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30 December 2005 (Friday)

• At least 27 Sudanese migrants seeking refugee status are killed during a raid by Egyptian police on their protest camp in the suburb of Mohandessin, Giza, in the capital Cairo. The camp is forcibly dismantled. 2,174 protesters are detained. (AFP)

18 December 2005 (Sunday)

• The International Court of Justice rules that Uganda must pay compensation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for human rights violations during the Second Congo War. (ReliefWeb)
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) holds its first national democratic poll in 40 years.(BBC)(Reuters) (Link dead as of 03:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

10 December 2005 (Saturday)

• At least 103 people are killed and 7 injured when Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes en route to Port Harcourt from the Nigerian capital Abuja. (CNN) (Link dead as of 03:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

8 December 2005 (Thursday)

• Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo hugs his bitter foe, the opposition leader Alassane Ouattara, after Ouattara's return from exile for his mother's funeral. BBC

7 December 2005 (Wednesday)

• Two people are wounded in Malawi, which is facing serious food shortages, following clashes between police and people trying to buy cornmeal. (BBC)

6 December 2005 (Tuesday)

• South Africa's axed deputy president Jacob Zuma, who lost his job in post-apartheid South Africa's most sensational corruption scandal, has been charged with rape. (ABC)

5 December 2005 (Monday)

• An earthquake strikes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). Many people are feared dead after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck Lake Tanganyika near the town of Kalemie. (TimesOnLine) (News24) (The Independent) (BBC)

2 December 2005 (Friday)

• Scientists in Gabon and the Republic of Congo discover that three species of fruit bat serve as animal reservoirs for the Ebola virus. The virus probably first spread from animal to human in 1976 by local hunters eating the bats. (Nature) (LA Times) (Link dead as of 03:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC))

1 December 2005 (Thursday)

• South Africa's Constitutional Court declares that current marriage laws restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples are unconstitutional and must be changed within a year. Once the change is made, South Africa will be the fifth country in the world where same-sex marriages are recognized, after Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. (AP via Yahoo) (Link dead as of 03:30, 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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