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Opposition warns of protests in Uganda
Opposition in Uganda has warned that should the forthcoming elections be
rigged, they would resort to protests like those taking place in Ivory coast, Tunisia...
Egypt: Live Updates – Video
Human Rights Watch researcher Daniel Williams was detained by Egyptian security forces in Cairo today.
Williams was one of several international and Egyptian human rights...
Red flag over Ghana’s census results
The Census Secretariat will release provisional results of the census today.
The figures were initially scheduled to be released last Monday but for technical reasons.
Speaking...
Egypt PM apologises for violence
Egypt’s prime minister has apologised for a fresh wave of violence in Cairo last night, which resulted in the death of a further five...
The end of dynastic presidential politics in Africa?
The political ambitions of Gamal Mubarak who is widely tipped to succeed his father Hosni, president of Egypt, is looking particularly grim following recent...
Nigeria: Threats of north Africa-like revolt skewed
The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) alerted Nigeria's leaders to urgently address unemployment and poverty otherwise face a Tunisia-like or Egyptian-like revolution revolt. Nigeria, however,...
Two fevers plague the Ivory Coast
Two months after Ivorian citizens went to the polls to elect a president, they are still suffering the effects of a showdown between Laurent...
Egypt: Mubarak ‘will torture us’
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would relinquish power after elections are held in the police state in September, but protesters insist he...
North Carolina hosts 2012 Democratic Convention
The White House used First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday to roll out word that Charlotte will host the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
"I am...
Obama: Can he live up to the promises made in his Cairo speech?
In his 2009 Cairo speech President Obama acknowledged that tensions between the Western and Muslim worlds have “been fed by colonialism that denied rights...
Egypt: Why Washington must not worry about Mubarak’s ouster
Some political analyst have said that the removal of Egyptian dictator President Hosni Mubarak would lead to the fall of the police state and...
Florida strikes down Obama health care law
A federal judge in Florida has tossed out the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama, setting up what is likely...
Egypt political crisis: Washington-Mubarak relationship mulled
Leader of the Egyptian revolution has called for the United States to end its “life support for the dictator” President Hosni Mubarak, demanding that...
Obama picks new press secretary
Jay Carney, the spokesman for Vice President Joe Biden, will replace Robert Gibbs as President Obama's press secretary, the White House announced Thursday.
A former...
Uganda: Heavy security deployment trigger concern
Opposition parties in Uganda have complained about heavy deployment of
security personnel in the East African country ahead of the February 18 presidential elections.
Ugandan opposition...
Tunisian PM succumbs to pressure, names new ministers
Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi Thursday night reshuffled the country's week-old transitional government. Senior ministers who served under the deposed president, Zine El Abidine...
Ethiopia’s most powerful female politician steps down
Birtukan Mideksa, a renowned former judge and leader of Ethiopia's powerful opposition party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) has decided to step-down from...
Uganda: Museveni’s ‘gambler’ comments condemned
President Yoweri Museveni has described opposition politicians who claim
they also want to sit in the "chair" as gamblers who cannot solve Uganda’s
problems.
“When you want...
Egypt: The Arab democratic revolution hits Egypt
The wave of democratic revolution blowing across northern Africa has recently swept Egypt, as pro-democracy groups in the tens of thousands took to the...
Obama address calls on US to sacrifice and innovate
President Barack Obama has used his annual State of the Union address to outline his plan for growing U.S. jobs and making America more...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe and Tsvangirai guilty of violent abuses?
The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch says Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has no capacity to stop rampant...
Rahm Emanuel denied run at Chicago mayor
Rahm Emanuel, who left Chicago to join the Obama administration as White House chief of staff, should not appear on the Feb. 22 mayoral...
Ivory Coast: A battle over financial signature
Philippe-Henri Dacoury-Tabley, Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), was forced to resign over the weekend by the Conference of Heads...
Zimbabwe officials plan pro-Mugabe and ZANU-PF campaign
One of Robert Mugabe’s trusted spin-doctors has rubbished off possibilities of Tunisian-type street protests in the country to topple the veteran ruler. Meanwhile, massive...
Uganda: Opposition could “use force to remove” Museveni
Opposition in Uganda has warned president President Yoweri Museveni against copying embattled Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo by refusing to handover power if he...
Uganda: President denies campaign help from Kenya
President Yoweri Museveni who is also the Presidential Candidate of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) has hit back at opposition critics who claimed that...
John Mahama: The Politics of Peace
The practice and promotion of peace is a powerful tool of diplomacy that has all-too-often been misunderstood, especially in Africa. This became clear to...
International recognition vital for Southern Sudan
Last Saturday evening the week long referendum on self-determination for southern Sudan ended. Polling stations closed, ballot boxes were sealed and over the coming...
Ivory Coast: Botswana moves to further isolate Gbagbo
Arrangements are underway for President Alassane Ouattarra's first official visit outside his country since he was recognized by the international community as winner of...
Tribute to Patrice Lumumba: His last letter
As Africa this week pays tribute to Patrice Lumumba, one of the continent's greatest men of all time, Afrik-News.com brings you an excerpt of...