African news timeline January 10
Last updated: 30 march, 2010 - 12:04 GMT
News Stories
January 27th
COCAN's executive director Antonio Mangueira says it would be sad if the Togo incident was to overshadow the whole tournament.
ListenDuration: 01:15
The deadline approaches for Kenyan MP's to agree on a new constitution.
ListenDuration: 02:17
Calls for Libya's Colonel Gaddafi to retain chairmanship of the African Union.
ListenDuration: 02:22
The last day of nominations ahead of Sudan's historic polls.
ListenDuration: 01:47
Hillary Clinton warns that corruption is breeding extremism in Nigeria.
ListenDuration: 04:29
January 26th
Severed heads of executed rivals displayed on a bridge by Somalia's al-Shabab fighters.
ListenDuration: 01:19
Chinese company criticised for its treatment of Congolese workers
ListenDuration: 02:09
Searching for answers following the crash of the Ethiopian Airlines plane.
ListenDuration: 04:16
Liberia's president does U-turn on campaign pledge not to run for a second term.
ListenDuration: 04:50
January 25th
Spokesperson, Sarah Yusuf tells Paul Bakibinga what the government is doing to help.
ListenDuration: 02:28
Jaafaru Usman has been volunteering at a temporary refugee camp set up during the violence
ListenDuration: 02:43
An Ethiopian Airlines plane has crashed into the sea with 89 people on board.
Paul Khalifeh is the editor of L'Hebdo magazine in Beirut.
ListenDuration: 02:07
Chief executive officer of Ethiopian Airlines, Girma Wake
ListenDuration: 00:22
January 22nd
Angola's opposition defiant over new constitution abolishing direct presidential elections.
ListenDuration: 03:52
Nigeria's vice president orders the army to take over the city of Jos.
ListenDuration: 02:22
Political parties in Kenya strike a deal on a new constitution.
ListenDuration: 02:46
Nigeria's High Court give the government 14 days to decide whether the president is fit to rule.
ListenDuration: 02:56
January 20th
The slow journey back to democracy as Guinea's junta settles on a new prime minister.
ListenDuration: 01:59
The Nigerian army says calm has been restored in the city of Jos.
ListenDuration: 06:16
Communal violence in Jos spreads- why have the Nigerian government been unable to deal with the problem?
ListenDuration: 06:28
Kenyan environmentalists say an Ethiopian dam threatens Lake Turkana.
ListenDuration: 02:53
January 19th
Guinean opposition split over who should become the transition prime minister.
ListenDuration: 04:08
Celebrations today mark the 5th anniversary of Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
ListenDuration: 05:16
Religious violence erupts again in Nigerian city of Jos leaving residents tense.
ListenDuration: 02:47
President Bashir: If South Sudan votes for independence, I'll respect that decision.
ListenDuration: 03:29
January 18th
Guinea's junta leader backs plans to appoint a transitional government without him
ListenDuration: 02:49
Arrests in Angola as two more rights activists are picked up in Cabinda
ListenDuration: 03:43
Kenyan police arrest over 300 people including a number of Somali MP's.
ListenDuration: 02:32
Panic sweeps across Ghana after rumours that an earthquake was about to strike were spread by text.
ListenDuration: 02:44
January 15th
Was Guinea's junta leader tricked into flying to Burkina Faso?
ListenDuration: 03:02
The SPLM choose Yassir Arman to challenge President al-Bashir in Sudan's April elections.
ListenDuration: 02:37
Sudan's southern-based SPLM choose their national presidential candidate.
ListenDuration: 02:16
Kenyan police put down a huge protest calling for the release of a controversial Jamaican cleric.
ListenDuration: 02:29
January 13th
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara is flown to Burkina Faso- could this scupper Guinea's transition talks?
ListenDuration: 03:00
Uganda's president wants more discussion on the country's controversial anti-gay bill.
ListenDuration: 01:39
The BBC's Louise Redvers looks at Flec's motives to Paul Bakibinga.
ListenDuration: 02:17
Why is television being banned from government offices in Ghana?
ListenDuration: 03:11
Angola's parliament to adopt a new constitution- opposition campaigners are outraged.
ListenDuration: 02:45
January 12th
Angolan separatist group Flec say the Africa Cup of Nations is not a target.
ListenDuration: 01:56
The Nigerian president speaks out for the first time from his hospital bed in Saudi Arabia.
ListenDuration: 03:19
Thousands protest President Yar'Adua's long absence in Abuja.
ListenDuration: 03:48
January 11th
Anger in Togo as the country's soccer team arrives following a deadly ambush in Angola.
ListenDuration: 02:39
Olusegun Obasanjo speaks out on Nigeria's inclusion on the US terror watch list.
ListenDuration: 03:29
Two people have been arrested following the attack on the Togolese football team in Angola.
ListenDuration: 02:50
'There has been a total disregard to our concern.....we did not even have a single call from the African Football Confederation to express sympathy'
ListenDuration: 04:00
January 6th
Pressure grows for the Nigerian government to name an acting head of state while the President receives medical treatment abroad.
ListenDuration: 14:48
Mauritius encourages ships operating within its waters to carry armed security guards.
ListenDuration: 02:36
January 5th
President Yar'adua's continuing absence leads to growing uncertainty in Nigeria.
ListenDuration: 02:32
Day two of Nairobi's minibus taxi strike - how are commuters coping?
ListenDuration: 02:47
The UN halts food aid to southern Somalia after attacks from Islamist insurgents.
ListenDuration: 03:15
Liberian Audit Commission accuses a former information minister of misappropriating more than US$200,000.
ListenDuration: 02:19
January 4th
South Africa's Jacob Zuma to marry third wife
ListenDuration: 01:47
Gabon rolls out new official office hours
ListenDuration: 02:50
The US call for tougher airport security in five African countries.
ListenDuration: 01:54
Nigeria protest new US airline security measures as Ghana says the alleged bomber spent 2 weeks in the country.
ListenDuration: 04:38
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma takes another wife.
ListenDuration: 01:58
Features
Zimbabwe promotes male circumcision in fight against Aids
ListenDuration: 03:59
Elizabeth Ohene has had her eye on the devastation in Haiti.
ListenDuration: 03:04
Farai Sevenzo casts his eye over an eventful January.
ListenDuration: 04:33
BBC's Martin Vogl looks back over the three day of the Festival of the Desert.
ListenDuration: 03:12
Sola Odunfa hopes football will unite Nigerians.
ListenDuration: 04:24
'All you need is a few men with guns to cause a bloody mess'
ListenDuration: 04:07
BBC's Martin Vogl gets into the heart of Mali's Festival of the Desert.
ListenDuration: 01:46
Elizabeth Ohene shares her vision for 2010.
ListenDuration: 01:48
Skateboarding finally takes off in East Africa
Dobet Gnahoré receives a Grammy nomination.
ListenDuration: 06:33
