Spotlight on Africa

This week's round-up focuses on the election saga in Guinea Conakry, the much needed peacekeeping troops in Somalia; United States cajoling Sudan to ensure the South Sudan referendum takes place on time and South Africa pushing for greater black ownership in the mining sector.

The public sector strike in South Africa is suspended; a daring prison raid in northern Nigeria; and a look at the Democratic Republic of Congo after a senior UN official admitted that peacekeepers failed the victims of mass rape.

Seven people die in Mozambique riots over rising food and fuel prices; a leaked UN draft report accuses the Rwandan army of genocide in the DRC; and the crippling public sector strike in South Africa enters its third week.

The UN investigates reports of mass rapes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; attacks by Islamist militants in Somalia leave 70 dead; Public sector strikes continue in South Africa; Nigeria's president unveils plans to privatise the country's power sector; Kenya adopts a new constitution.

Public-sector workers strike in South Africa, Nigeria looks at electoral reform and back to South Africa for the SADC summit.

This week Spotlight on Africa reviews the Rwandan presidential elections, considers Chadian President Idriss Deby’s criticism of the French military presence in his country and finds out about star-stunned testimonies at the war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

.Kenya's referendum is passed by a landslide majority, Naomi Campbell testifies about blood diamonds ... plus Rwanda and Nigeria.

The African Union takes on Al Shebab in Somalia after its summit in Uganda. What are President Nicolas Sarkozy's after the kidnap and murder of a French aid worker in the Sahel by Al-Qaeda operatives? And Nigeria's Senate gives the OK for early presidential elections.