Fears that scenes of repression and protest that have consumed parts of North Africa would spread further into the continent following the re-election of President Paul Biya of Cameroon appear to be receding.
Mr Biya has been warmly congratulated by French president Nicolas Sarkozy after being returned to power at the age of 78 – some 30 years after first being elected.
Mr Sarkozy gave assurances to …

So Muammar Gaddafi is no more. But to what extent did he pay with his life less for the torture and oppression for which he was undoubtedly responsible than for his lesser-known empire-building ambitions to create a ‘United States of Africa’?
 
When, Gaddafi helped 45 Africans countries in 1992 to establish the Regional African Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM), he gave the continent its own satellite – in …