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Guinea: The longest wait for second round presidential polls
The burning down of the warehouse at Camp Samory military barracks in Guinea where voting materials for the upcoming second round presidential elections were...
Beneath the Islamic beards and burqas
The most striking scene in Nick Broomfield's powerful 2007 film Battle for Haditha is not one of violence but a simple love scene. A...
Uganda organizes prayer week ahead of 2011 elections
Uganda Electoral commission has today declared that there will be week of national prayers for the 2011 presidential and general elections.
The Electoral Commission has...
Nigeria: Election timing generates heated debates
Nigerian electoral commission has four months to prepare for presidential, parliamentary and state polls. The electoral commission must put together an entirely new voter...
Nigeria President’s security reshuffle politically motivated?
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has replaced the heads of the Nigerian military, the police force and the intelligence service, four months before presidential elections-...
The historic retreat of African autocrats
Never before had pictures of endless lines of enthusiastic voters in front of polling stations defined Guinea’s international image. But on 27 June —...
Rwanda Peacekeeping: Goodwill or Blackmail?
Human Rights Watch has criticized Rwanda for threatening to withdraw its peacekeepers from African Union/United Nation missions in Sudan, accusing President Paul Kagame's government...
Egypt fights Islamists with TV drama
Television drama has become the latest weapon used by Egypt’s authorities in their confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned group that represents the...
African media: 50 year journey from hell to the voice of democracy
When on 18 March this year the Daily Nation, one of Africa’s biggest and most successful independent newspapers, celebrated its 50th anniversary, Charles Onyango...
Nigeria: President gains political impetus amid north-south politics
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has yet to announce whether or not he intends to run for president come 2011. However, his silence has been...
Nigeria: President’s kidnapped advocate freed
The national chairman of an independent campaign team mobilizing support for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of forthcoming presidential elections has been released just...
Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni to stand in 2011 elections
President Yoweri Museveni has announced his candidature for the chairmanship of Uganda's ruling party National Resistance Movement Party (NRM) and Presidential flag bearer for...
Schooling: Trapped in a web of special interests
Governments world-wide are struggling to solve the problem of deficiencies in their schooling systems. Politicians, teachers, educationists, administrators, employers, parents, politicians, policy analysts...
South Africa: ANC to split?
Former South African president in the aparthied era- FW De Klerk has claimed that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is heading for a...
South Africa’s battle against cowardice
Considering the new wave of xenophobic attacks against black Zimbabweans, some black South Africans now have conceded that they are a brood of insecure,...
Wyclef Jean: Not so Haitian
Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council will not budge despite Wyclef Jean's struggle to appeal its decision not to allow him to run in the country's...
Ghana: Reverend Minister raises the Politico-religious bar
Until two Sundays ago, Ghanaians lived with the delusion that politics can be separated from the other institutions of society, such as religion and...
Madagascar’s uncertain future despite new political deal
Another signature appended to another agreement! The president of the High Transitional Authority (HAT) of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, last Friday signed an agreement to...
Guinea-Bissau: A time for change
The government of Guinea-Bissau, including its military, civil society, political parties and diplomatic corps have been challenged to work together and build a stable...
South Africa: Corruption rife within ANC
In a move that has shocked the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, the head of campaigns Fikile Mbalula has admitted that...
Rwanda attracts mixed feelings over progress
Rwanda’s progress since the genocide of 1994 has been remarkable and is a testament to the people in facing and overcoming staggering challenges, a...
New York Mosque and Obama: A right to have a right?
President Barack Obama would have been better off without this new controversy. A speech he gave last Friday supporting the construction of a mosque...
Nigeria: President gets party accord to run in 2011 elections
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has been given the green light by the Chairman of Nigeria's ruling party- the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)- to run...
Ethiopia: Eritrean group set to overthrow government
A coalition of ten opposition parties from Eritrea have made a resolution to form a parliament in exile at their just ended assembly in...
Former Uganda President and ex U.S. lawyer buried
The first ex-president of Uganda to die within the country, Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa has today been burried at Natete church grave yard near Kampala....
Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan’s power goals
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has outlined an end to the country's power debacle; proposing 700 kilovolts- an estimated 3.5-billion-dollar electricity grid that will reduce...
Rwanda election: Big win for Paul Kagame after vote count
The sitting president of Rwanda and RPF candidate, Paul Kagame, has overwhelimingly won the Rwanda presidential elections, which were held yesterday, by over 90...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s amnesty plea for criminals condemned
The Movement for Democratic Change and human rights activists in Zimbabwe have expressed outrage at President Mugabe's call for amnesty to perpetrators of politically...
Rwanda election free and fair?
In Rwanda, voting polls are set for the second presidential election since the 1994 genocide, and while preparations for the elections have witnessed the...
Rwanda: Free press, post-genocide
Regardless of Rwanda’s presidential election outcome on August 9th, one thing is certain – an independent press will not monitor the election results. ...