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1.	Democratic Republic of Congo: No end in sight to post-election crisis
	Author: AETA	Date Written: 26 January 2012
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Action for Transparent and Peaceful Elections (AETA)
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.osisa.org
	Key Words: DR Congo, elections, INEC, Kabila, Tchisekedi, UPDS
	Summary & Comment: Is the D.R Congo gradually slipping into another civil war? This analysis on post-election crisis paints a worrying picture of uncertainty characterised by abductions,death, national and international condemnations of electoral process by NGOs and incompetence of the national electoral commission. MUB
2.	Democratic Republic of Congo: Roman Catholic accuse government of treachery, lies and terror
	Author: Reuters	Date Written: 13 January 2012
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Radio Netherlands Worldwide Africa
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.rnw.nl/
	Key Words: DR Congo, elections, church, government, treachery
	Summary & Comment: As counting for parliamentary vote continues in DR Congo, the Catholic church council of Bishops have urged the electoral commission to fix the errors that marred the presidential elections or resign. Will the results of parliamentary elections be credible? MUB
3.	Rwanda: Some truth and justice at last
	Author: Gerald Caplan	Date Written: 12 January 2012
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Pambazuka News Issue 565
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Rwanda, genocide, Habyarimana, Kagame, Mugesera, inquiry
	Summary & Comment: President Kagame did not shoot down the plane of late president Habyarimana that triggered the 1994 genocide,says a French inquiry report. Also, Canada is extraditing alleged genocide suspect, Leon Mugesera. Two stories the author critical opined are linked and definitely answers the question of who was morally responsible for triggering the genoci . . . [expand]
4.	Cameroon-China: A wedding with uncertain prospects
	Author: Ngala Killian Chimtom	Date Written: 11 January 2012
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Inter Press Service Africa
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.ips.org/africa
	Key Words: Cameroon, China, cooperation, win-win, uncertainty
	Summary & Comment: It was supposed to be a ‘win-win’ economic relationship between Cameroon and China. Evidences point to the contrary. Cameroon is not only suffering from increasing trade imbalances, Chinese businesses are destroying local entrepreneurship as well as local businesses losing out to competition within Cameroon and Central African sub-region. There see . . . [expand]
5.	Cameroon: Villagers hope diamonds bring development
	Author: ANP/AFP	Date Written: 1 January 2012
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Radio Netherlands Worldwide Africa
	Secondary Category: Resource Extraction	Source URL: http://www.rnw.nl
	Key Words: Cameroon, resource extraction, diamond, C&K Mining, villages, development
	Summary & Comment: South Korea’s C&K Mining is set to begin diamond mining in eastern Cameroon this year. Some six local villages close to the mining fields expect promises to materialize into social development projects. However, for a company already involved in controversies both in Cameroon and in S. Korea, villagers hope for roads, water, electricity and hospita . . . [expand]
6.	Chad and Cameroon: Planning against the threats of Nigeria’s Islamist group, Boko Haram
	Author: Bisong Etahoben	Date Written: 29 December 2011
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Africa Review
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.africareview.com
	Key Words: Chad, Cameroon, Boko Haram, security
	Summary & Comment: A regional strategy is being considered to contain the spread of the agenda of Nigeria’s Islamist group, Boko Haram into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Central African Republic. With growing suspicion that Boko Haram has infiltrated Islamic schools in Northern Cameroon to sign up new recruits, it might be already too late to stop them. MUB
7.	Democratic Republic of Congo’s road to uncertainty
	Author: Mwenda wa Micheni	Date Written: 22 December 2011
	Primary Category: Central Region	Document Origin: Africa Review
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.africareview.com
	Key Words: DR Congo, post-election, Kabila, Tshisekedi
	Summary & Comment: For ordinary Congolese, a difficult end of year beckons. There is uncertainty over who will rule the country. This article highlights a chronology of events that led to this crisis. MUB