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Egypt brokers Gaza calm

Egypt brokers Gaza calm

Egyptian officials on Tuesday said they were attempting to broker an agreement between Israel and Palestinian factions to halt the violence in Gaza, but...
Mugabe pumps huge sums into vote buying strategem

Mugabe pumps huge sums into vote buying strategem

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, fighting for political survival in a tricky poll in two weeks, Wednesday ordered the government to award huge salary increases...
Scandal looms in Nigerian power sector

Scandal looms in Nigerian power sector

In a development that will surely be latched onto by the opposition, a parliamentary probe of how the immediate past Nigerian administration frittered away...
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Huge arms cache uncovered in niger delta, Nigeria

The military unit deployed to Nigeria's restive Niger Delta oil region to protect facilities and personnel said Tuesday it had uncovered a huge cache...
Zimbabwe: Blacks and Government fight over White land

Zimbabwe: Blacks and Government fight over White land

Government’s controversial land redistribution policy has been put to the test in the southern province of Masvingo as former fighters for Zimbabwe’s liberation take...
40 people killed in Cameroon clashes

40 people killed in Cameroon clashes

40 people were killed in the violent demonstrations that took place in Cameroon last February, according to a Cameroonian minister of state, Marafa Hamidou...
Kenya: public service not to get power sharing

Kenya: public service not to get power sharing

The recently- signed, power-sharing deal between the government and opposition does not affect senior positions in the civil service, the judiciary and state corporations,...
Zimbabwe: Suspension of passports

Zimbabwe: Suspension of passports

The Zimbabwean Government has suspended processing of passports until after the election because of a lack of funds. However,it is suspected that...
Nigeria police dismiss 35 officers for corruption

Nigeria police dismiss 35 officers for corruption

The Nigerian police have dismissed 35 officers for corrupt practices, after they were summarily tried, the local press reported Saturday. The report quoted the Inspector-General...
Zimbabwe: Plainclothes spies in pre-election stratagem

Zimbabwe: Plainclothes spies in pre-election stratagem

Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has deployed hordes of plainclothes police officers to gauge support for Mr Robert Mugabe ahead of the 29 March polls. ...
Ethiopia: Committee to Protect Journalists condemns arrest

Ethiopia: Committee to Protect Journalists condemns arrest

A global media freedom body, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has condemned the recent arrest and two-week imprisonment of three journalists from Ethiopia...
Kenya: Live broadcast of parliamentary proceedings

Kenya: Live broadcast of parliamentary proceedings

Media coverage of parliamentary proceedings will go live in six months after Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende announced here Friday the formation of...
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Kenya: Approved coalition government bills published

Two proposed laws to legalise the recently-mooted grand coalition government in Kenya - the National Accord and Reconciliation Bill 2008 and the Constitutional Amendment...
Mugabe dishes out tractors, food, money

Mugabe dishes out tractors, food, money

Veteran leader Mr Robert Mugabe will tomorrow further loosen the purse strings by parceling out farm machinery to hand picked land...
Nigeria to deploy 15,000 police personnel for party convention

Nigeria to deploy 15,000 police personnel for party convention

The Nigeria police will deploy some 15,000 police personnel for the convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the capital city of...
Catholic – Muslim Conference announced

Catholic – Muslim Conference announced

Pope Benedict is to hold an unprecedented meeting with Islamic leaders and scholars in Rome in November following an agreement reached on Wednesday to...
Zimbabwe: Election campaigns go hi-tech

Zimbabwe: Election campaigns go hi-tech

Savvy text messaging and cheeky ring tones are the new face of cost-effective political campaigning in Zimbabwe in the run up to the 29...
Kenya: Grand Coalition law to be debated next week

Kenya: Grand Coalition law to be debated next week

A team of three lawyers, led by Kenya's Attorney-General Amos Wako, that was last week mandated to draft a new law and constitutional amendment...
Kenya: Kibaki and Odinga meet

Kenya: Kibaki and Odinga meet

The chief protagonists in the Kenya's post-election dispute, President Mwai Kibaki, and opposition leader Raila Odinga held their first consultative meeting Tuesday since signing...
Cameroon: Crisis continues as inflation surges

Cameroon: Crisis continues as inflation surges

Only a few crumbs were left on the counter at the Boulangerie du Rail delicatessen in Douala after looters swept the shelves of cake,...
Chadian Opposition leader Alive

Chadian Opposition leader Alive

The Chadian opposition leader Ngarlejy Yorongar is alive. The head of the Federation of Action for the Republic (FAR) arrived Sunday in the Cameroonian...
Nigeria: President Yar’Adua challenged at Supreme Court

Nigeria: President Yar’Adua challenged at Supreme Court

Making good his promise, a Nigerian opposition candidate in last year's presidential polls has challenged the recent validation, by the election petition tribunal (Court...
Surprise defection draws insults from Mugabe

Surprise defection draws insults from Mugabe

A TOP official in Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF on Saturday pulled off a surpise to publicly declare that he fully supports Mr...
Cameroon: one TV and two Radio Stations closed in a week

Cameroon: one TV and two Radio Stations closed in a week

Police in the capital, Yaoundé, have forced a popular radio station off the air and confiscated its equipment over commentary critical of the government...
Mozambique’s clandestine abortions

Mozambique’s clandestine abortions

Back-street abortions are well on the way to becoming a chronic health problem in Mozambique, and urgent measures are needed to reduce the number...
Kenya: What next after political deal

Kenya: What next after political deal

After Kenya's laudable power-sharing agreement, humanitarian actors say the hard work has yet to begin - resettling the displaced and reconciling all Kenyans. "We...
Riots in Burkina related to high cost of living

Riots in Burkina related to high cost of living

Violence spread to the capital, Ouagadougou, early on 28 February as demonstrators took to the streets to denounce the high price of food and...
Cameroon wakes up to calm

Cameroon wakes up to calm

Life is slowly going back to normal in Cameroon, four days after the urban transport strike which led to violent clashes leaving several people...
Defence forces chief oders Zimbabweans to vote Magabe

Defence forces chief oders Zimbabweans to vote Magabe

One of the Zimbabwe defence forces top chiefs says he would never salute opposition presidential candidates Dr Simba Makoni and Mr Morgan...
Kenya crises ends

Kenya crises ends

Kenya's political crisis came to a historic end Thursday with the signing of a coalition agreement, setting the pace for equal sharing of cabinet...