamoud Abdullahi Jama, Deputy Prime Minister, the war leaders controlling Mogadiscio one started to deposit the weapons

  • Ivory Coast: An agreement of disarmament at signed summer with Yamoussoukro by colonel-major Philippe Mango, chief of staff of the national Armed forces of Ivory Coast (FANCI), colonel Soumaïla Bakayoko, chief of staff of the New Forces (FN, rebellion) and Alain Donwahi chair National Commission of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (CNDDR). This agreement envisages the demobilization between on June 27th and on August 10th of 42.500 combatants of the new forces and 5.500 soldiers of the FANCI.

Sunday, May 15

  • Burundi: The National liberation armies of Burundi (FLN), last rebellious group in activity, signed an agreement with the government to put an end to the civil war.

Monday May 16th

  • South Africa: A conference on the African cities, organized by the South-African government with the organization of the “plain African cities” and the Community of the States of the Southern Africa takes place from May 16th to 18th.

  • Benign: Philippe Duhamel, representative of the Funds of the United Nations for childhood (UNICEF) announced the installation of “ a system of schooling for the Togolese refugees with Benign the ”. Approximately 110 children are concerned.

  • Mali: At the time of the ceremony for the 28e birthday of died of Modibo Keïta, Tinder Toumani Touré, president of the Republic deposited a sheaf on the tomb of the “ builder of the nation ”. Dr. Alou Badra Macalou, general secretary of the Union African democratic Sudanese woman-Gathering (US/RDA, party of the former Head of State), wished the organization of official funeral and main roads in order to continue the rehabilitation of Modibo Keïta, first president Malian, relieved by the coup d'etat of Moussa Traoré in 1968 and died in detention the May 16th 1977.

  • Togo: A report published by the social services gives a report on 82 children recovered near the traffickers of children for year 2004 and 43 since the beginning of the year in the prefecture theMono one. Joined together between the 10 and on May 15th, the actors of the fight against the “draft of the children” decided to intensify the means of fighting against the traffickers.

Tuesday, May 17

  • Ivory Coast: meeting of opening to Large-Bassam of the conference on the fight against the proliferation and the illicit circulation of the light weapons in Ivory Coast, chaired by Seydou Diarra, Prime Minister.

Wednesday, May 18

  • Mali: Jacques Diouf, managing director of the United Nations for the food and agriculture (FAO), chaired with Amadou Toumani Touré, president of the Republic the ceremony of launching of the national plan of the Food safety over the 5 next years. Announcing the mobilization by its organization of 114 frank billion CFA, he declared that it “ is a question of doing everything so that agriculture develops. It is practiced by 70 percent of our populations. It constitutes an basic element of the gross domestic product, trade balance, balance of payments, currency. It is also determining in the fight against poverty (…) It is an basic element of food safety, a flourishing tradition of Mali, a splendor of old times of Mali ”.

Thursday May 19th

  • Niger: demonstration organized by trade unions, of ONG and associations to claim the release of Ilguilas Weila and Allassane Biga, members of the ONG Timidria which fights against the Esclavage in Niger, recently accused and écroués for “attempt of swindle”. The government native of Niger shows this ONG to harm the image of the country by organizing ceremonies of releases of slaves. According to several organizations, slavery would continue to exist in the north of Niger, at the populations Touaregs and nomads. Between 40.000 and 200.000 people would be victims.

Friday May 20th

Togo: Emmanuel Bob Akitani, candidate of the opposition to the presidential election of April 24th, was hospitalized in France, with the Military hospital of Neuilly, for neurological problems.

Monday May 23rd

  • Uganda: In a report/ratio, UNICEF estimates that 40.000 children are constrained to leave each night their village to go to sleep in the streets of the cities of the north of Uganda, because of the threats of violences and removals on behalf of the rebel movement Armée with resistance with the Lord (LRA), person in charge of the removal of approximately 20.000 constrained children to become children soldiers, carriers or reduced to sexual slavery.

Tuesday May 24th

  • Mali: the government Malian with various social organizations in Mali signed a “ call to the action ” in the objective is “ to put an end to the Travail children in the mines, sites of gold washing and careers from here to 2015 ”.

  • Central African Republic: The electoral commission announced that François Bozize had gained the second turn of the presidential election on May 8th, 2005 with nearly 64,6% of the voices compared with 35,4% for Martin Ziguélé, former Prime Minister. the presidential coalition “convergence national” obtains the relative majority to the National Assembly with 42 of the 105 seats to be provided.

Wednesday May 25th

  • Right of the child: A regional consultation on violence against the children in Center and West Africa, organized by UNICEF and the government Malian joined together with Bamako (Mali) May 24th and 25th 2005 of delegated of 24 countries representatives the governments and ONG. They drew up a list of recommendation aiming protecting the children from any form of violence and at increasing their participation. See: 2005 in Africa: Rights of the child

  • Guinea-Bissau: a group of soldier having per hour head the former president Kumba Yala occupied during a few hours the presidential palace with Bissau. This occupation, whose former president denies any implication, at summer condemned the following day by the African Union which qualifies it “ coup attempt of State. ”

Thursday May 26th

  • Nigeria: Olusegun Obasanjo, president of the Republic, in visit official in France since on Tuesday, May 24, was received by Jacques Chirac. He asked a lightening of the debt of his country, evaluated 34 billion dollars.

Friday May 27th

  • Togo: Saïd Djinnit, police chief of the African Union in charge with peace and safety, announced that the sanctions against Togo, catch on February 5th after the death of Gnassingbé Eyadema and the nomination of his/her son to the presidency, was raised.

Saturday May 28th

Monday May 30th

  • Ethiopia: The preliminary results grant the victory to the Ethiopian revolutionary democratic Popular front (FDRPE), party in power which gains the majority of the 547 seats of the Room of the representatives of the people at the time of the elections of May 15th, 2005.

Tuesday May 31st

  • Senegal: Abdourahim Agne, chief of the Parti the reform (PR, opposition) was accused of “attack to safety of the State” and was imprisoned in a hospital of Dakar because of “its health condition” after having invited the Senegaleses “to take example on the Ukraine and to go down per million in the streets to require the departure of the president of the Republic Abdoulaye Wade”.

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