Portal:Africa/In the news
July 12: Two British girls are arrested at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana for attempting to smuggle 6.5 kg of cocaine worth £300,000 to the UK.(BBC) (Ghana Home Page)
July 4: The 9th summit of the Assembly of the African Union which lasted for 3 days ends in Accra, Ghana. (BBC) (Ghana Home Page)
July 3: A new currency was introduced in Ghana. The Ghanaian cedi will be used alongside the old until December 2007, when the old ceases to be legal tender. One GH¢ is 10,000 old cedis.(Ghana Home Page) (MyJoyOnline.com)
May 31: The National Assembly of Niger passes a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Hama Amadou, who promptly resigns. (BBC APA)
May 5: Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes shortly after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, killing 114 on board. (CNN BBC)
May 4: The opposition Front for Democracy and the Republic of Mali requests that the Constitutional Court annul the presidential election of April 29. (BBC)
May 2: The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs Minister and Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb for war crimes committed during the Darfur conflict. (BBC)
April 30: According to a Reuters count, political violence in Algeria has claimed 165 lives in the first four months of 2007. (Reuters)
April 24: Fighters of the Ogaden National Liberation Front attack an oil field in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, killing 74 and taking captive seven Chinese workers. (BBC)
April 22: Eritrea withdraws from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development following a dispute with Ethiopia over Somalia. (Al Jazeera)
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April 10: A Somali committee reports that 1,086 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Mogadishu from March 29 to April 31 in battles pitting Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government forces against fighters of the Popular Resistance Movement and Hawiye clan militamen. (Reuters AlertNet)
April 5: Guillaume Soro, former leader of the rebel New Forces (FN), replaces Charles Konan Banny as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire. (BBC)
