BBC World Service - Special Reports - Africa news timeline March 10

March 30th
- Rwanda's Justice Minister
  
  Rwanda's Minister of Justice answers criticisms of his country's human rights record.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:08
- Calls to delay Sudan's election
  
  Concern over the printing of ballot papers fuels demands for elections to be delayed.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:02
- Election date doubts
  
  Sudan's president says elections must take place on time or the referendum date for the south will shift.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:31
March 29th
- Lord's Resistance Army killings
  
  Ugandan rebels, the LRA are accused of new massacres in the DR Congo
- Niger arrests
  
  The military junta gives details of the 12 high profile arrests made this morning.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:24
- Niger arrests
  
  Several members of Niger's former government have been arrested by the military regime.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:58
- Somalis march against al-Shabab
  
  Hundreds of Somalis march through Mogadishu, protesting against al-Shabab militants.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:39
March 26th
- Niger update
  
  Five weeks on from the coup that toppled President Tandja, we have an update from Niger.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:15
- The church in Africa
  
  Reaction to the scandal in the Catholic church from a top member of Africa's clergy.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:55
- Nigeria's Delta amnesty
  
  Nigeria's Acting President tries to get the shaky peace process in the Niger Delta back on its feet.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:37
- Mob justice
  
  Mob Justice in Burundi: are the authorities complicit in the killings of suspected criminals?
  
  ListenDuration: 02:42
March 25th
- Demolitions
  
  Police in Somalia demolish hundreds of houses near Mogadishu airport.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:56
- Zuma in Uganda
  
  Jacob Zuma addresses Ugandan parliament and talks business.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:52
- State visit
  
  President Zuma of South Africa is on a two day state visit to Uganda.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:24
- Sierra Leone health workers' strike
  
  Sierra Leone's health workers' strike enters its second week.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:51
March 24th
- Nigeria cabinet nominations
  
  After last week's dismissals Nigeria's acting president submits his list of cabinet nominees to the senate.
  
  ListenDuration: 05:28
- Political freedom in Ethiopia
  
  Is Ethiopia's government becoming increasingly repressive?
  
  ListenDuration: 03:53
- Victoire Ingabire questioned by police
  
  One of Rwanda's main opposition leaders is prevented from leaving the country.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:55
- Red card campaign
  
  Zambian police block plans to kick off a 'red card' campaign against President Banda's rule.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:19
March 23rd
- Two decades of Ecomog
  
  The West African peacekeeping force, Ecomog evaluates its first twenty years.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:43
- Nigeria's police spokesperson
  
  Nigerian police charge dozens of people after the brutal killings in Plateau State.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:47
- South Sudan
  
  No election postponement in South Sudan says a government minister.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:44
- Kenya police embarrassment
  
  Kenya's police embarrassed by the release of a terror suspect from their custody.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:15
March 22nd
- World water day
  
  Joaquim Chissano on how better to protect Africa's future water supply.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:32
- Chairman of Kenya's IEC
  
  Kenya launches the process of drawing up a new national voter registration list.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:35
- Ivory sales ban
  
  Tanzania's hopes of selling stockpiles of ivory have received a blow in Doha.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:59
- Kenya voter registration
  
  Kenya launches a new voters registration process today.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:26
March 19th
- Ethiopia
  
  Ethiopia's PM responds to allegations he diverted food aid money to purchase weapons.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:49
- Nigeria
  
  How will Libya respond to Nigerian anger at brother Gadaffi's diplomatic faux pas?
  
  ListenDuration: 04:25
March 18th
- Coup plotters charged
  
  At least ten senior Gambian officials are charged with plotting to overthrow President Jammeh
  
  ListenDuration: 01:24
- Malawi
  
  Malawi Council of Churches meeting discusses homosexuality.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:22
- Nigeria
  
  Nigeria's acting president takes decisive action by dissolving the cabinet.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:42
- Wole Soyinka backs Goodluck Jonathan
  
  Nigeria's Nobel Prize winning writer gives his support to the country's acting President for dissolving the cabinet
  
  ListenDuration: 05:43
March 17th
- Sudan
  
  Campaigners flag up discrepancies in oil pumped out of South Sudan.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:32
- Uganda Kasubi fire
  
  Fire destroys world heritage site in Uganda for ancient kings of the Buganda kingdom.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:03
March 16th
- Zuma in Zimbabwe
  
  Can South Africa's President Zuma assuage tensions in Zimbabwe's delicate coalition government?
  
