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Nigeria: U.S. seeks new election boss as President declares new cabinet
Acting Nigerian president Mr. Goodluck Jonathan has sworn in a new cabinet to replace the cabinet members who fought a fierce battle to keep...
Return of the coup
Was the recent coup in Niger that saw the removal of Mamadou Tandja, who despite both domestic and international criticism pushed through a constitutional...
As Election Crisis Unfolds, Darfuris and U.S. Advocates Call on Congress to Exercise More Oversight Over Faltering Sudan Policy
As Sudan's national election descends into crisis amid growing opposition boycotts, U.S.-based Darfuris and policy experts from Sudan Now, a campaign led by a...
Addis Ababa: The African Union deploys an Election Observer Mission to Sudan
Mr Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), has decided to deploy an election observation mission to the Sudan for the general...
Guinea-Bissau: A confused coup d’etat?
Civil unrest in Guniea-Bissau has intensified as rebellion leader threatens to kill kidnapped prime minister, while the army chief remains in detention in what...
Morocco ahead of Algeria and Egypt in democratic transitions in the Arab World
The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) Monday presented its report, on the development of the democratic transition in ten Arab countries for the year 2008,...
France in a hot-spot over Mugabe, El Bashir, Rajoelina affair
The France-Africa Summit set for Nice end of May is said to "have found Paris in a quandary” as it does not want to...
Payback time for Mugabe and cronies as White farmers grab properties
It’s pay back time for Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe.
A group of white commercial farmers who watched in despair as Mugabe regime grabbed their...
Sudan: Al-Bashir threatens to disrupt southern Sudan’s independence
Sudan’s President Mr. Omar al-Bashir has been accused of electoral fraud by the International Crisis Group, but Mr. Bashir has threatened to reject the...
Africa: Make those homosexuals disappear!
In Uganda, there is a burning desire to send them to the gallows. Woe betide those who dare "marry" in Malawi. In Zimbabwe, President...
Ethiopia: Authoritarian tendencies?
Key U.S. lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, have expressed concern for political conditions in Ethiopia, citing authoritarian tendencies by its government as well as...
Western Sahara: Christopher Ross powerless
While touring the Maghreb, the U.N. special envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, witnessed, Tuesday, the antipodal positions of Morocco and the Polisario on...
Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai condemns homosexuals in raw terms
Zimbabwe's Premier Morgan Tsvangirai has joined veteran leader Mugabe
in declaring that homosexuality has no place in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe has in the past made frequent vitriolic...
Nigeria: Sharia law takes precedence over freedom of speech
Issues of civility, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press is splitting the Nigerian public as Nigerian Islamic court bans the debate on...
Zimbabweans: Why they Starve
Robert Mugabe’s brutal thirty year-old reign in Zimbabwe, compounded by a frenzied ten-year mutilation of property rights is once again on the cover page...
Sudan: ICC official describes Sudan polls as Hitler’s election
The International Criminal Court has described the likely reelection of Sudan’s president Mr. Omar al-Bashir as a Hitler election. The Sudanese legislative, regional and...
Uganda under pressure over Bashir’s attendance to key Africa meeting
African heads of state are to deliberate more on maternal, infant and child health, and security matters in the coming AU heads of state...
Zambia President Rupiah Banda excoriated for apathy
An opposition political party in Zambia has launched a fierce attack on the country’s leader, Rupiah Banda saying he is now behaving like a...
Sudan: al-Bashir threatens U.S-funded election monitors
Sudan’s president, Mr. Omar al-Bashir has threatened United States-funded election observers, Carter Center, with expulsion and attacks, should elections scheduled for April 11 be...
Sudan: SPLM up in arms against electoral list
Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) has complained that a good
number of names of its supporters are missing from the voters' list. This comes only...
Uganda: Landslide hit schools relocated to market-place
Over 1000 students who had stopped going to school, due to deadly landslides
that hit three eastern Uganda villages, have today resumed classes in
a market...
New ECOWAS Commission President visits Togo
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, paid a one-day official visit to Togo in connection with the presidential election held...
Ambassador Victor Gbeho, new president of ECOWAS commission, assumes duty
The new President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho on Friday, 12th March 2010 assumed duty at the Commission's headquarters in Abuja,...
Zimbabwe: Zuma’s tough negotiations with Zanu-Pf and MDC emerge
Finer details of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma mediation trip to Zimbabwe are starting to emerge. Last week, Zuma spent two days in...
Madagascar: Ending the Crisis
To end Madagascar's crisis "which deepened with expiration of an Africa Union deadline on 16 March" the mediation should cease trying to implement a...
Zimbabwe: Zuma’s closed door negotiations to lead to early elections?
South African President Jacob Zuma left Harare Thursday night after claiming that he made tremendous progress in his first trip to Zimbabwe as chief...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina won’t budge
A year after grabbing power in Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina remains adamant. Despite African Union (AU) sanctions, announced Wednesday, and an opposition demonstration in Antananarivo,...
African governance architecture meeting adopts way forward
The Meeting on the African Governance Architecture which was being held in Banjul, The Gambia, from the 15th of March, ended today with the...
Nigeria: Acting president asserts control, dissolves perceived disloyal cabinet
The Nigerian interim president, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan has moved to assert his authority over the country by dissolving the cabinet put together by incapacitated...
Kenya: African youth leaders call on governments to involve youth
African governments must create opportunities, support and strengthen
platforms for youth participation in decision-making at local, national, regional, and continental levels of governance, Africa youth...