Politics - Page 20
Zimbabwe: MDC-Zanu-PF coalition on the edge
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party, fed up with President Robert Mugabe's delaying tactics on Sunday fell short of pulling out of the fragile...
Malawi: Presidents fight to become Presidents again
Malawians vote Tuesday in parliamentary and presidential elections wiith a record 220 women running in the polls, representing about 20% of all candidates...
Côte d’Ivoire: November 29 set for Ivorian elections
“The electoral college of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivorians, editor’s note) is summoned to go to the polls on 29 November 2009 in...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina to run for President?
Andry Rajoelina Wednesday stated that he would not run for president in the next presidential elections. Unless of course, if the former head of...
Pro-Zuma ‘soldiers’ threaten SA minority leader Zille
South African opposition leader Helen Zille has been threatened by the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association to render the Western Cape...
Zuma overhauls cabinet, no place for Winnie Mandela
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has described as "well-balanced" the Cabinet appointed by President Jacob Zuma. Zuma made sweeping changes to...
Zimbabwe: Deputy PM sacks MPs in a dangerous move
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara whose position is shaky in his smaller MDC faction today suspended six officials including three MPs in a desperate...
Zimbabwe: Surprise release of Jestina Mukoko
In a dramatic turn of political events in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko was released on bail with eighteen opposition activists...
Nigeria: Marred Ekiti polls and electoral double standards
Gubernatorial re-run elections in Ekiti, Nigeria has been tainted with the alleged usage of hired thugs to intimidate people, bribery of election officials and...
Of African women, Greeks, the art of sex and politics
May Day brought with it not only the first whiff of spring but a crop of strikes and protests – the canoodling season and...
Madagascar: A political crisis without end…
Manandafy Rakotonirina, the Prime Minister designated by Marc Ravalomanana, exiled President of Madagascar, was arrested Wednesday in Antananarivo. Mr. Rakotonirina had published, Tuesday, a...
Coptic (Egyptian Christian) priest is unjustly tried and imprisoned in Egypt
Father Mattaos Wahba is the priest of Archangel Michael Church at Kerdasa, Geza, Egypt. He is a pious man of God who encourages...
Kenya: Speaker’s intervention prevents coalition split
Kenneth Marende, Kenya’s speaker of parliament, averted a potential crisis on Tuesday with a ruling that stalled an explosive power struggle within the country’s...
Morocco: A reform campaign ahead of local elections
An information campaign has been launched in Morocco to tackle problems associated with the functioning of communal management ahead of reform projects that will...
Madagascar: Headed for a more serious crisis
International donors need to face up to the seriousness of Madagascar's deepening humanitarian crisis and, perhaps more importantly, they need to pay up, said...
Why is Africa left out? UN power imbalance under scrutiny
The leaders of the African Union, Brazil, Japan, and India, amongst leaders of other developing states have called for a reform of the United...
A veiled Muslim woman at the US White House
A veiled Muslim woman at the White House? As impossible as that may sound, Dalia Mogahed, a young Muslim of Egyptian origin, has been...
Zuma predicts 70% ANC win in South African elections
In coming South Africa president Jacob Zuma last night told hundreds of African National Congress supporters that the party is like a lion that...
Zimbabwe: Unity gov’t on the brink, MDC calls for Mbeki
One of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) senior facilitators of the inclusive government negotiations between Zanu-PF and the two factions of the opposition...
South Africa elections: Early count show wide ANC lead
About two million votes were counted in South Africa’s the national elections by 6.15am on Thursday morning. The results, which put the ANC far...
Lesotho PM’s assassination attempt, suspects arrested
Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has escaped an assassination
attempt in the country's capital of Maseru.
According to reports from the tiny mountainous kingdom, on Wednesday
night...
South Africa: Thabo Mbeki not sure of a Zuma win?
Former South African Thabo Mbeki said "God knows, I don’t know." when asked who he thought was going to win the elections...
South Africa: Stolen ballots discovered amid Protests
Millions of South Africans go to the polls today in the most hotly contested general election since the advent of black majority rule in...
COPE threat sees Zuma begging for massive ANC support
South Africa's ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma has called for a massive turnout at an election on Wednesday to give his ruling party a...
South African Elections: Another victory for Jacob Zuma
More than 23 million South Africans will go to the polls on Wednesday to elect their members of parliament for the fourth time since...
Nigerian President seemingly uninterested in second term
Nigerian President Mr. Umaru Yar’Adua refused to state his desire to run for second term in office during a political convention in Abuja yesterday....
Mbeki out of SADC talks, Mugabe summons PMs on GPA
A Southern African Development Community delegation is expected in Harare Tuesday for talks in a bid to avoid a collapse on the fragile...
Voting rights for Nigerians abroad soon a reality
Nigerians living abroad will be given the right to vote from their host countries, if a new bill canvassed for by Nigerian deputy Senate...
Zuma, Mandela, Jesus and an uncertain ANC future
Just days ahead of his near-certain victory in South Africa’s elections, Jacob Zuma on Sunday pledged radical social improvements for the poor and said...
South Africa Trade Unions threaten France for apology
A member South Africa’s Young Communist League was sent back to South Africa from France as he arrived in the French capital to attend...