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Those Sick African Leaders
Former Guinean president died after a long illness. But only a few days before his death, Lasana Conté’s entourage assured everyone of his good...
Ghanaian party boycotts crucial run-off elections
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) says that it would not contest in Friday's voting in the last constituency to determine the outcome of...
Africa: A year of unusual political occurrences
In a brief overview of events in Africa, 2008 has been regarded by some observers as a year of recuring wind rather than a...
Ghana: election results postponed
The final results of the Ghanaian elections won’t be known until next week despite promises from the West African country’s Electoral Commission that the...
Prof. Atta Mills could become Ghana’s new president
Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has taken the lead in Sunday's presidential runoff election in Ghana.
Mills...
Ghana presidential candidates disclose their CVs
The following are the profiles of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and John Atta Mills presidential...
Police has no institutional arrangements to rig elections
With Ghanaians set to vote in Sunday's crucial presidential run-off that features Nana Akufo-Addo, candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Professor...
Mugabe to seize foreign companies but Zanu-PF could kick him out first
After more than 40 years at the helm of ZANU-PF, and nearly 30 years as leader of the country, Mugabe has become a big...
Rumours surrounding the death of Guinean President
Wednesday morning, head of the Le Lynx – La Lance newspaper, Souleymane diallo, was summoned by the office of the Guinean president for publishing...
President of Guinea is not dead
Spokesperson for Guinea's ruling government, Tuesday, denied the veracity of rumours claiming that the president of the country has died. He made the announcement...
ANC takes new opposition party COPE threats seriously
Thousands of delegates cheered South Africa’s newest political party on Tuesday as it launched its campaign to break the ruling African National Congress’s stranglehold...
Somali Parliamentarians say no to president’s decision
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf's decision to sack Prime Minister Hassan Hussein has been labelled as a further setback to the efforts to clinch a...
Somali President fires PM and entire cabinet
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf sacked Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Sunday, after they disagreed for several months on the composition of a power-sharing government.
The Somali...
Ghana: No Alliance! small but strategic party says
The small centre-left opposition party, the Convention People's Party, whose candidate Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, came a distant third in Ghana's 7 December election,...
Nigerian opposition : The real losers are Nigerians
The presidential candidate of Nigeria's main opposition Action Congress (AC), Atiku Abubakar, said Friday that democracy and all Nigerians were the real losers after...
Legality of Nigerian President’s election upheld
Nigeria's apex Supreme Court Friday upheld the 2007 election of President Umaru Yar'Adua and rejected the prayers for its nullification by two opposition presidential...
Zimbabwe cholera spreads to Mozambique, Mugabe says no
With reports of a growing cholera crisis having killed about 800 people as well as spreading to neighbouring Mozambique, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has...
Run-off for Ghana’s main parties NPP and NDC
Ghana's presidential election, held on Sunday, produced no clear winner and a run-off will be held on 28 December, 2008, the Chairman of the...
Ghana’s presidential elections head for a run-off
Following a tense three day wait for Ghana's presidential election results, Electoral officials have indicated that the West African country is likely to hold...
Ghana’s election results getting dangerously close
Reports from Ghana claim that the candidate of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has taken the lead in the count from...
Were the Ghanaian elections free and fair
The ECOWAS Observer Mission that monitored Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday has described the polls as ''free, peaceful, transparent and credible''.
In a...
Ghana: Lessons from an African forerunner
Ghana's presidential candidates are almost level pegging as results trickle in from several constituencies. With Over 140 constituencies counted and about eighty more to...
Time to bury Mugabe’s government
A few clear-sighted African leaders are speaking out in favour of robust intervention in Zimbabwe. Raila Odinga, Kenya's prime minister, Desmond Tutu, the Nobel...
Nkrumah’s daughter Samia wins parliamentary seat
Samia Nkrumah, the daughter of Ghana's first president and Pan-Africanist, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has won a parliamentary seat in the Western Region, ousting a...
Ghana: Election count still on but opposition says it wont accept loss
Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections were marked by an impressive process as all of Africa and the world observed keenly. Results are expected later...
Ghana polls characterised by unending queues
Long queues formed at polling stations across Ghana as voting began in Ghana on Sunday to choose a new president and 230 legislators. Some...
Daring to break Africa’s budding electoral albatross
For most of Africa, the electoral tracks are drawn with paints of violence, rigging, lack of transparency and bogus power-sharing agreements. Some say, electoral...
Mugabe promises new elections if …
Robert Mugabe says he will call for fresh elections in a move to force through a stalled power-sharing deal. He hinted that this could...
Economy at the helm of Ghanaian elections
Ghanaians will go to the polls on Sunday in the fifth presidential and parliamentary elections since the country returned to constitutional rule, with economic...
Why Mugabe staged own military and police riots
Monday rampaging soldiers in Harare may have been an inside job by the Robert Mugabe regime to use it as an excuse to declare...