April 2007 in Africa

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This page deals with events in or related to the continent of Africa in April 2007.

Deaths
22: Sir Raymond Hoffenberg 21: James Hamupanda Kauluma 2: Tadjou Salou 1: Driss Chraibi

April 4, 2007 (Wednesday) Four hostages held in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria are freed. (BBC) Former rebel leader Guillaume Soro takes office as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire. (BBC) April 8, 2007 (Sunday) Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic bishops call on the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe to stand down or face "open revolt" in a message posted on church bulletin boards across the country. (AP via CNN) April 10, 2007 (Tuesday) A Somali committee estimates the death toll of recent fighting between Ethiopian and Somali Government forces and insurgents in Mogadishu at more than 1,000. (Reuters Alertnet) Sudan claims that an attack from Chad on its territory led to the loss of 17 Sudanese soldiers. Chad denies the allegations but claims that it repulsed an attack from Sudan. (Reuters Alertnet) Ethiopia acknowledges that it has detained 41 suspected international terrorists from 17 countries and claims that foreign investigators were given permission to interrogate them. (AP via International Herald Tribune) April 14, 2007 (Saturday) Nigerian general election: Nigerian voters go to the polls for state governor and legislative elections. Security is tight in the northern city of Kano following the murder of militant Islamic cleric Ustaz Ja'afar Adam. (BBC) April 17, 2007 (Tuesday) Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament suspends a former Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden and 29 other Members of Parliament for failing to attend sessions in recent months. (AP via Washington Post) April 21, 2007 (Saturday) Nigerian militants attack government buildings in the oil region hours before voters go to the polls in the general election. (Reuters via ABC News Australia) April 22, 2007 (Sunday) More than 60 people are killed in the fourth day of heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist militia in Mogadishu. (BBC) Eritrea pulls out of the east African Inter-Governmental Authority on Development after a disagreement with Ethiopia over Somalia. (Aljazeera) In Zimbabwe investigating officer Wellington Ngena accuses the Government of South Africa's Scorpions intelligence department of training members of the Movement for Democratic Change in combat to overthrow the Government of Zimbabwe. (allAfrica) April 24, 2007 (Tuesday) Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front raid a Chinese-run oil field in near the country's border with Somalia, killing 74. (BBC) (Houston Chronicle)

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News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.
• allAfrica.com
• newshandle.com
• Reuters, Africa
• ReliefWeb
• UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
• UN News Centre