Djibouti (HAN) July 20th, 2010::  TheSpain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, centre and various African leaders pose during a group photo before a lunch at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Monday ,July 19, 2010. The African leaders are in Madrid to attend the African progress conference. Left to right, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, the President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the President of Tazania, Jakaya Kikwete and the former President of Liberia Amos Sawyer.

Djibouti (HAN) July 16th, 2010:  A leading member of the Darfur-based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) says his rebel group will soon send a powerful delegation to hold consultations with south Sudan’s President Salva Kiir.  Salva Kiir, who doubles as Sudan’s first Vice President, decided to take a personal role in resolving the ongoing Darfur conflict after Djibril Bassole, the joint U.N./African Union mediator asked him to help resolve the crisis.....<Listen Listen: Ahmed Aden, Spokesman for Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) spoke with Clottey>....

Djibouti (HAN)July 15th, 2010::  U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, center, speaks as Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, right, and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway listen at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, July 13, 2010..<Listen>....

Djibouti (HAN) July 15th, 2010:: Islamist Somalia-based group Al-Shebab has taken responsibility for a double bomb attack at a sport's bar and an Ethiopian restaurant in the Ugandan capital Kampala that killed 74 people. Analyst Afyare Abdi Elmi tells RFI it is likely the bombs will trigger an interventionist international response, but that foreign governments should keep other African countries out of Somalia.... (photo) Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, prime minister of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, right, and Sheikh Mahmud Sheikh Hassan, spiritual leader of Ahlu Sunna Waljama (ASWJ), shake hands following the signing of an agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....<Listen>....

Djibouti (HAN) July 12th, 2010::  Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir gestures prior to being sworn in, at the parliament in Khartoum, Sudan. On Monday, July, 12, 2010, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide in Darfur, a move that will pile further diplomatic pressure on his isolated regime. The decision marked the first time the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal has issued genocide charges  .Listen: Rabie Abdulatti Obeid, a leading member of Sudan's Ruling Party....<Listen>....  Listen: David Crane professor of law at Syracuse University and former chief prosecutor for the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for Sierra Leone spoke with Clottey <Listen>...

Djibouti (HAN) July 12th, 2010:  Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo, chairman of the KULMIYE Party, waves to his supporters at a polling station where he arrived to cast his vote in Hargeisa, in the self-declared republic of Somaliland. Silanyo has said he hopes the presidential election will help win Somaliland international recognition.n....<Listen>....

Djibouti (HAN) July 12th, 2010: The leaders of the IGAD member states in East Africa have for the first time approved a political plan put forwarded by the Ethiopian and Djiboutian government aimed to undermine the legacy of Somaliland, a republic now seeking for international recognition. The latest summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the IGAD leaders agreed on several key principles in favor of the regional security protection. ...<Listen>....