November 2005 in Africa

This page deals with events that took place in November 2005 in or of interest to the Continent of Africa.

30 November 2005 (Thursday)

• Gabon: Africa's longest serving president (since 1967), Omar Bongo, wins presidential elections, securing a further seven years. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 05:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

23 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is officially declared as the winner of the Liberian presidential runoff, after she took 59.4 percent of the vote, making her Africa's first elected female head of state. (BBC)
• Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has dismissed his entire cabinet and deputy ministers after voters rejected a draft constitution. (BBC), (Reuters) (Link dead as of 05:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

22 November 2005 (Tuesday)

• Kenyan voters overwhelmingly reject a new constitution, which would have given the president greater power, in a national referendum, which used symbols on the ballot paper to assist illiterate voters. (BBC)

21 November 2005 (Monday)

• As more than one million Zambians face severe food shortages due to drought, President Levy Mwanawasa declares a national disaster and appeals for international food aid. (BBC)

16 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• In the 2005 Burkina Faso presidential elections incumbent Blaise Compaoré celebrates victory several days ahead of the release of the voting results. International watchdogs and opposition officials allege widespread vote rigging. (BBC)

15 November 2005 (Tuesday)

• Uganda: Police clash with rioters in Kampala. During the riots, one man is killed. The riots were sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. (Times Online) (BBC) Daily Monitor

14 November 2005 (Monday)

• Somalia: 8 men were sentenced to death today for the murder of British Aid workers Richard and Enid Eyeington in Somaliland in October 2003. SOS BBC

13 November 2005 (Sunday)

• Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi defends his handling of opposition demonstrations against claims of abuse (BBC)
• 7.5 millions voters in Burkina Faso go to the polls to elect a president. (BBC)

11 November 2005 (Friday)

• The AIDS Healthcare Foundation accuses pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline for boasting its short-term monopoly profit by not increasing production of the anti-AIDS drug AZT, despite the surge in demand, hence creating a shortage that affects many patients in Africa. (AllAfrica)

• A sharp rise in examination fees sparks riot at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. (BBC)

10 November 2005 (Thursday)

• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins the Liberian presidential runoff, defeating George Weah becoming the first female president in Africa.

• In Addis Ababa the capital city of Ethiopia, 7 members of the police have been killed and 250 sustained injuries from attacks by rioters using guns, hand grenades and stones. (AllAfrica)

9 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• The United Nations peace keeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea reported that the border conflict between the two countries remained tense and potentially volatile, following troop movements on both sides of the border over the past week. The border remains disputed after the two-year Eritrean-Ethiopian War that ended five years ago.(Angola Press) (Mail & Guardian)
• Facing the world's highest HIV infection rate, Swaziland is drafting a Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Bill proposing the death penalty for child rape, incest and the intentional transmission of the HIV. (IRIN)

7 November 2005 (Monday)

• Sierra Leone Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas says that polio has been eradicated in the country, following a successful immunization program. (allAfrica)
• The United Nations is asking donors for US$3.2 million to help six West African countries fight cholera. The disease has killed at least 700 people and infected over 42,000 in the region since June, a sharp rise due to the unusually heavy rains this year. (allAfrica)

6 November 2005 (Sunday)

• A bomb explosion sets off near a convoy of cars carrying Somalia's prime minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi in Mogadishu. Although the PM escapes unhurt, 9 people have been killed and 20 others wounded. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 05:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

• International Food Policy Research Institute releases a report which says that an estimated 200 million people in Africa are under-nourished, including 40 million who face hunger, caused by food shortage, profound poverty and civil conflicts. (AllAfrica)

5 November 2005 (Saturday)

• The Seabourn Cruise Line cruise ship Seabourn Spirit evades an attack by pirates off the coast of Somalia. (Yahoo! News) (Link dead as of 05:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
• Scientists at Makerere University, Uganda, have approved the use of DDT to fight Malaria. (allAfrica)

4 November 2005 (Friday)

• Clashes continue in Debre Berhan, while government forces succeed in pacifying Bahir Dar and Awassa. The Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba remained calm, with few shops open and no taxis operating. (BBC)

3 November 2005 (Thursday)

• Measles Initiative (MI) announces that since 1999, more than 200 million children in Africa have been vaccinated against measles, reducing the infection rate by 60 percent and saving 1 million lives. (allAfrica)

2 November 2005 (Wednesday)

• Guinea-Bissau's President Nino Vieira appoints Aristides Gomes as new prime minister, replacing the dismissed Carlos Gomes Júnior. (xinhua)

• : At least 23 people were killed and 150 wounded in clashes between opposition supporters and police in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 05:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
• : A two-day operation to free four local election officials kidnapped in Democratic Republic of the Congo's Nord-Kivu province kills 32 militiamen and 2 soldiers. (Reuters) (Link dead as of 05:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.
• allAfrica.com
• Reuters, Africa
• ReliefWeb
• UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)

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