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Zuma to return to court as President in August?
ANC president Jacob Zuma has vowed not to recuse himself as the party's presidential candidate saying that will be tantamount to pleading guilty to...
Zimbabwe MPs put further strain on dollarised budget
Hard-hit Zimbabwean taxpayers will have to fork out a whopping US$2 million on imported vehicles for the country’s legislators. New MPs and senators in...
Madagascar: The brutal fall of a reckless Political star
On 12 December 2007, a young, good-looking and charismatic former disc-jockey stormed onto Madagascar's political scene. Andry Rajoelina was voted in as the mayor...
ANC attacks a quarrelsome Incatha Freedom Party
South Africa’s ruling party. African National Congress (ANC), on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the country’s Independent Electoral Commission about violence in Durban (Nongoma),...
Return of exiled Roy Bennett to Zimbabwe a danger?
MDC's National Treasurer Roy Bennett who fled Zimbabwe after he was accused of plotting to overthrow Robert Mugabe has returned to the country to...
MDC and Zanu-PF settle political impasse in Zimbabwe
Under intense pressure from its Southern African neighbours, Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change on Friday voted to join a government of national unity...
Lekota believes ANC wants to custom-fit constitution
Mosiuoa Lekota, the leader of the newly formed South African party has accused the ruling ANC of undermining democracy by seeking a political...
Winnie Mandela’s criminal record bars her from politics?
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's, the ex-wife to Neslon Mandela’s criminal record could bar her from running for Parliament in the upcoming elections.
The African National Congress spokesperson...
Confusing reports emerge from MDC and Zanu-PF deal
South African police yesterday opened fire on a group of MDC-T supporters who attempted to break into Union Buildings, venue of the Sadc Extraordinary...
South African opposition sees the big picture
The breakaway party was formed in response to ANC moves to oust Thabo Mbeki as president last September and back ANC leader Jacob Zuma’s...
Settting the stage for a bruising Zuma – Mbeki encounter
When High Court judge Chris Nicholson ruled last year that Thabo Mbeki had used ‘presidential powers’ to influence South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority’s(NPA)...
Desmond Tutu on hunger strike for Zimbabwe
Scores of high-profile personalities, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will embark on a hunger strike until a solution to the Zimbabwean crisis is found.
Save Zimbabwe...
Mutambara openly chides Tsvangirai and Mugabe
Robert Mugabe and his political rival Morgan Tsvangira last night lived up to expectations that they would again fail to reach an agreement over...
Algerian anger over amendment, Bouteflika stands alone
Algerian political parties, RCD, FFS, El Islah… will not take part in the next electoral exercise slated for April this year. Their boycott reveals...
Obama historic inauguration attracts parties and protests
All eyes will be on Washington on Tuesday, but for those unable to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama the party will continue across...
Mugabe planning to charge Tsvangirai with treason
Morgan Tsvangirai, who returned to Zimbabwe Saturday could end up in jail again as his aging rival Robert Mugabe's government has put in place...
Jailed ex-ally marks Omar Bashir’s murky political future
The latest blow to hit Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir, yet has come from the Islamist leader and his one-time close ally, Hassan al-Turabi. A...
ANC to tamper with constitution for Zuma’s immunity?
Jacob Zuma, the clear frontrunner to become South Africa’s next president following elections due within weeks, will go into the campaign facing corruption charges...
ECOWAS kicks Guinea junta out
West African leaders ended their extraordinary summit on Guinea in Abuja, Nigeria, on Saturday, by rejecting a military-led transition in Guinea and barring the...
Nigeria takes political lessons from Ghana
Apparently drawing inspiration from the success of Ghana's opposition in the recently-concluded parliamentary and presidential polls, Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC) party has...
Ghana’s electoral success: Things to be thankful for
Every election has its highs and lows. Ours though could be described as subtle, with the characteristic no holds barred opposition posturing while...
A new Moroccan Mayor for Rotterdam
This is the first time a person of foreign descent has been appointed to run a city in the Netherlands. Ahmed Aboutaleb, of Moroccan...
Ghana’s lesson to Africa
Ghana, where the opposition won a razor-thin presidential election victory at the weekend, has delivered the kind of democratic success story that many nations...
France lauds exemplary Ghanaian democracy
The spokesman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eric Chevallier, Monday commended the transparency and consistency of the presidential elections in Ghana, noting...
Mugabe prepares to announce a new gov’t in February
Following MDC's refusal to form a coalition government with the ruling ZANU-pf after an invitation from Zimbabwe's veteran leader, Robert Mugabe, the latter has...
ZANU-pf defector and Makoni’s ally accused of torture
Former Home Affairs minister, Dumiso Dabengwa, has been accused of personally presiding over tortures by state security agents close to a decade ago. Dabengwa,...
Zuma’s biography: An asset or a liability?
A corrupt careerist, a veteran womaniser and a puppet of the left whose trademark song is “Bring me my machine gun”: Jacob Zuma, the...
Ghanaian losing presidential candidate still concerned
The candidate of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, on Saturday congratulated Prof. John Evans Atta Mills on his victory in the...
Ghana: NPP stops court suits as opposition wins
Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), which made an un successful last minute bid to halt the declaration of results of the 2008 presidential...
Tsvangirai snubs Robert Mugabe’s invitation
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has turned down an offer from President Robert Mugabe to join a coalition government, officials in his party...