by Mayibuye Magwaza
So, the new Madagascan president has gone to the EU, asking them to keep the aid money flowing. South Africa (and the African Union in general) is backing the current talks, after Zuma rejected any notion of using force. Meanwhile, the Mail and Guardian reports that Ravalomanana has been talking to strange chaps [...]

The president of Niger is behaving like, well, a tin-pot dictator:
It appears that Niger has now become the fifth African country to suffer a coup in the past year. It is a disturbing development, undermining the trend towards democracy in the continent as a whole, and it should be of particular concern to Canada, the [...]