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Zimbabwe: Wikileaks gives impetus to Mugabe’s anti-MDC rhetoric
The controversial WikiLeaks website which is giving Foreign ministers
headaches world-over has provided Zimbabwe incontrovertible evidence
that USA was collaborating with the MDC to overthrow President...
John Edwards’s wife Elizabeth dies at 61
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, died at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, after a six-year fight with...
Ivory Coast can learn from the parliamentry system of governance
As Côte d'Ivoire is in a unique situation with two presidents of the republic, beyond the short-term analysis of the scourges of the titanic...
Uganda: Museveni and Besigye embark on smear campaign
As the race for the presidential seat gathers momentum ahead of next year's general elections in Uganda, the east African country's two key contestants,...
AU Sends Mbeki to mediate Ivory Coast presidential crisis
Ivory Coast is in political crisis with both of its presidential candidates taking rival oaths of office based on competing election results. Former South...
Ivory Coast President sworn in after controversial election
Ivory Coast's president has been sworn in for another five-year term following a controversial vote that the electoral commission says he lost.
By annulling as...
Ivory Coast vote results overturned; President declared winner
Ivory Coast's Constitutional Council says the country's incumbent president has been re-elected, overturning results from the electoral commission that show the president losing to...
Nigeria: Anti-corruption agency Versus former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has rubbished Nigeria’s lawsuit against him saying it is "entirely baseless." Cheney is implicated in a bribery scandal that...
Ivory Coast: Electoral Commission misses presidential deadline
Ivory Coast's electoral commission has missed its deadline for declaring a winner in the country's presidential election. Those results have been delayed by supporters...
Zimbabwe: Editor released but “dark times are back”
After a 24 hour detention in Harare's Rhodesville police station, a Zimbabwean court has ordered the release of Nevanji Madanhire, editor of a privately...
Nigeria: Battle between military and rebel forces intensifies
Renewed battle between the Nigerian military and rebels of the Niger Delta has intensified. And rebels have alleged that some 100 people, mostly civilians,...
Zimbabwe: Police intimidate journalists ahead of 2011 polls
Zimbabwean police have arrested a second journalist from a private newspaper in as many weeks on charges of publishing an article that undermines confidence...
Of Egyptian pyramids and politics
With the omni-present Pyramids and other historical monuments towering over the northern African country, Egyptians often refer to their country as the land of...
Zimbabwe: Tendai Biti cuts Mugabe’s election budget request
Crucial elections in troubled Zimbabwe are now closer to reality after
Finance minister Tendai Biti on Thursday, November 25 set aside under
Treasury an “unallocated contingency...
The role of tradition in African democracy
“Democracy works only when it has evolved within a specific socio-cultural
environment and fused into the traditional political systems such that it is
seen as an...
Uganda: Museveni uses security to attract northern votes
Although Uganda's incumbent president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni won the past two general and presidential elections of 2001 and 2006, statistics have shown that he...
Southern Africa countries attack Muammar Gaddafi
Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) has expressed concern
that some critical decisions reached by their heads of state are not being implemented as scheduled at...
Madagascar’s sad referendum “joke”
Military officers in Madagascar who declared to take over the government of current president Andry Rajoelina have been arrested. The attempted coup plot which...
South Africa’s cabinet wage bill at all time high
An Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers is awaiting Jacob Zuma’s approval after recommending that South African Vice president Kgalema Motlanthe’s...
Female circumcision and Ugandan politics
Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM) has been condemned by international bodies as an abuse of human rights, a vast majority of people from the...
U.S. could remove Sudan from terror list
The United States has conditioned its willingness to accelerate the process of removing Sudan from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism provided that...
Malawi’s flag war gets support from Catholic Church
Millions of Malawians have recently been seized with the question of the importance of their national flag. Religious and civil society groups in the...
Zimbabwe to suffer food shortages ahead of elections
Non-governmental organizations, which have for the past decade been saviors for starving Zimbabweans, now face a ban on their operations in the build up...
Burma election: ‘Where’s the story?’
Like the old philosophical conundrum about the noise made by a tree falling in a deserted forest, so the upcoming election in Burma raises...
Zimbabwe: South Korean investment agreements “null and void”
Zimbabwe has in the last 18 months experienced countless investment
conferences and international delegations primarily “to explore investment opportunities”. But recent investment agreements between Morgan...
Nigeria’s mass deportations to root out extremism ahead of polls?
The Nigerian government has embarked on massive deportation of illegal immigrants from Chad, Cameroun and Niger due to suspicion that Islamist sects in Nigeria...
Liberia: President’s cabinet sweep divides pundits
A crackdown on corruption in Liberia which sanctioned investigations of some public officials, has led to the dismissal of all but one member of...
South Africa: ANC in panic mode?
Ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa has been unsettled by a massive civil society conference, where plans to set up a new...
Ivory Coast elections peaceful in Abidjan, chaotic in Paris
Sunday's presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire saw more than 5.7 million Ivorians going to the polls. Whilst the electoral process went smoothly in the...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai to take Mugabe to court over GPA abuse
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister has expressed his frustration with what he has described as President Mugabe’s arrogance and announced that his party will "consider taking...