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Freedom of expression in Côte d'Ivoire: help three journalists writing the "New Mail" that have been improperly arrested by signing the petition to demand their release and urged it unconditionally!

• Facebook group for support for three journalists arrested in Côte d'Ivoire

Uganda Elections: "It is simply a joke, because who do you supervise? Who can supervise? Who has more experience than me?" Said Museveni. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called "a farce" the presence of any international observer missions for the 2011 elections in his country, in an interview published Monday by the independent Daily Monitor.

Uganda: Museveni condemns the 'farce' of election observers (lalibre.be)

Sahel Food Crisis

For several months, signs of a food crisis in the Sahel are increasing magnitude. Niger is the country most affected, and eastern Chad and northern Mali. The situation is also likely to worsen in northern Burkina Faso and Nigeria. If nothing is done, nearly ten million people in the region are threatened by serious food crisis in the coming months.

Press Conference Sahel food crisis Wednesday, April 7 Paris

Africa News - Uganda: Ugandan journalist, Angeli Izama, was arrested and charged Wednesday for defamation. Political columnist for the independent Daily Monitor newspaper, he likened the regime of President Yoweri Museveni dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in an article published December 20, 2009.

Explanations of Ugandan journalist

"It was a commentary, an analysis was hypothetical," said the lawyer, Anne Abeja-Muhwezi. The arrest "due to the preparation of presidential and parliamentary elections" of 2011. "The government wants to silence critical journalists," she also said, reports Le Monde.

• Uganda - Journalism: Journalist arrested and charged with defamation (.afrik.com)

Africa News - Togo: The decision of the Constitutional Court to invalidate Togo Tuesday the nomination of Kofi Yamgnane the presidential election of 28 February did not surprise many people in Togo. A rejection based on "confusion about the identity of the person", as the President of the Constitutional Court, Aboudou Assouma.

• Togo: Kofi Yamgnane departed from the presidential (afrik.com)

Africa News - APA-Bordeaux (France) A final will be honored Friday at the Moroccan Mohamed Mechti veteran of World War II, died of an illness Sunday at 92 years at the Hopital Saint-André de Bordeaux in the South - West of France, told APA.

Ceremony celebrated in Bordeaux in France

A ceremony will include organized in his memory to the Friendly Dupaty Bordeaux lay by the association "The Forgotten of the Republic" and the Region Aquitaine, all engaged in a battle for recognition and revaluation of human soldiers who fought sides of France during the Great War.

• Morocco-France: a tribute to the veteran Moroccan Mohamed Mechti died in Bordeaux (afriqueavenir.org)

Africa News - The Cameroon-independence Africa: Anticipating contingencies insurgency as he knew so well how, after having vainly repressed violence in a singular all thought of emancipation of its colonies, making victims by hundreds of thousands, General de Gaulle, which you claim, yields to the lure of independence, but not without having conceived and initiated this sinister system that persists and who will now pair with the Fifth Republic.

• Fiftieth anniversary of independence, Cameroon wrote to Nicolas Sarkozy (lemessager.net)

Africa News - APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) The African Union (AU) allows Eritrea to open''as soon as possible''a diplomatic mission to the AU Commission, to enable the authorities of that country to participate meetings of the Pan-African organization, APA learned on Tuesday a source close to the Union.

• Eritrea allowed to open a diplomatic mission to the AU in Addis Ababa (afriqueavenir.org)