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Uganda: fourth landmark truce signed, ending Juba talks
Uganda peace process moved closer to its end on Saturday when both government and rebel of the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/M) signed the fourth...
Zimbabwe: Massive Chaos ahead of elections
MASSIVE administrative chaos has marred the run up to March 29 polls raising questions as to whether the elections would be free and fair.
Five...
Zimbabwe: Makoni a prostitute…
President Mugabe has labeled his former finance minister Dr Simba
Makoni a “political prostitute”. Dr Makoni, early this month cut ties with Zanu PF to...
Kenya: new threats
Kenya’s opposition has threatened to call its supporters back into the streets en masse in a week’s time if parliament is not recalled to...
Kenya: Kibaki agrees to power-sharing but….
Mwai Kibaki has agreed to share power... under the country's current constitution and pledged a new constitution within 12 months, signaling a hardening of...
Kenya: US may support civil society to “check” Kibaki
The US Monday warned that failure to strike an accord to end the political crisis in Kenya would push the US to support the...
Zimbabwe: Short profiles of presidential hopefuls
The Countdown to the Zimbabwe elections, marked for March 29, 2008, is on. Zimbabweans are getting prepared to hit the polls to elect a...
US pressures Kenya
Visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has sent the strongest warning yet that Washington would only do business with a legitimately constituted government...
Kenya opposes President Bush’s power-sharing proposal
Kenyan government has thrown new obstacles to a power-sh aring accord expected to be reached on Tuesday, saying US proposals for a coalition government...
Kenya: coalition government to implement peace road map
The road map to a comprehensive solution to Kenya's post- election crisis has been rolled up with the formation of an international panel of...
Zimbabwe: Four Candidates to battle for presidency
Three opposition politicians in Zimbabwe on Friday registered to take on President Mugabe in a 29 March poll expected to be the toughest the...
Zimbabwe: three election candidates nominated
Friday is the deadline for the registration of candidates nominated by their parties to stand for the March 29 general elections in Zimbabwe. It...
Kenya: A new constitution ahead
Shortly after US president George Bush said that there must be an immediate halt to violence, while calling for justice for the victims of...
Kenyan rivals sign deal to end political deadlock
Kenya's rival political parties have signed a deal to end the country's political impasse which has persisted since the 27 December presidential and parliamentary...
Switzerland considering travel sanctions against Kenyan politicians
Switzerland is planning travel restrictions against Kenyan politicians who may be seen as causing the failure of the African Union (AU) mediation talks to...
Zimbabwe: Makoni versus Mugabe
“it seems that the laws of the country are suspended during elections... people are forced to chant party slogans and produce ruling ZANU PF...
Africa’s Political Rhetoric
I am a neophyte in what concerns the analysis of forms of governments and my colleagues must be glad that this article is finally...
Obama’s thin lead
Barack Obama is gathering momentum in his uninterrupted series of wins and hopes to shoot into a clear lead over rival Hillary Clinton in...
ECOWAS network of electoral commissions formed
Heads of institutions responsible for managing elections in ECOWAS Member States have agreed to set up the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions, as a...
US presidential election – Barack Obama – After Super Tuesday outcomes: an even tighter race
The Super Tuesday of 2008 US presidential, on 5th February, was a crucial day in the race for US presidential election, as the largest...
Yar’Adua’s Boot Camp Reforms: Kicking himself out of office?
Whilst he is combatting political acrobatics, strategically rehearsed and put into practice by Nigerian politicians since time immemorial, to rig elections, through the setting...
Super Tuesday : Barack Obama’s judgement day
It is called tarmac campagne. Barack Obama has litterally been living between two planes since last week, in a race to beat time in...
Barack Obama – The one who could be the first black President of the USA
Son of an African father and a white mother, lawyer from Harvard graduate and Senator of Illinois, Barack Obama who faces Hilary Clinton in...
Kenya: Another MP shot dead
For the second time in 36 hours, an opposition Member of Parliament in Kenya, David Kimutai Too, has been shot dead, Thursday, announced the...
Kenya: Fighting Intensifies After MP’s killing
Naivasha, usually one of the must see sights for tourists in Kenya, has been thrown into days of violent ethnic confrontations. There have been...
Kenya : Kofi Annan wants a lasting solution
Kofi Annan arrived Tuesday eveing in the Kenyan Capital, Nairobi in efforts to find a lasting solution to the bloody ethnic-political crises that has...
2008 will be eventful for Nigeria’s development according to Yar’Adua
Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has promised his compatriots ''a very eventful'' year in the country's development, while asking for cooperation from them to enable...
Oprah Winfrey backs Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey votes for Barack Obama ! Those were her words last Saturday at Des Moines, the Iowa state capital which plays host to...
Zimbabwe’s Attorney-General arrested
Zimbabwe's Attorney-General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele was arrested Thursday for behaviour inconsistent with his office, after he allegedly met a man on a police wanted list...