enactment
of the necessary legislation in the new year, then seek a
dissolution
to enable the people to determine who should
undertake
the responsibilities of government in the challenging period ahead
thereafter
."
Prosecutors at the war crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have said he gave licence to his rebel forces to attack civilians eight years ago. The chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the International Criminal Court in The Hague that Mr Bemba failed to stop his troops from using mass rape as a weapon during the
suppression
of a coup in the neighbouring Central African Republic. The defence said he was not responsible for his soldiers' crimes.
Politicians in northern Nigeria have chosen the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan in party primaries
ahead of
next year's election. Mr Abubakar, who's from the north, hopes to become the presidential candidate of the governing party
rather than
Mr Jonathan, who's a southerner. Caroline Duffield has this report.
It is a
stunning
political comeback for one of the big beasts of Nigerian politics - Atiku Abubakar. He's a deep and intense personality. He was one of the founders of the People's Democratic Party, which has won every election since the end of military rule, and he served as vice president under Olusegun Obasanjo for eight years. But he left the PDP in a fury after