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Rwanda: Media banned from operation ahead of elections
Last week, Rwanda's Media High Council asked about 30 radio stations and newspapers to apply for permits. The media are currently de facto banned...
Zimbabwe: Sabina Mugabe’s hero status raises eyebrows
Zimbabwe's president Mugabe on Sunday used the burial of his sister as a platform to bolster his previous stand that “Western world must...
Haiti: Wyclef Jean for President?
World acclaimed entertainer Wyclef Jean's family Tuesday confirmed that the former Fugees member will run in the Haitian presidential elections in November. The artist,...
Gaddafi continues push for United States of Africa
Amidst the issues of the African Union offensive in Somalia and an international arrest warrant against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir at the just ended...
“Intervention will harm Iran’s democratic movement”
The head of BBC Persia Service, Sadeq Saba told an audience in the British Parliament on Monday that “any foreign intervention in any shape...
Zimbabwe: Early Zanu-PF campaign jingles ‘alienate voters’
Propaganda songs praising President Mugabe have re-surfaced on Zimbabwe’s heavily state controlled radio and television and are causing a storm in the political circles.
The...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Zanu-PF to face ICC
A United States based Aids advocacy group is planning in August to hand over what it says is evidence on politically motivated rapes committed...
President Obama’s new financial law, a plus or a minus?
While the ‘blue’ faction of the American public believe that another feather has been placed in the cap of U.S President Barack Obama following...
Egypt: Ready for equal rights regardless of religion?
Egyptians are tired of the problems that have persisted for decades: the corruption and bribery that paralyse the nation’s law enforcement and legal system;...
Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf agents in uniformed forces get double salaries
Zimbabwe’s secret agents planted in the country’s uniformed forces have been awarded a double salary from the rest of the civil servants as a...
Guinea military seek to take over power again?
In a televised speech broadcast Sunday, Guinea's Army Chief, Major Ibrahima Balde revealed a planned assassination attempt on the lives of some of the...
Egypt: Mubarak’s “terminal” cancer sparks fears
An insistent rumour over President Hosni Mubarak’s health has been assessed by Western intelligence sources. Israel and its American ally may be losing sleep...
Manipulating the memory of the Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan government has made remarkable strides in infrastructure, the economy, healthcare, and gender equity in political representation, but their continued attack on independent...
Can Obama pull it off?
Two years after a scintillating boisterous win in November 2008 and in the aftermath of three major reforms -- stimulation plan, health care and...
7/7 Bombings showed we do not know our enemy
For most Britons 7th July 2005 will be remembered as the day that al Qaeda terrorists attacked London. But five years on, no link...
South Africa’s World Cup untold story
Less than seven miles from the carefully crafted glitter of Soccer City, the host complex for the World Cup, two legendary South African football...
Vive La France and French Speaking Africa!
Some 400 hundred soldiers from the African continent will be marching alongside their French military counterparts on Wednesday, the French national day. President Nicolas...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Zanu-PF splitting from within
One of President Mugabe’s trusted vanguards, the militant liberation war heroes are turning against him following a scathing media attack.
A splinter group say their...
Burundi: A bloody presidential election
Burundians went to the polls on Monday to re-elect incumbent head of state Pierre Nkurunziza, who was the only candidate to run for president...
Guinea: The long wait for election results
At fifty-two, Guinea, a novice in what concerns democratic practices, seems to have emerged from Sunday's first free and independent presidential election unscathed after...
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...
Namibians slam Zambian president over missing activists
Zambian leader Rupiah Banda on Thursday faced a hostile reception on his state visit to neighboring Namibia over missing freedom fighters some 30 years...
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...
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...
Rwanda: Assassination attempt linked to President Kagame
A critic of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has survived an assassination attempt in South Africa, and his wife has claimed that President Kagame wanted...
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...
Gambia: President accused of locking up rivals
Former heads of the navy and army have been charged with plotting to overthrow Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, but the president has been accused...
Ethiopia: Opposition coalition reject Supreme Court decision over election results
Ethiopian opposition coalition, Medrek’s Executive Committee has decided to go to the Cassation Bench after the Federal Supreme Court rejected their request for an...