Governance - Page 10
Zimbabwe: Rwandans refuse repatriation over extermination fears
Rwanda refugees resident in Zimbabwe are resisting moves to be repatriated to their homeland claiming that they would be killed once they set foot...
Somaliland: Peaceful presidential election defies al-Shabab
Autonomous state of Somaliland held its presidential elections with thousands of people coming out to vote despite threats from Islamist rebels, al-Shabab. Many voters...
Madagascar: 50 years of independence and still in crisis
Madagascar is celebrating its fiftieth independence anniversary in a backdrop of division as Malagasy political groups opposed to Rajoelina, the country's self-proclaimed president of...
Guinea holds first democratic elections
Guinea is set for its first democratic vote in half a century on Sunday after clashes between rival parties on Thursday left at least...
Caribbean leaders join African Union meeting in Uganda
Uganda has invited thirteen Caribbean heads of state from to attend
the African Union (AU) summit due to take place in Kampala in July2010.
51 heads...
The Folly of African Entrepreneurship
Zimbabwe, like most developing African countries burdened with the yoke of authoritarian oppression, force-feeds citizens with policy prescriptions only meant to satisfy political egos...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe to refuse new Tsvangirai ministers?
Zimbabwe's Prime Minsiter Morgan Tsvangirai is on Wednesday expected to pull a shocker by firing "incompetent ministers" from his MDC...
The Worst of the Worst
A continent away from Kyrgyzstan, Africans like myself cheered this spring as a coalition of opposition groups ousted the country's dictator, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev....
Sudan: Prospects of Darfur peace deal agreement bleak
The Sudanese government attacked a Darfur rebel group Liberty and Justice Movement (JEM) hours after Qatari mediators and UN officials proposed peace talks, plunging...
Sudan: PCP appeal for Al Turabi’s release or trail
The Popular Congress Party (PCP) yesterday went to the Sudanese Constitutional court to appeal for the release of it's leader, Dr Abdallah Turabi.
"We have...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list
A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Giving Africa’s displaced people a new lease of life
It was a departure they never had time to prepare for. Seeking to escape death amidst fighting between the Senegalese army and rebels in...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai-Mugabe agree on constitution process and election date
Zimbabweans from Monday face a grueling 65 day task in which they will be asked to make contributions towards a home grown constitution.
President Robert...
Nigeria: President vows to flush out kidnappers
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has identified the increasing spates of kidnapping in Nigeria as a threat to development, and has vowed to stamp out...
New DR Congo army to take over from MONUC
The departure at the end of the month of the first group of peacekeepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the...
Guinea: The military won’t go unpunished
Nouhou Thiam, Chief of General Staff of the Guinean Army announced Wednesday that all soldiers must be held responsible for their acts, especially for...
Pelosi Remarks at Ceremony Recognizing Contributions of Enslaved African Americans in Construction of U.S. Capitol
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Republican Leader John Boehner, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Congressman John Lewis, Senator Blanche Lincoln,...
Sudan: List of Cabinet members and State ministers in new Sudan government
List of Cabinet members and State ministers in new Sudan government.
1 - Bakri Hassan Salih - Minister of presidential affairs
2 - Luka Byong...
Guinea army arrests: Payback time or Democratization?
Guinea’s top military officers close to former military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who was shot in the head in an assassination attempt last...
LDF Again Defends the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act on Behalf of African-American Voters
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, which seeks to...
Minister Frattini meets with Rabiatou Serah Diallo, President of the National Transitional Council of Guinea Conakry
Minister Frattini had a cordial meeting today at the foreign ministry in Rome with Mrs. Rabiatou Serah Diallo, President of the National Transitional Council...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe to denounce corrupt Central Bank officials?
The ongoing looting of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) assets by an elite clique of senior government officials has forced President Mugabe to act.
RBZ,...
Switzerland: No hiding place for stolen African assets
Switzerland does not want stolen assets from corrupt individuals or governments in its banks and wants to give them back to those populations who...
Sudan: US supports south Sudan’s independence
The United States has pledged technical and financial support for the referendum of an independent South Sudan amidst fears that civil war, ethic and...
South Sudan: Rebel war-lord chased into Northern Sudan
Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesman, major general Kuol Diem Kuol has said that the rebellion which has been going on in Unity State...
Texas Education Board Makes Stupid Move
Racism continues to roil through the sinews of American society from conservative political candidates and TV news personalities openly calling for the repeal of...
DR Congo-Rwanda: New Tutsi state breeds tension
A state-within-a-state controlled by former Congolse-Tutsi rebels, is emerging in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo once controlled by the Hutu perpetrators...
South Sudan says Sudan Army backing militias
The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of South Sudan has said that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the National Security are supporting...
Obama administration bridges US-Muslim divide
Over the past year, the Obama administration has been reaching out and listening to Muslim communities around the world, focusing on a “new beginning”...
US government pushes for African awareness in America
While news accounts often portray Africa in negative terms, “there is in fact another Africa, an Africa that is an integral part of the...