Politics - Page 13
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,...
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...
Zambia: Opposition Patriotic Front leader sues Times of Zambia for defamation
On 9 March 2010, opposition Patriotic Front (PF) President, Michael Sata sued the Times of Zambia for defamation and has applied for an interim...
Sudan: More Sudanese Political Parties Sign Electoral Code of Conduct
A further 10 of Sudan's political parties, as well as one grouping of political organizations, have adopted the Sudan Electoral Code of Conduct at...
Chomsky’s optimism of the will
The mood of excited anticipation in the crowd is one more usually associated with a pop concert than with a lecture by an octogenarian...
Nigerians condemn Gaddafi’s call for Christian Muslim split
Nigerians have reacted to Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi's call on the Nigerian state to split on religions lines following the conflicts between Christians...
Ex-wife lashes out bitterly at Nelson Mandela
South Africa's controversial ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, Winnie has rebuked him for neglecting the poor and coming out of prison a changed...
Impossible shoes to fill: Zuma and South Africa’s post-Mandela leadership crisis
In 1996 Nelson Mandela, the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, paid a state visit to Britain. People lined the streets to catch a...
Togo presidential election fraud denounced
Togo voted Thursday to elect its next president. While politicians and observers have welcomed a peaceful election, fraud has been detected in several neighborhoods...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe seeks re-election and British conservative win
Zimbabweans should be ready to go for fresh polls next year with or without a new constitution, President Mugabe has advised his countrymen.
But the...
Zuma hits back at The British as state-visit begins
South African President, Jacob Zuma has lashed out at British tabloid newspapers for derogatory comments about him and his personal life. The Daily Mail...
U.S. prolongs sanctions on Mugabe regime
The United States extended sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s regime for another year, saying that Zimbabwe’s political crisis is unresolved, President Obama announced.
The United States...
Togo: For a peaceful presidential election
"Togolese, let's vote in peace." It is with this slogan that, the political parties, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the traditional and religious...
Some see Obama blotting-out Blacks
Should the first black President of the United States publicly push a “Black Agenda” specifically addressing issues historically sought by the community whose 96%...
W.E.B. Du Bois: A champion of direct political agitation and political protest
Many blacks turned for leadership to the historian and social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). A graduate of Fisk University, a historically black institution...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai warned by Zanu-PF youths
A month long ultimatum has been issued to Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai by Zanu PF youths today for him to call for the removal of...
Nigerian president’s return prompts question from US
The United States Secretary of State has expressed concern over the return of Nigeria’s incapacitated president Mr. Umaru Yar’Adua whose arrival to the country...
Botswana: Ex President faces embarrassment
Former Botswana leader, Sir Ketumile Masire is on course of being embarrassed by a financial institution in his home land. A country he ruled...
Niger: Military seek short transition
United Nations delegations and representatives from the West African regional body Ecowas have been assured by the new government in Niger under a senior...
Ivory Coast: Anti-president sentiments grow
Protest against the president of Ivory Coast has resulted in the deaths of civilians and the injury of many more. Security forces fired live...
Zimbabwe: US backed negotiations to hit the wall as Mugabe lashes out
President Barack Obama of the United States of America has dispatched
a five-member delegation of US congressmen led by Representative
Gregory Meeks to Zimbabwe.
The aim is...
Nigeria: House seeks prevention of future power vacuum
The Nigerian House of Assembly has moved to take a legal stand on how it would handle any future power vacuum created by a...
Zambian head says insulting him is ‘pornography’
Zambian ruler, Rupiah Banda has advised his countrymen to switch off
their radio sets anytime they hear a broadcast that insults him claiming that “insulting...
Kenya: Kofi Annan to broker peace as tensions flare
Former United Nations secretary general, Mr. Kofi Annan, has been called upon to resolve the current power tussle between Kenya’s President Mr. Mwai Kibaki...
Conflict of Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe
A constitutional crisis bearing the hall marks of the same protagonists ten years ago is in full swing in Zimbabwe. At the time it...
Madagascar: Rajoelina vents his spleen at the EU
The Malagasy Government has requested support from the European Union (EU) to hold general elections this year. This decision was taken without first consulting...
Jacob Zuma steals Nelson Mandela’s spotlight?
South African President, Jacob Zuma, has been accused of stealing the spotlight from Nelson Mandela on the twentieth anniversary of his release from prison....
Nigeria gets a new president amid acceptance and rejection
Nigerian Vice president Goodluck Jonathan is now acting president of Nigeria until incapacitated president, Mr. Umaru Yar’Adua recovers from an ailing heart and kidney,...