Politics - Page 45
Obama, Clinton working the math
Barack Obama talked about math. And he was right to talk about it, because when all is said and done, it appears none of...
Zimbabwe: Bomb scare
There has been a bomb scare at a building where presidential candidate Dr Simba Makoni was addressing his campaign team,...
Zimbabwe: Election campaigns go hi-tech
Savvy text messaging and cheeky ring tones are the new face of cost-effective political campaigning in Zimbabwe in the run up to the 29...
Clinton wins but Obama stays on top
Senator Clinton it seems has the winning edge in both Ohio and Texas, as well as Rhode island whereas Senator Obama won in Vermont....
Kenya: Grand Coalition law to be debated next week
A team of three lawyers, led by Kenya's Attorney-General Amos Wako, that was last week mandated to draft a new law and constitutional amendment...
Kenya: Kibaki and Odinga meet
The chief protagonists in the Kenya's post-election dispute, President Mwai Kibaki, and opposition leader Raila Odinga held their first consultative meeting Tuesday since signing...
Chadian Opposition leader Alive
The Chadian opposition leader Ngarlejy Yorongar is alive. The head of the Federation of Action for the Republic (FAR) arrived Sunday in the Cameroonian...
Obama’s Judgement and Clinton
The fight is for delegates from both Ohio and Texas. Obama leads with almost a hundred delegates and Clinton needs to up her game....
Nigeria: President Yar’Adua challenged at Supreme Court
Making good his promise, a Nigerian opposition candidate in last year's presidential polls has challenged the recent validation, by the election petition tribunal (Court...
Surprise defection draws insults from Mugabe
A TOP official in Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF on Saturday pulled off a surpise to publicly declare that he fully supports Mr...
Sarkozy seeks new ties in Africa
France is to renegotiate all defence agreements with its former colonies in Africa, Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday, in the strongest signal yet that...
Cameroon wakes up to calm
Life is slowly going back to normal in Cameroon, four days after the urban transport strike which led to violent clashes leaving several people...
Defence forces chief oders Zimbabweans to vote Magabe
One of the Zimbabwe defence forces top chiefs says he would never salute opposition presidential candidates Dr Simba Makoni and Mr Morgan...
Kenya crises ends
Kenya's political crisis came to a historic end Thursday with the signing of a coalition agreement, setting the pace for equal sharing of cabinet...
Cameroon riots turn political
The violent protests, following an urban transport strike, sparked by a rise in petrol prices as well as the high cost of living has...
Nigerian opposition condemns Military interference
Nigeria's opposition Action Congress (AC) has criticised the country's military hierarchy for threatening to deal with 'trouble makers' in the aftermath of the Court...
Kenya: Opposition calls off protests, Kibaki yields…
A day after mediation talks were suspended, the government and opposition Wednesday yielded to mounting international pressure to resolve the two-month-old political deadlock by...
Zimbabwe: Licence to kill
Zimbabwe police force has been given a shoot to kill green light in the event of riots breaking out before, during and...
Obama: The Emperor’s New Clothes
Is the democratic campaign getting down and dirty? The reason behind the circulation of Obama dressed in Somali traditional clothes does not escape anyone's...
Nigeria Court upholds Yar’Adua’s election
The Nigerian Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that President Umaru Yar'Adua was validly elected at the last year's presidential poll, throwing out petitions by...
Riots kill 12 in Douala
At least 12 persons were killed in a riot that broke out Monday in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon. The riot stemmed from...
Zimbabwe: Food for votes
Zanu PF, desparate to win the March 29 election at all costs has resorted to its tried and tested tactic of using food to...
“D-Day-cum-Super-Tuesday” for Nigerian Politics
A Nigerian court is expected to rule Tuesday (26 Feb) on whether or not President Umaru Yar'Adua was duly elected at the 21 April...
Kenya: fears of protests as talks stall…
Another round of mass demonstrations looms in Kenya in what the opposition calls "civil disobedience" as talks to end the post-election crisis hits the...
Michelle Obama : The Black Jacky Kennedy ?
They are young and beautiful, just like the kennedys during their time. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, provoke a rebirth of the american...
Nigeria: opposition will accept court’s verdict
Ahead of Tuesday's expected ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Nigeria's disputed presidential elections, one of the petitioners, former Vice President Atiku...
Campaigns and Mugabe’s birthday bash
Analysts say an unfair playing field coupled with political violence and
intimidation of opponents guarantees President Robert Mugabe's government victory at the polls despite...
Zimbabwe: unofficial curfew enforced by police
An unofficial curfew has been imposed by police in several parts of the
Zimbabwe, illegally restricting movement of people in the evenings.
from...
Nigeria: opposition sceptic about budget allocation
The most vocal opposition party in Nigeria, Action Congress (AC), Sunday lambasted the National Assembly (parliament) for ''unilaterally raising its allocation in the 2008...
Zimbabwe: but who is behind Makoni…
The campaign of Zimbabwe's former finance minister says it has been able to field candidates in most constituencies for the general elections next month...