Equatorial Guinea’s interior ministry has announced the final results of Sunday’s election. Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been re-elected with 95.37% of the votes. In a speech he gave on Sunday, Obiang, who has been in power for over 30 years in the small but oil rich country, said he expected no less than 97 per cent of the total votes. Although, in 2009, GDP per capita was estimated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) at a staggering $39,916 dollars in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, which is among the highest in the world and on par with Spain and Italy, a vast majority of Equatoguineans live in poverty as the small Central African country battles with dismal socioeconomic indicators. - Friday 4 December 2009 - 16:30

Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara is being re-evacuated to Morocco for extra medical care, a day after he was wounded in an assassination attempt. According to France24, there are conflicting accounts of the severity of Camara’s injury, with multiple reports of a bleeding head wound. There are also conflicting reports concerning the arrest of Lieutenant Aboubacar “Toumba” Diakite, blamed for the attack. Latest reports have indicated that Toumba has gone into hiding - Friday 4 December 2009 - 16:08

Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara is being re-evacuated to Morocco for extra medical care, a day after he was wounded in an assassination attempt. According to France24, there are conflicting accounts of the severity of Camara’s injury, with multiple reports of a bleeding head wound. There are also conflicting reports concerning the arrest of Lieutenant Aboubacar “Toumba” Diakite, blamed for the attack. Latest reports have indicated that Toumba has gone into hiding. - Friday 4 December 2009 - 16:07

Abedi Pele Ayew, legendary footballer from Ghana and three-time African Footballer of the Year believes that an African country can take the 2010 World Cup home. "This is our best chance of lifting the trophy because if you study the history of the World Cup, Brazil are the only team to win it outside their continent… We definitely will have one African team that goes far... I mean as far as raising the trophy… When I make this prediction people laugh, but I believe it," he told the BBC Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria and automatic qualifiers South Africa will be taking part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This year, Egypt, African champions defeated world champions Italy during the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa. - Tuesday 1 December 2009 - 17:39

Foreign Ministers meeting at the summit of the Commonwealth of Nations in Port-of-Spain, have elected Ghana to chair the Commonwealth of Nations’ Ministerial Action Group to co-ordinate and oversee the preparation of the next summit. According to the Daily Graphic, Ghana was chosen ahead of several countries because of its rich credentials in democracy, especially on the African continent, and also the prominent role it had played in the group for the past five decades. - Tuesday 1 December 2009 - 17:36

Leïla Trabelsi, wife of Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, is reported to be actively preparing her husband’s succession, noted Bakchich yesterday, Monday. Her ambition is to find a replacement for her husband. The dictator of the relatively small North African nation is reportedly very ill and is receiving medical treatment in Germany. According to Bakchich, the leader’s departure from power is “imminent”. - Tuesday 1 December 2009 - 16:36

Former African-American sprint queen, Marion Jones, wants to become a professional basketball player, says Sport.fr Since the month of October, the young athlete has been training under the auspices of San Antonio Silver Stars’ technical team. Marion Jones was imprisoned between the months of Marcha dn September 2008 for perjury in a doping case as well as a bank fraud which implicated Tim Montgomery, her partner. - Tuesday 1 December 2009 - 16:30

Al-Qaeda is reportedly behind the abduction of the three Spanish humanitarian workers Sunday in Mauritania, indicates Senego.com. The country has been at the mercy of a series of violent attacks spearheaded by the al-Qaeda terrorists group. Spanish Foreign Minister has called the act a clear “act of terrorism”. - Tuesday 1 December 2009 - 16:26

The international diplomatic corps is frustrated by Blaise Compaoré’s attitude in relation to the Guinean political mediation following the junta’s decision to run in the next presidential elections; a decision that led to the riots that saw the junta killing hundreds of people, RFI has noted. Saïd Djinit, UN West Africa bureau chief, has called the Burkina-Faso President not to swerve from the laid down terms for the negotiations. Compaoré has been accused of inviting the junta to take part in the pending elections; a proposal that has been categorically rejected by the coalition of Guinean political parties. The Burkinabe President’s proposal defies the position of the ECOWAS, the regional organisation that hand-picked him as mediator. - Monday 30 November 2009 - 16:31

The presidential and legislative elections that took place in Namibia over the weekend could be marred in fraud, notes LeFigaro.fr. The claims have been made by four opposition parties. SWAPO, the ruling party, has already declared itself winner although the results are far from being determined. - Monday 30 November 2009 - 16:27