Governance - Page 11
Liberia: Sirleaf lauded for massive drug bust
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been praised for putting together an anti-corruption administration after authorities of the Liberia National Security Agency aided an...
Uganda summit to assess ICC effectiveness
Representatives from more than 100 countries are meeting in Kampala, Uganda to assess the achievements of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and push forward...
African Union Day: Calling on Africa to unite
For decades the dream of an African continent united under one leadership, one government with a prosperous people with shared values, shared interest, common...
Cameroon: A 50th independence anniversary amid joy and pain
Last week dignatories from around the world joined President Paul Biya to celebrate 50 years of independence in Cameroon. But beyond the pomp and...
Chad President drives UN mission out despite insecurities
Displaced Chadians and refugees from the Sudanese province of Darfur will sort out their own security as the 4,375-strong United Nations forces prepare to...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina handpicks his new ministers
Andry Rajoelina, President of the Malagasy High Transitional Authority (HAT), partially reshuffled his government on Monday, bringing in ten new ministers, including five military...
Zimbabwe: MDC and ZANU-PF to answer for unconstitutional acts in court
A political pressure group in Zimbabwe, The Voice for Democracy Trust has dragged President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to court for...
Ethiopia: Observers approve electoral process as opposition protest
Results of Ethiopia’s first elections in five years will be released on 21 June despite claims the process was marred with electoral irregularities. While...
Ethiopia: Government and opposition parties unite in Nile water agreement
Ethiopian opposition parties and government have presented a united front on the new Nile treaty signed between five of the upstream countries and urged...
Technology: Africa’s way out
At 11 p.m. on 2 January 2008, back from Nairobi, Kenya, an exhausted Ory Okolloh — a Johannesburg-based Kenyan lawyer in her thirties —...
Madagascar: Bloody police and military mutiny attracts popular support
A gunfire battle erupted between the Forces d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (FIGN) at the Fort Duchesne military barracks and security forces, Thursday,...
Nigeria: New President commands respect among rebels
Rebels of Nigeria’s Niger Delta have decided to support peace, stability and the return of a functioning rule of law to the troubled region...
France: Burqa debate turns into fistfight
A debate organised by "Ni putes ni soumises", a French NGO, Tuesday night in Paris, on the question of the full Islamic veil ended...
Africa Contact press statement on the situation in Swaziland
Africa Contact (Denmark) has been actively involved in the struggle for democracy and human rights in Swaziland for over ten years by supporting the...
Somalia’s Divided Islamists
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) must engage dissidents among the country's insurgent groups in order to strengthen its authority and combat al-Qaeda inspired extremists.
Somalia's...
Southern Sudan gets a strong army
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has built an army that can protect the boundaries of southern Sudan if secession takes place.
Southern Sudan is...
Ugandan women seek protection against men with “big sexual organs”
Women leaders in Uganda want a clause in the domestic relations law that allows them to divorce men with big sexual organs.
During a workshop...
Guinea: Presidential election campaign begins
It’s official. Campaigning for the June presidential election began Monday in Guinea. The list of candidates for the election, scheduled to take place June...
Somalia: Government under rebel attack
Somalia is niggling from attacks on its parliament that left 11 people dead and 20 injured, in the wake of calls for reform in...
South Africa – Zimbabwe: Twin Case of Treachery in Southern Africa
South Africa and Zimbabwe have a strong tradition of sharing not only borders, business, culture and tradition but also weather patterns. The month of...
Sudan and Darfur region challenges daunting
United States Special Envoy Scott Gration acknowledged at a congressional hearing that the challenges facing Sudan and the Darfur region are daunting, with a...
Nigeria oil sector gets Chinese facelift under militants’ watchful eyes
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and China's State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) have signed a $23 billion agreement which will see the construction of...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe orders extensive export of wildlife to North Korea
A group of conservationists in Zimbabwe has claimed that animals are being captured in the country’s biggest game park under a presidential decree for...
South Africa copies Zimbabwe’s brutal youth national service programme
South Africa has resolved to carbon copy Zimbabwe's condemned national service for all youths.
Zimbabwe introduced national service for youths that quickly turned into...
Nigeria’s unlikely new Vice-President
Nigerian political scene continues to witness significant events as newly sworn-in president Mr. Goodluck Jonathan appoints a less-known politician as his vice president, a...
Uganda to seek permission from foreign countries to pursue LRA rebels
The government of Uganda will continue hunting for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and their leader Joseph Kony, wherever they are, until they are...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s men to take Roy Bennett case further
The recently acquitted Roy Bennett of the Movement for Democratic Change run inns with the courts is far from being over. The state has...
Madagascar: Sanctions force leader into submission
Malagasy leader, Andry Rajoelina has moved to settle the political instability in the island country by announcing that he would not participate in the...
Sudan: Darfur unrest returns
The fragile peace achieved in Darfur region of Sudan is under threat as the main rebel group in the region promises an “all-out war"...
Zambian politicians at each other’s throats over HIV and Heart tests
Mud-slinging in Zambian politics has entered a new turf with politicians challenging each other to publicly reveal their health conditions.
Outspoken opposition leader of Patriotic...