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Senegal: President to change constitution to seek lifetime in office?
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade is almost as old as the 85 year old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and although he has not ruled half...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina changes tactics, orders arrests in Ravalomanana camp
The Malagasy war of leaders continues unabated. Andry Rajoelina will not give up without a fight. The President of the High Transitional Authority has...
Mugabe slammed for racist remarks, MDC to re-evalute power sharing deal
The Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), a body that advocates for
the interest of a few remaining white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe
have boldly castigated Robert...
Madagascar: “the foundations of a civil war is being witnessed”
Renewed violence in Madagascar over the weekend left two dead and one seriously injured, following a unilateral decision taken by Andry Rajoelina, President of...
Uganda: The confused state of politics and kingdoms
Clashes erupted on 10 September in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, following a planned visit by King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi of the Buganda kingdom to...
Ethiopian opposition criticize subsidy reimbursement clause
Ethiopia has slashed 31 million birr from a 180 million birr budget request submitted by the country’s electoral board towards the upcoming general elections...
Gabon: André Mba sought coup support from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon…
Francis Sala Ngouah Beaud, a journalist and former member of Andre Mba Obame’s (who came in second in the August 30 election) campaign team,...
Gabon: Opposition leaders face travel ban
Gabonese authorities have banned members of opposition political parties from leaving the country. Paul Mba Abessole, head of the Rally for Gabon (RPG), was...
Mugabe escapes SADC censure
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe seems to have escaped censure from
his Southern African peers today in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo - but at least...
Zimbabwe: ZAPU attacks Zanu-PF and MDC ahead of SADC talks
An opposition political party in Zimbabwe has called on Southern African Development Community not to extend its tolerance on Zimbabwe saying the parties in...
Violence in Gabon: No end in sight
Gabonese are refusing to accept the Bongo dynasty without a fight as vandalism and civil break down continue to destabilize the country in the...
Gabon: Electoral democracy justifies electoral dynasty
News of the presidential victory of Mr. Ali Bongo, son of Late Gabon president, Omar Bongo, as new leader of Gabon, came as little...
Gabon: French residents, Consulate and oil interests under attack
"I am and always will remain the president of all Gabonese," the new president, Ali Bongo, declared following the proclamation of his victory Thursday...
Violence erupts in Gabon after Ali Bongo wins election, main contenders injured another flees
The interior minister of Gabon, Jean François Ndongou, announced Thursday noon that Ali Bongo had won the presidential elections. A result that his contenders...
Startling Gabonese election
Only a month ago, the Gabonese presidential election seemed like it held a sure victory for Ali Bongo. Son of the late Omar Bongo...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai hints on a possible pullout from inclusive government
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has hinted for the first time that his MDC party would pull out of the seven month inclusive government if...
Gabon: Fear of post-electoral violence grips Libreville
According to the President of the Autonomous and Permanent National Electoral Commission (CENAP), Rene Aboghé Ella, results of Sunday's presidential election will be announced...
Gabon: Three candidates declare themselves winners
Gabonese were at the polls, Sunday, to elect a new president to replace Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died last June after spending 41 years...
Microsoft conniving with Poland to promote racism?
A Blackman mysteriously turns into a Whiteman. What was supposed to be a pictorial prowess ended up as a clumsy patchwork by Microsoft on...
Gabon: Obame, a new threat to the Bongo dynasty
Eleven Gabonese presidential candidates and Gabon's largest ethnic group, Fang, has opted to throw their weight on one of the presidential candidates, so as...
Zimbabwe: Zuma may tackle “deviant behaviour” in the Mugabe camp
South African President Jacob Zuma jetted into Harare on Thursday evening and was quickly whisked to a state banquet for talks with President Mugabe...
Zimbabwe: Upsurge of Zanu-PF mandated violence alarming
Zimbabwe army soldiers stepped up attacks on civilians in the month of June as the country’s power-sharing government showed little desire to act to...
Gabonese flock en masse out of capital
As the August 30 presidential election draws closer, residents of Libreville, capital of Gabon, have been moving en masse to the countryside. They are...
Madagascar: Who will head the transition government?
The current strong man of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, alongside three former presidents of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy met Wednesday in...
Niger: Opposition seek ECOWAS intervention in President’s hold on power
Opposition parties in Niger have not said their last word just yet. They intend to make ECOWAS officials, who met Monday in Abuja for...
Guinea: Military Junta to change uniform and run for President?
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has told Guineans, and foreign observers that he cannot be stopped should he change his Military Camouflage to a Politicians...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Zanu-pf soon to hold parliamentary majority?
Zimbabwean police have arrested 10 opposition Parliamentarians from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change. The MPs were arrested at the Ministry of...
Gabon: Released electoral roll too excessive?
The official Gabonese electoral roll containing as many as 813 164 names was Tuesday handed over to the the independent national electoral commission (CENAP)...
Mozambique Constitutional Council dumps two-thirds of presidential candidates
Mozambique's Constitutional Council (CC), the body in charge of verifying the nomination papers of presidential candidates, has rejected six candidates who had submitted their...
Gabon: Ali Bongo quits government
Ali Bongo Ondimba has been discharged of his government functions. The presidential hopeful for the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG, ruling party) ahead of the...