•    Ethiopia

 

Ethiopian Prime Minister in January 2, 2007 announced continuity of the Ethiopian troops in Somalia for some other weeks to enable the Somali government achieve stability all over the country.

 

In Nairobi, Meles Zenawi held talks with President Mwai Kibaki in January 16 concerning plans of replacing Ethiopian troops in Somalia with other international ones for peacekeeping.

 

In January 29 in Addis Ababa, the 8th African Union ordinary summit began one day after the NEPAD and African Peer Review Mechanism.

 

•  Central Africa

 

Troops of the Central Africa with France assistance have succeeded in March 3 to expel rebellions from Cebrao who tried to step down President François Bozizé.

 

•   Algeria

 

The first African meeting was held in the Algerian capital on January 9 on the peaceful use of the nuke energy with the participation of 45 states representatives and the director of the IAEA.

 

Algerian security forces on February 14 killed 36 terrorist in Ain Al-Qishra Mountains.

 

•  Senegal 

 

Higher Elections Commission on March 1 confirmed the victory of President Abdullah Wad in the presidential elections run on February 25 among other 14 competing candidates.

 

• Sudan

 

The Sudanese presidency on January 10 abandoned sayings about Sudan's acceptance to deploy UN troops in Darfur.

 

On January 24, South Sudan Prime Minister Silva Keur confirmed differentiated viewpoints between the ruling National Conference Party and the SPLM regarding mechanisms of carrying out peace agreement in the south.

 

President al-Bashir on February 16 announced that the African Union will be the sponsor on the implementation of "CAN" statement agreed upon by leaders of Sudan, Chad, Central Africa on the fringes of Africa-France summit that tackled the reconciliation process in triangle borders region among the three countries.

 

On March 11, Sudanese Minister of Justice confirmed his country's rejection to the International Criminal Court and the report by late Human Rights Watch report regarding situation in Darfur.

 

• Somalia

 

On December 29, Somali Premier announced that the parliament will apply the martial laws starting in December 30 along 3 months.

 

The Somali government on January 2 returned all the occupied territories by the Islamic Courts Militias. The government also decided on January 6 the postponement of disarmament process of citizens by force.

 

Somali MPs on January 17 decided to step down the parliament speaker Sherif Hassan Sheikh who intermediated with militias of Islamic Courts before their fall.

 

Somali Premier on March 3 called the Somali tribes to take part in the National Reconciliation conference last March.

 

Ethiopian troops pull out from Kismayu city on March 9 and the Somali government returned the harbour and airport of the city.

 

On March 12, the Somali parliament agreed on the transition of the interim government to Mogadishu after two months of forcing out the Islamic Courts Militias by the assistance of the Ethiopian army.

 

• Guinea

 

Rebellions in Konakri continued their strike on February 12 to pressurize Guinean President to step down his seat.

 

On February 22, Guinean parliament rejected to extend applying the emergency law imposed on the country because of the flux that claims to brush aside President Lansana Konti.

 

• Ivory Coast                               

 

On January 30, President Jebajio launched a direct dialogue with the rebellions to reach a peace accord.

 

On March 4, President Jebajio and leader of the New Rebellion Troops signed an agreement to

 

finalise violence process.

 

• Libya

 

On February 22, the final session of the African Quartet summit to achieve peace in Darfur held in Tripoli was attended by presidents of Libya, Sudan, Eritrea and Chad.

 

 

On March 11, about million Mauritanians went to elect a civilian president after 19 months of a military council ruling.

 

Mauritanian Interior Ministry announced on March 13 that Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdullah, the candidate of Charter Mass candidate obtained 24.79% of the votes and is followed by Ahmed Ould Dadah who got 20.68% of the votes.