  ListenDuration: 03:01
- Security summit
  
  Algeria hosts a regional security summit in the face of threats from al-Qaeda of the Maghreb.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:11
- Gadaffi suggests Nigeria split
  
  Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi suggests Nigeria be divided along religious lines into two states.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:34
- Zuma to insist on World Cup calm
  
  What are President Zuma's expectations of his trip to neighbouring Zimbabwe?
  
  ListenDuration: 01:59
March 15th
- The threat posed by water shortages
  
  Experts meet in Uganda to look at how climate change will effect water supplies.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:53
- Amnesty talks explosion
  
  Nigerian militants detonate explosions outside a government building in Warri, Delta State.
  
  ListenDuration: 05:25
March 12th
- Fighting in Somalia
  
  Residents in Mogadishu wake up to the sound of mortar fire as fighting continues in Somalia.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:48
March 11th
- Somalia food aid
  
  Why half the food aid sent to Somalia may not reach those in need.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:44
- Jos violence
  
  Grief consumes villages in Nigeria's Plateau state after the weekend's massacres.
  
  ListenDuration: 06:06
March 10th
- Egypt's top Muslim cleric dies
  
  Egypt's top Muslim cleric Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi has died.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:38
- Jos violence
  
  Plateau state announce the arrest of up to 100 suspects in connection with Sunday's devastating attacks.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:00
- Anger in Nigeria
  
  A protest march in Nigeria to demand an end to President Yar'Adua's rule.
  
  ListenDuration: 07:00
March 9th
- Jos violence
  
  Just who is to blame for the latest killings in Nigeria which have left hundreds dead in the environs of Jos?
  
  ListenDuration: 06:14
- Togo elections
  
  Togo's opposition banned from holding a demonstration.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:57
March 8th
- Hundreds killed in Jos
  
  Over 500 feared dead following horrific attacks near Jos in central Nigeria.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:32
- Uganda womens demo
  
  Women from Uganda's opposition protest on the streets against bad governance.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:00
- Jos violence
  
  Tension remains in Nigeria's Plateau State as the authorities there refuse to accept blame for the 500 killed in Jos violence.
  
  ListenDuration: 08:54
March 7th
- Social networking in Nigeria
  
  Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar looks at how Nigerians use the internet.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:45
- Social networking in Nigeria
  
  As the World Service SuperPower season begins we ask- how has the internet changed your life?
  
  ListenDuration: 01:45
March 5th
- Kigai grenade attack
  
  16 people injured in two grenade attacks in Rwanda's capital.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:15
- Uganda landslides
  
  The latest on recovery efforts in Eastern Uganda following this week's deadly landslides.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:00
- Togo
  
  Counting begins after the Presidential poll in Togo.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:43
March 4th
- President Zuma UK state visit
  
  Prime Minister Brown rejects South African President Jacob Zuma's call to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe.
  
  ListenDuration: 06:09
- DR Congo
  
  The UN begins discussion of a gradual withdrawal of its peace keeping mission from DR Congo.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:54
- Togo elections
  
  Polling stations open in Togo for the election of a new president.
  
  ListenDuration: 03:13
- Togo elections
  
  Voting in Togo's presidential election begins.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:59
March 3rd
- Uganda landslide
  
  More than 300 feared dead after a series of landslides in eastern Uganda.
  
  ListenDuration: 04:03
- Famine aid for weapons
  
  BBC investigation reveals that some aid money for Ethiopia's famine was used to buy weapons.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:53
March 2nd
- Uganda landslide
  
  Over 100 people have been killed in a landslide in the eastern region of Bududa in Uganda.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:16
- Habyarimana widow arrested in France
  
  The widow of former Rwandan president Habyarimana arrested in France on genocide charges.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:30
- Chad
  
  UN peacekeepers in Chad have their mandate extended until May.
  
  ListenDuration: 01:25
- South Africa 2010
  
  With just one hundred days to World Cup 2010, how prepared is South Africa to host the beautiful game?
  
  ListenDuration: 05:41
March 1st
- Petition against Uganda's anti-gay bill
  
  An Anglican cleric leads a campaign to protest against Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill
  
  ListenDuration: 03:31
- President el-Bashir heads south
  
  Sudan's President el-Bashir kick-starts the southern leg of his presidential campaign in Juba
  
  ListenDuration: 02:51
- Niger
  
  The head of Niger's military junta finally addresses the nation.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:44
- Sudan
  
  Sudan's President Bashir to launch his re-election bid in South Sudan.
  
  ListenDuration: 02:24

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