October 2007 in Africa

__NOTOC__ This page deals with events in or related to the continent of Africa in October 2007.

• Insurgents assassinate Ahmed Jilaow Adow, a Somali Army General in south Mogadishu, [...] him, his bodyguard and their military driver.(Garowe Online)

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• The Chadian government and three exiled opposition parties -- Younous Ibedou Awad's Alliance of Resistant Democrats (ADR), Chadian Democratic Rally (RDT) and the Union of the Chadian People for National Reconstruction (UPTRN) -- sign in Cotonou, Benin, including an amnesty and the full participation of the opposition to the political life.PANA press (Afriquenligne) (APA)

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• The Ethiopian Parliament re-elects Girma Wolde-Giorgis for a second six-year term.(Google/AFP)

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• An estimated 1,000 former FUC fighters located in Dar Tama, amid voices that they were going to be disarmed, desert the government and move towards the Chadian-Sudanese border.(Reuters)

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• John Njue, the newly appointed Archbishop of Nairobi, is elevated to cardinal statu, becoming the second Kenyan cardinal.(The Standard), dead link

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• South Africa defeats England 15-6 in the final to win the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

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• Six members of a French charity, Zoé's Ark (French: L'Arche de Zoé) are indicted by the Chadian government for child abduction when they attempt to fly 103 children out of Chad to France.(BBC)

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